Scavenger fish can reach 250 millimeters in length in the right environment, and adults eat a huge amount of food, in addition to eating moss and other algae, but also often to other fish eggs for food, a day can eat 3,000 to 5,000 eggs, but also a large number of devouring fish fry. Meanwhile, because it is an exotic species, it has no natural enemies in the country today and can easily reproduce in large numbers in rivers, which will threaten the survival of local fish and destroy the ecological chain.

Scavenger fish is a common mixed feeding aquarium species, known as the cleaner in the aquarium, because it mainly feeds on underwater garbage, algae, etc., and through their treatment can achieve the role of purifying the water, providing a healthier and cleaner living environment for the other aquarium feeding

Scavenger itself has a long and short life span, not to say that it will necessarily live for a few years, as short as 1 to 2 years The long to 6 years old also have, even longer or shorter life, but all can not be separated from the water environment. Scavengers many causes of death are written with starvation this column, especially adult scavengers eat a lot of food, but the freezing death situation is also there, the environment for the scavengers is the most deadly.