Chinese algae eater attacking! Well trying

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My Chinese algae eater keeps trying to attack my other fish mainly my cichlids (Red breasted flag and Blue Rams).
Obviously its doing no damage just suctioning to the side of them well trying to. Mean while its chasing them all round flat out but generally only at feeding time.

He was a while ago doing the same to my Dwarf Emerald Gourami before it died.
Any ideas why its doing this
 
hmm, i never seen mine do that but i have in a LFS, they said it was cleaning them
 
Thats why i got rid of them, an will never have them again, was told they where S A E' S.
 
They do tend to do that more than actually eating algae, which is why they are pretty much useless as 'algae eaters' compared to bristlenose plecos and others.
 
They are trying to eat the slime coating on those fish. That is why they don't make great aquarium fish. Plus they get to be 10 inches long. The fish store that said it was cleaning other fish was sadly mistaken. A CAE will kill other fish if given the chance. It is lacking in diet and therefore doing what it has to do to survive. I would highly suggest finding a new home for that CAE.
 
My CAE killed two guppies and absolutely shredded my betas fins before I found it a home with my mom. It now lives with a huge kissing gourami and a huge pleco, and it doesn't bother them. Go figure.
 
I was in my local Petsmart yesterday and the manager actually wrote down a problem I pointed out to her. I said you need to get these algea eaters out of the same tank as the gouramis. See how they're trying to latch onto the other fish? She said they're both labeled as semi agressive. I said well you either have to find other tank mates or the gouramis will die like the floater you got there.

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When starting back into the hobby I was sold a "Siamese Algae Eater"--turned out to be a Chinese. Within 36 hours it had killed the 2 rather good sized shubunkin I had--ripped off fins, chunks out, etc. They are actually quite aggressive, and get more so with age. Took his tail back to the store . .
 
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