Swordtails Grazing

[tahneen]

I recently got some swordtails and they seem to be grazing on the algae off of my fake plants
they all go up as a group and pick at the plant for a while until they get tired of the current from the internal filter and go somewhere else
so is this normal ?

 

[LauraFrog]

Yep, dead normal. They like eating algae. In fact, they like eating anything. Pigs.

 

[flippajh]

I put some new plants in the tank on Sunday, not sure what some of them were, but the red edged one has been absolutely decimated by my swordtails.