Clean Up crew for New 300 Gallon Aquarium

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Jesseliu13

Jesseliu13

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My New 300 gallon aquarium will be coming tomorow (in really crappy weather :/), and i will be adding my 2 Motoro Pair (still Juvies), 3 Arowanas, 2 Clown Knives, 1 Peacock Bass (no idea which kind), african arowana and an ID Shark. These will all be taken from my 125 as my 125 is extremely overstocked... and in the future perhaps a 500 gallon+... What is a good "clean Up" fish i can or should add into the group? I heard silver dollars are good. Are they really? please give some suggestions! :) and one that wont be eaten.
 
I've heard tinfoil barbs are great cleaners....and they're cheap!
 
I think if you see a lot of pieces when they feed, then the small stuff would be eaten by the crew.I have SD very fast and tough.I always see large tinfoils traded in at the LFS...huge.other large barbs would work, T-barbs or lemon barbs

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it would be a mess in that tank without cleaners, just with the motoros alone. you'd either benefit from cleaner fish or alot of current stirring up the bottom to send the poop to your filtration.
ID sharks make a mess too. mine is 18+" and makes a mess alongside my oscar.
no experience with the aros and my bgk is only sitting at 8" or so, so not a ton to share there either.
 
A Giraffe cat would work well they are like running a vacuum 24-7 and would be nice in your 500 when it gets big,they get to be 24 inches or better and will not bother any of your fish very peaceful most the ones I see are about 5 to 6 inches unless you find one that is grown out.
 
xraycer said:
I've heard tinfoil barbs are great cleaners....and they're cheap!
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I have heard tin foils will eat anything including feces :confused: yuck! I wouldn't mind having a few myself as a clean up crew.

I have a CL that I would like to put with my Festae to clean up her scraps but I'm afraid it may get attacked by Lucy (my Festae)

Mommy of 3 babies, 2 fur babies and 12 gilled babies
 
Tin foils are good, except you need bigger ones than pet stores usually stock other wise they won't survive with your stock.

Personally I would just get a couple of medium sized catfish like the bigger synodontus catfish; your upper and middle water columns are occupied already.


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