Cleaner fish

[nir_tza]

Hi guys,
does any of you have some kind of cleaner fish in the breeding tanks, and if so who is the best?
Thanks..

 

[Bilbo]

I dont like using cleaner fish in case they clean up on fry but I would think that an otto might be ok or just use snails.

I have had fry in a tank with some cory fry that were a few weeks older and that worked ok.

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,
I've used Red Cherry Shrimps and MTS (Malaysian Trumpet Snails), although someone else had problems with shrimps eating their Angel Fish fry (I'm not convinced that these were Cherry Shrimps). Otocinclus are fry safe, and I've also had dwarf Cory fry grow out with Apistos.

I got the RCS method from a Killi site, and using MTS was suggested by Ingo Seidel for Plecs.

I usually just leave the female in with the fry now, she does a good job, but you can't keep her with RCS (she will eat them), and she usually removes any MTS from the nest site.

I've also used another Crustacean, Asellus "Water Louse" successfully before I had RCS (the female will also eat these), again I found this on a Killi site.

cheers Darrel

 

[slimbolen99]

I'd stay away from cories. They seem to prey on the apisto fry. Plus, they get beat up pretty good.