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- From: fred@mks.com (Fred Kratky)
- Subject: Re: [F] flying fox vs. pl*co
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.195641.14156@mks.com>
- Organization: Mortice Kern Systems Inc., Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
- References: <1993Jan21.180025.2863@news.cs.brandeis.edu> <1993Jan21.224434.13939@bsu-ucs>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:56:41 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.224434.13939@bsu-ucs> 01mbmccabe@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu writes:
- >> I want to purchase either a pl*co or a flying fox to take care of algae in my
- >> 15 gal. (high) freshwater tank. Currently I have 4 leopard danios and 4 serpae
- >> tetras in the tank. Are there big advantages to one versus the other?
- >
- >I may be wrong, but I bet you're talking about a Chinese Algae-eater, rather
- >that a Flying Fox -- they do look similar, but I don't think 'Fox's graze
- >algae. Anywho, if this happens to be the case, I'd say a Chinese Algae-eater
- >would be the best choice. Pleco's eventually get _really_ big (a foot or more)
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Nope. Bristle nose plecos reach 5 to 6 inches (from what I have seen)
- and members of the Pekoltia family ramge from 3 to 6 inches. Both are
- good algae eaters. I never tried the chinese algae eaters.
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