Golden beard is not scavenger fish, it's heterotypic scaly fish, golden beard is more fragile than scavenger, sucking algae powerful. However, the golden beard it and scavenger fish is very similar, but just like the appearance is very similar, habits of these are not particularly like, first of all, the bearded fish will not grow as big as the scavenger, the big scavenger has more than ten centimeters, or even bigger, bearded fish generally not more than 10 centimeters, so the size of the decision of their food, more favor vegetarian, that is, to eat algae to eat moss will be more diligent.

In short, the golden bearded is not a scavenger, it's a heterotypic scaleless fish, native to South America is mainly distributed in the mild temperament and beautiful appearance of good living, but also for the aquarium to remove the algae of the hands.

The size of the body type also determines the structure of their teeth, more suitable for vegetarian, and will not grow up to nibble on the mucus on the surface of other fish, fish tank inside the tank wall is full of algae, put 2 small bearded into the size of 4-5 centimeters, a few days the tank wall will be very clean, and then you can see the bearded fish stomach are greenish-brown, that is, they ate into the algae and moss.