Will Guppies, and shrimp, get along with a siamese algae eater?

[Lynn]

Having hair algae problem and was wondering if the Siamese Algae eater will get along with the guppies and shrimp?

[Pookies Aquatics]

Siamese algae eaters are generally peaceful fish and will get along fine with your guppies. It will not get along with the shrimp however and could eat them.

[Pookies Aquatics]

I would get snails. Those would eat the hair algae.

[Lynn]

Thank you.    What type of snails would you recommend?

 

[Alesha]

I have guppies, endlers, snails, shrimp, pygmy chain loaches and Siamese algae eaters and they all get along just find so far. 🙂 I've only had the SAEs for about 3 weeks.

 

[tolstoy21]

I find SAEs extremely effective at hair algae in my experience. In my tank, it’s the only thing to take on the longer threads that have gotten a foot hold and that the snails and Otos won’t touch. But when full grown, I’d imagine an sae might gladly gobble up baby shrimp.

I’ve had cherry shrimp with a very fat adult sae and it seemed to leave them alone, either that or they were just masterful at avoiding it. The key is lots of cover and thick plants for the shrimp  

Other than that, an sae is pretty peaceful with every fish I’ve kept them with, but do have a tendency to  be piggish and hog food when full sized. 

Edited November 5, 2020 by tolstoy21

[tolstoy21]

2 hours ago, Lynn said:

Thank you.    What type of snails would you recommend?

 

My magic algae fighting squadron is a bunch of otos, an sae and ramshorn snails. But really any snail will work. I just like ramshorns.