Clean up crew

[Dandroid]

I rescaped a 10 gallon tank recently and I am needing some stocking ideas for cleaning crew.  It currently houses 5 neon tetras, 1 mystery snail,1 nerite snail and a betta.

 

[Cinnebuns]

By clean up crew do you mean for extra food? Algae?  Because tbh the nerite snail is the best thing you can get for algae and the mystery snail is great for extra food. You could maybe add another nerite or 2 if you wanted. They are pretty small and have a small bioload. 

[Dandroid]

Thanks for the input. I wasn't sure if those 2 snails would be enough. I just wanted to make sure. The tank used to be at my parents house and it got a lot of algae.  Because I was not always there to  keep up the maintenance. 

[CrashBandit05]

What about a few amano shrimp? Nice looking scape btw!

Edited September 3, 2022 by CrashBandit05

[Dandroid]

Thanks. Will amano shrimp eat the plants?

[Odd Duck]

On 9/3/2022 at 7:00 PM, Dandroid said:

Thanks. Will amano shrimp eat the plants?

They won’t eat healthy plants but may pick at microflora and micro fauna on rotting leaves.  They will not harm plants at all, in my experience.

[anitstuk]

If you wanted something to clean up extra food, you could try Kuhli Loaches or Corydoras. 

If you wanted something to clean up extra food and algae, try Cherry or Amano Shrimp. I will say that Amano Shrimp are more affective against algae compared to Cherry Shrimp but I think Cherry Shrimp look nicer. 

Also, Nerite Snails are probably the best type of snail against all types of algae. They get rid of spot algae which is SUPER difficult to get rid of so yeah, they are good. 

 

On 9/4/2022 at 10:00 AM, Dandroid said:

Thanks. Will amano shrimp eat the plants?

Amano Shrimp with eat dead plants and SOMETIMES nibble on live plants. Cherry Shrimp are the same but they don't eat live plants. 

 

Hope this helps!

 

[Cinnebuns]

On 9/3/2022 at 7:08 PM, anitstuk said:

you could try Kuhli Loaches

Won't these eat the snails?  I was gonna suggest them till I thought of that. 

[Odd Duck]

On 9/3/2022 at 9:44 PM, Cinnebuns said:

Won't these eat the snails?  I was gonna suggest them till I thought of that. 

Yes, but only very small snails.

Edited September 4, 2022 by Odd Duck

[anitstuk]

On 9/4/2022 at 12:44 PM, Cinnebuns said:

Won't these eat the snails?  I was gonna suggest them till I thought of that. 

I never realised that they eat snails. I just Googled it and apparently they do! Luckily I don't have them in the same tank.  

[Cinnebuns]

On 9/3/2022 at 9:48 PM, Odd Duck said:

Yes, but only very small snails.

Wouldn't nerites count?  Idk

[Odd Duck]

On 9/3/2022 at 10:18 PM, Cinnebuns said:

Wouldn't nerites count?  Idk

I’ve never seen nerites smaller than about 3/8” across.  My Kuhlis don’t bother anything that size but I’ve got no ramshorns left in their tank and I suspect they may be eating any babies.  I remove the adults from that tank if I spot them, but haven’t removed an adult in several months.