Cleaning routine?

[Rusty91]

I see 2 Oscars, and a Gourami??? I know the Pleco is prob on driftwood, but there is a Gourami in there. Atleast I think it is, cuz I can’t zoom in so well

All other fish are out since yesterday.
Had to keep them for a friend for a couple of weeks. Also there was a green terror which i was able to give away. Got misinformed about size and keeping, some people in here already gave me good advice.

 

[Rusty91]

I would certainly vacuum the surface of the sand at every water change. It is amazing how much accumuluates. The oscars, the pleco and the nerites are all poop-spitting machines. I also like to have some cories (any kind), which are great at digging into the surface layers of the sand, thus reducing greatly the possibility of anoxic pockets to develop. The nerites do a little of that but not as well or to the extent that the cories do, and the pleco simply does not help with that.
The oscars will grow fast, and that pleco looks like an albino common (is it?), eventually reaching about a foot. So you may be good for now but not forever. Good luck!

The albino also was from a friend
I got a common pleco (black). He s currently under the driftwood in this pic, u can not see him