Clean up Crew!

[Rafini]

My 20 long grow out is soon to be empty of grower-outers and I wanted to get something in there to help stabilise the pest problem. Right now I have planaria and other organisms thriving aswell as quite a lot of snails that seem to be breeding. Now they don't seem to be harmful in any way but I was wondering what species would be good for clearing up the tank. I was thinking:

Loach of some kind for the snails (Don't feel like messing around with brackish for a puffer)
I need some kind of an surface feeding fish that will eat the organisms living near the top layer.

Pest problem is far from out of control but I would like to use them to feed and thrive some species, any ideas?

 

[Naos1984]

I picked all my MTPs and threw them into my 250 gallon.

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[Rafini]

Hey Naos! its not so much that I want to get rid of them, its just that when the tanks empty I see it as a good natural source of food for fish. so was wondering what would eat it all. that and i don't want to risk infecting my big tank which is pest free. nothing I have in my 225 would touch the snails they are too small and breed like mad

 

[duanes]

All the Madagascan cuchlids of the genus Paretroplus are snail eaters(kieneri stay small), and could be grown out in a 20, and Macropdus paradise fish are planaria eaters.
kieneri

menerambo, but these get to 14"

maculatus slow growers