Searching for the perfect bottomfeeder.

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I like raphael cats. Spotted stay smaller. They are pretty, stay small, spotted usually <5" striped <10", they are armored so they don't make good meals for other fish, and they are little garbage cans. I do feed mine sinking pellets, but they also help with uneaten food such as flake from my other fish. The big draw back is that they love hiding and need a good hiding place to feel comfortable, and I'm not sure how well they'd do in a planted tank, they may like to dig.
 
i'd get a couple of algae shrimp. on second thought, your red-tail may bother them.
 
definitely some kind of pleco for the actual algae, but i'm personally a fan of dojo weather loaches [i have two], they eat almost anything from the bottom, and most fish don't interfere with them.
 
even corydoras are great. my fish eat all the shrimp i get, but corys are cute and always searching for scraps.
 
No Offense or anything but dont plecos tend to produce ALOT of waste? Or is this just my experience with them? I use to have the plecos that are in my signiture and putted them in my 55g which had 2 penquin 350 running and the gravel before I added them were free of any visible waste and the next morning of adding the plecos the gravel was all covered in this brown long poo which i knew came from the plecos.
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I've got a zodiac (batik) loach, and would definitely recommend one of them. Unlike many other cleaner fish, they aren't nocturnal and are squirreling all over the place almost constantly, sometimes jamming their head down between a few pieces of gravel to pull something out.

Pretty funny fish to watch as well, they hate other things getting near them especially when they are eating something and will chase smaller fish by hopping off the bottom at them. They don't injure anything though, just grumpy little hyperactive things.

Zodiac loaches also have a nice well defined pattern on them that is noticeably different from fish to fish.

Here's a link to it's page on loaches.com http://www.loaches.com/species-index/mesonoemacheilus-triangularis
 
those are pretty nifty. what do you keep them with? i'd like a few, but they stay small...i don't know who would bother them...
 
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