hi everyone colin here and welcome back to another aquarium video today we're going to look
at an algae eater that is not given the respect i think it deserves because it is such an amazing
fish at doing an amazing job eating algae in your aquarium but first of all it must
be said that not all algaes are bad and in fact some algaes are very very good
one of the fresh water algaes that is becoming more and more popular in the aquarium trade is
subwassertang which is a true freshwater algae and i'd rather like this little tuft algae that looks
very very cute as well but a lot of algaes are not ones that you want to have in your tank at all
so the ones that you don't want to have in your tank that's where a good algae
eating fish will come to the rescue and there are none better than a siamese algae eater
but not this one that's one you don't want to have the siamese algae eaters are incredibly good
throughout their entire life eating algae in your aquarium from very small fish
all the way through as they live a very long life this one here is six years old in my aquarium
growing to a pretty big size but as big as they get they still continue to eat algae
just as much when they're bigger and when they're older as when they were younger
their algae eating does not slow down and in fact this particular fish is the hungriest fish i have
in my tank he never ever stops looking for food so the biggest reason the siamese algae eater is
probably the very best algae eating fish you could ever have is because they just don't stop
doesn't matter how big they get doesn't matter how old they are they just eat and eat and eat
and of course a bigger fish will eat even more
than a smaller fish so that means that this one here as you can see is cleaning away is just
doing a fantastic job keeping my aquarium as clean as possible of algaes that i don't want in my tank
so i think these fish don't always get the credit they deserve
they are just a tremendous fish to have in any aquarium even though it's not a particularly
strikingly attractive fish it's not colorful but it's just a fish that should probably be in almost
every aquarium because they're just a very peaceful very gentle fish they go about
their own business they're big enough to go with a whole range of medium to larger fish
and of course they're so gentle and so peaceful that they're ideal for smaller
fish as well they're sort of a fish that'll mix with just about anything
so there probably isn't a better fish that you could have in an aquarium
and the more work that it does the less work that you have to do they do all the hard work for you
so that's the reason why i think that siamese algae eaters are such a tremendous fish they
continue to eat just as much or probably even more algae as they get bigger and as they get older
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