I looking for a good clean up crew to help me clean the bottom of my tank. I love clown loaches but I dont have the room. Can anyone suggest a good crew?

Snails will do a nice job or a group of zebra loaches if you like loaches. What else is in the tank? Is this your discus tank?

Yea its my discus tank I forgot to say that. snails are out because I have algecide to keep alge from growing on the bottom of my tank. Flourite sand is great for plants but even better for alge

Cory cats or pictus cats

2 or three pictus cats would complement it well.

I have 5 cory cats now. I'll check out the pictus cats

I love the apple snails here but I don't find any of them to be a very good clean up crew. It's sort of like mowing a field of grass with a blindfold on. They sure let you know if a fish died though. They like to clump up on them in a giant snail ball.

Are you just trying to clean up extra food bits and stuff? Shrimp work pretty good for that.

The algecide kills inverts so those are out. Looking to clean up the extra food bits and stuff.

Instead of using an Algaecide, I recommend picking up a handful of Marimo Balls, and tossing them in.

One of my tanks is right next to one of the turtle enclosures, and the UVB light had the algae go nuts in that tank. I had read somewhere that the balls would thwart algae fairly well, so I got a few, tossed them in and the scrubbed down the really covered parts on the glass. I didn't bother to do the back since the tank was up against a wall, but in about a two week pretty much all the algae was gone.

May be cheaper in the long run than getting the algaecide every week. Though if it were me I'd totally leave the algae on the bottom. It only bugs me when it blocks my view, otherwise I leave it.

I didn't think about that. The alge turns a light brown in a day from the time I notice it and it takes forever to get up with the grav vac. I might get both just because I cant pass up getting a new fish.

So any updates?? What did you get??