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Algae eater or algivore is a common name for any bottom-dwelling or filter-feeding aquatic animal species that specialize in feeding on algae and phytoplanktons. Algae eaters are important for the fishkeeping hobby and many are commonly kept by aquarium hobbyists to improve water quality.[1] They are also important primary consumers that relay the biomass and energy from photosynthetic autotrophes up into the food web, as well as protecting the aquatic ecosystem against algae blooms.
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Algaeeater or algivore is a common name for any bottom-dwelling or filter-feeding aquatic animal species that specialize in feeding on algae and phytoplanktons...
trade. Its common names include honey sucker, sucking loach and Chinese algaeeater. G. aymonieri is found in the Chao Phraya basin, northern Malay Peninsula...
freshwater mountain streams. The species in this genus are commonly called "algaeeaters". They hold on to fixed objects using a sucker-like mouth, and, despite...
algae", BBA for short) is a particular nuisance in aquaria, since most algaeeater fish and invertebrates avoid it. J.B. Bory de Saint-Vincent named the...
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and P. pardalis are both known as common plecos and are widely sold as algaeeaters. However, most of them grow too large to be housed in an average home...
catfish (genus Heteropneustes) Alaska blackfish Albacore Alewife Alfonsino Algaeeater (numerous species that are not necessarily closely related) Alligatorfish...
(Garra cambodgiensis), also known as stonelapping minnow or false Siamese algaeeater, is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Garra. It lives in Southeast...
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is typically sold as an algaeeater as it will constantly scrape the glass, hardscape and substrate of the aquarium for algae with its rasping mouth....
tropical environments and unable to sustain conditions under 50 °F. Algaeeater Pastorino, G.; Darrigan, G. (2011). "Pomacea bridgesii". IUCN Red List...
colloquial speech, crane flies are known as mosquito hawks or "skeeter-eaters", though they do not actually prey on adult mosquitos or other insects....
empty septic tanks and latrines Gyrinocheilus aymonieri, the Chinese algaeeater This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Honey...
of their algae-eating habits, though this role may not be carried out. Loricariid are either vegetarian, omnivore, carnivore or wood-eaters. A great many...
have adapted to a diet very high in algae to the point where one, the American Flag Fish, is a renowned algaeeater in the aquarium, in spite of belonging...
a length of 10 centimetres (3.9 in) SL. D. pulcher is noted to be an algae-eater. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2011). "Dekeyseria pulchra" in...
contain some of the popular aquarium fishes often called "algaeeaters", e.g. the Siamese algae-eater (Crossocheilus siamensis). Labeo – the type genus of...
the result would be algae growth. While there are fishes and invertebrates that could be introduced in the tank to clean up this algae, the ideal solution...
loaches, and relatives," and it includes the suckers (Catostomidae) and algaeeaters (Gyrinocheilidae). Fishes of the latter family, which contains only a...
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