Bottom Dwellers

[xcharmanderx421]

My 30 Gallon tank has 10 Tiger barbs swimming at the mid layer, but the bottom still feels like its lacking something.

Whats a good peaceful bottom dwelling fish that's not a pleco. I think they're ugly and 3/4 of the time they're just stuck on the glass anyways...

I have 1 bamboo shrimp that walks around the bottom sometimes, but he's usually hanging onto his driftwood filtering and eating.

 

[darknirvana217]

Porthole flagtail catfish are pretty neat and get about three to four inches. Their flagtail pattern is pretty unusual and look pretty neat in a communtiy tank.

 

[aaronnorth]

Corydoras catfish, there is lots of different types, (bronze, sterbais, albino) stay small at around 2" and are great to watch, keep them in groups of 6+ to get best behaviuor out of them. Easy to keep and hardy.

 

[raptorrex]

banjo cats will go too

 

[xxBarneyxx]

Yeah I would go with a group of cory's as well (great little fish). Alternatives would be khulie loaches but they tend to not be very visable most of the time.

 

[Darkstar]

I think they're ugly and 3/4 of the time they're just stuck on the glass anyways...

well imo and many other peoples opinion they have far more character than tiger barbs and many other community fish.

 

[charlton]

having been in the hobby for long but i recently bought some cory julli's and i think they are my best addition so far !! I've got 6 and they only grow to 2" so i would highly recommend them !!

 

[pastabake]

Yeah Julii's are great.

 

[Sir_lance]

Can I ask how you feed bottom dwellers. I only have flake food and the other fish have eaten this before it reaches the bottom of the tank. I have a red tailed shark. Should I get pellets or something so they fall directly to the bottom?

 

[raptorrex]

Can I ask how you feed bottom dwellers. I only have flake food and the other fish have eaten this before it reaches the bottom of the tank. I have a red tailed shark. Should I get pellets or something so they fall directly to the bottom?

its always worth having some sinking pellets, like shrimp or bloodworm. i drop them in after i put flake in, coz the other fish are busy squabbling over it to notice the pellets.