Oxydoras niger VS Megalodoras irwini, pls help!

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planning to add another bottom cleaner:popcorn:, Oxydoras niger VS Megalodoras irwini, which one is better at doing that cleaning work?
any experience/info would be appreciated:D

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seriously? the best bottom cleaner is a python at least once a week. there is so much more to catfish than the common misconception of being tank cleaners. Im trying not to be mean, but catfish are my favorite and you are missing so much by labeling them as tank cleaners.
 
fishlover88;1448609; said:
seriously? the best bottom cleaner is a python at least once a week. there is so much more to catfish than the common misconception of being tank cleaners. Im trying not to be mean, but catfish are my favorite and you are missing so much by labeling them as tank cleaners.

An Oxydoras Niger is definitely no bottom cleaner. It's quite the opposite in fact
 
Well to get truthfull here... Some catfish are Scavengers which by definition kind of makes them tank cleaners, They won't eat all the poop in the tank but they will help to get rid of excess food, algea in some cases and bodies of dead fish in other cases... then you have the preditor catfish which will "clean" your tank as well... of all its inhabitants :D

But almost all Catfish produce so much waste that they really don't qualify as a cleaner LOL
 
well, thank you guys, i mean those who will eat the food scrap left by my asian arowanas and bichirs, no matter if they produce much waste:D
 
well mostly all catfish will just eat whatever excess food is on the substrate then poop it out making it more pollutant lol their like monster pooping machines
 
catfishlover106;1450414; said:
well mostly all catfish will just eat whatever excess food is on the substrate then poop it out making it more pollutant lol their like monster pooping machines


That is so true.
 
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