Bottom Fish for a Brackish Tank

[Ulu]

Is there any such thing?

 

[sikoko]

You could do dragon goby or some other type of goby

 

[Ulu]

I need a cleanup fish, but gobys are kinda picky eaters, are they not?

 

[sikoko]

Typically yea I'll look up alternatives

 

[sikoko]

Olive nerite snails would help or maybe ghost shrimp or both. Unless you're keeping puffers

 

[Ulu]

I keep buying nerites but they won't hatch out in 1.010 density. My ghost shrimp were quickly consumed.

Maybe there a suitable marine worm . . .

 

[neutrino]

There are actually some brackish water catfish and even brackish water plecos, most are hard to find in the hobby-- or in the case of the plecos, hard to find them correctly identified. Two that aren't are the coral catfish (Plotosus lineatus) and Columbian Shark. Problem with them, if you don't have a big tank, is both of these get big.

 

[neutrino]

https://www.planetcatfish.com/common/species.php?species_id=700

 

[Ulu]

https://www.planetcatfish.com/common/species.php?species_id=700

Thank you. Yes, they're proper monsters alright, but that would be about 3x the size I need.

 

[Ulu]

I never bought a bottom fish, but playing with the salinity I found the mollies and guppies breeding readily.

The mollies are cleaning up the bottom a lot. The monos are eating off the bottom too now, once I found a food they like a lot.