Shrimp Or Snails

[ApistoNut]

Do I use shrimps or snails to keep it nice and clean or even some small corys??

Tank size will be around 50 litres and well filtered with a sand substrate. It will be housing around 50-80 fry

 

[mattyeatsmatts]

Shrimp all the way

 

[Cazgar]

Shrimp are far more entertaining than snails, but you shouldn't rely on them to clean up your tank anymore than snails or bottom dwellers, you still need to do regular maintenance as nothing eats poop

 

[thereverendturtle]

Shrimp are far more entertaining than snails, but you shouldn't rely on them to clean up your tank anymore than snails or bottom dwellers, you still need to do regular maintenance as nothing eats poop

+1 on the maintenance.
I would add MTS and maybe a mystery snail or algae control.

 

[N0body Of The Goat]

Daily 10-20% water changes by you are far better for the fry than adding another critter just to keep the tank nice and clean.

 

[ApistoNut]

hmm ok i have a couple of moss balls to chuck in, i will also do daily water changes but just need something to mop up the unwanted food really

 

[N0body Of The Goat]

A syphon with an induced vacuum.

 

[Cazgar]

Cut back on the food, you can always add more if it's gone in seconds, far better than trying to clean up after

 

[ApistoNut]

i just use sili hose for cleaning the tank, without an enormous attatchment that sucks up more fry than a big mouth bass on goldfish lol

also the tank is lighted with natural daylight, not direct as that will thrive with algae

i hardly feed them alot anyway, just little and often. so you think no other tank mates?

 

[Cazgar]

For a fry tank imo best to have no tank mates

 

[ApistoNut]

ok the tank will be a mix of trip red gold cacatuoides and super red aggasizzis