We're looking to round out our 60 gallon lightly planted tank with a fish that cleans plants. We currently have snails, bleeding heart tetras, green corys and hatchetfish in the tank. From what I have been reading the corys are more scavengers than plant cleaners. Can anyone make a suggestion?
Fish to clean plants?
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If your water parameters are good and your tank is fully mature, you could go with otocinclus. Those fish ar good cleaners. Also, whiptail catfishes are good at cleaning the algae from plants.
did you realize there's a section dedicated to aquatic plant questions?
that would be a better place for this post
that would be a better place for this post
Looks like otos will be the way to go. We'd love to go with a red-tail shark but they don't appear to be a good mix for our current fish mix..
We'd like to get something with some color in it..
We'd like to get something with some color in it..
my ottos are always cleaning up the plant leaves so i guess they would be the way to go. neritina snails are great for most types of algea (even gsa!!!)the only thing that sucks about them is that they lay eggs everywhere which are harder to remove then gsa. i would not mind but noone seems to be able to get them to hatch. anyways ottos are pretty cool.
Whiptailed Catfish arent very colorful, but they are very interesting. I find them to be sort of Jurassic.
