Top 4 Aquarium Clean Up Crew for Planted Tanks
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- čas přidán 25. 07. 2024
- Top 4 Aquarium Clean Up Crew for Planted Tanks
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Today we look at my favorite clean up crew for planted fish tanks and aquascapes. I go over the top 4 aquarium community livestock that will help make maintenance a little bit easier.
A clean tank is a stable tank. When people post in forums asking how to deal with algae outbreaks, invariably you will see posts suggesting adding this or that fish to deal with the outbreak. Although effective at dealing with the incidence, it is a poor method because it never addresses the underlying issue that caused the outbreak in the first place. A responsible aquarist should not rely on fish to solve a problem.
A planted tank clean up crew should be used to supplement or augment your good maintenance habits, not replace them.
If applied in this fashion, aquarium clean up crews can HELP keep your tank clean and stable in between your regular maintenance.
My Top 4 clean up crews for a planted tank are.
Shrimp.
Ottocinclus.
Snails.
Corydora.
Any combination of these in a planted tank will help inhibit a myriad of potential issues when paired with regular maintenance.
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Very nice video Kevin
Thank you very much
I've enjoyed the few videos you have out. Very informative. Hope you get back into putting out content.
I wish you a speedy recovery on your hand!
Thanks...almost fully mended...can't wait to get my hands in my tanks more.😊
Nice to have you back Kevin I enjoy your informative videos.
Thanks... sorry for the delay
Hoping your hand is feeling much better & looking forward to new videos!! Great info as always & I enjoy that you cover unique info. Always interesting & not what everyone else does so thank you!!
Thank you. I try to keep a fresh angle as much as i can...tricky sometimes though 😊
thanks to you mate! these videos are so good and super helpful
Thanks. Glad they help. Spread the good word. 😊 cheers
Good to see you back. Appreciated the honesty on the clean crew for the planted aquarium. I love the look of the L series plecos (when you see them...), but nothing replaces the ecosystem health approach of having shrimps, otos, corys and snails for the planted tank.
Thanks as always. The vids should be more consistently rolling out now 😊
Lots of great points made in here. btw that bolbitis i sent you home with is looking good.
Thanks. And yes we have a good plant trade going on between us😊
So sorry to hear about your hand but very glad to see you making videos again. Great video as always. I keep cherry shrimp in all of my tanks and have noticed a big difference in my tanks because of them. I also have Panda Corydoras in most of my bigger display tanks and they both really help out with my heavy handed feeding. My Panda Cory also breed quite readily. I also have snails in all of my tanks. I prefer the bladder/pond snails only because they seem not to breed as much as the Ramshorn. I have Otocinclus in one of my tanks but I'd love to have them in all of my tanks. Thanks for sharing and as always keep doing what you do if it works for you.
Hey thanks... more coming for sure now that my mitt is healed up mostly. And yeah, these little janitors do a great job keeping us lookong good 😊
Hey! I learned a lot from your video's to help me with my own aquarium, so thank you very much! I have only one question. I have 3 of 4 mentioned above in my aquarium except snails... I have clown botia in my tank and they are known to LOVE snails as a meal. Do you know of any snail what does the job 'clean-up' wise and where botia's stay away from? Thanks in advance! Happy holiday's and thank you for all your video's!
Hey. Thanks for watching.. I'm glad they help.
If you have Clowns you are pretty much assured to not be able to keep snails with them. In SOME, very rare instances, fast breeding pond or ramshorn can oit breed the Clowns and you can keep some...but in most cases the Loaches will just keep eating until they are gone. Even bigger snails that Clowns cannot eat outright will get nipped at and picked on until dead. Probably best to not attempt.
What about Corys, dwarf crays, shrimp, ottos, and some snails? Can they play nice together?
In general yes although dwarf crays have been known to munch on shrimp and be nippy at some fish.
What clean up crew would do well in freshwater thats 27°c-32°c and moving river style slow moving water? Also what plants? Should I consider?
That is a warm range...first make sure you have good surface agitation to allow more o2 to enter because high temps limit gaseous solubility.
For river style tanks use long, thin bladed plants like swords, vals, ferns, crypts etc as their shape is adapted to the flow and they should do well at those temps as well.
Ottos, cory and neocaridina shrimp will all do ok at those temps eveb though it is near their upper limits...but again, make sure the surface agitation has a bit of a roll to it to make sure o2 levels remain adequate.
@@n.o.a.h.-northernontarioaq7991 i want a semi-aquatic snake and make a bio-active enclosures for it...
Ah...i don't have much experience with snakes although i think any cleanup crew you put with it would just end up as snacks
@@n.o.a.h.-northernontarioaq7991 i will have a reef portion that the snake cant get to
@@n.o.a.h.-northernontarioaq7991 and the snake wont eat snails at least
can you make a neon tetra breeding video?
I'll put it in the list. It has been some time since I had a neon breeder tank running but i have some spare tanks around so I'll set one up to refresh myself first and then for sure.
Great suggestion!
alot of the vids i see about it are really vague it would be great if you could show us how to breed how to culture some food for em an growth rates would be awesome... thanks dude
For sure... once i remind myself just so i dont mislead anyone...it will be fun
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