need to find a good cleaner to put with my rays

[jwong1024]

Some very good ideas, but I think I am just gonna go with a school of loaches. How many would do 3? 4?

 

[jwong1024]

Oh BTW I needed uneaten food to be removed. Not that I over feed, but the smaller female marble sometimes does not eat all her krill. The 2 bigger rays get market shrimp, still trying to get the smaller one on shrimp.

 

[FishDog]

I would worry about the loaches and the rays sharing the same space with the loaches bothering the rays. I thought about balas for my tank because they don't lay on the bottom.

 

[biggfish]

I use balas and silver dollars. I need an algea eater though. The rays ate all the bristle nose I kept with them previously. They lasted about a year before the rays figured out they could eat them. All down hill from there.

 

[Florencebigfish]

Ive got 2 10" syno decorurs to clean up the leftovers in my pond. Do a pretty good job and they dont bother the rays.

 

[trevinoboy]

i would recomend a suncatfish or a channel catfish

 

[Nic]

and personally i would go with a frontosa over the loaches... and it be easier to drop a few less pieces in there is she doesnt eat all her food... but logical thinking isnt always the best choice... do a search on your loach idea... there was a guy who had a ray eat one got stuck in it and killed his ray...

 

[Ade]

Another member had to sell a school of 25 clown loaches recently, as his rays were picking them off.

 

[Bogwoodbruce]

If you go for frontosa go for some tank bred burundi as these will be much hardier, wild caught frontosa need to have a high and stable PH and KH and a lot of work put into them as we've found at work.

 

[Jamieishard]

yeah i have been throwing ideas around for cleanup too im probably going to get a few geos...see how that goes... probably going to put a few discus in my smapper rays tank....hmmmm decisions decisions.