What fish suck?

Question

besides plecos and hillstreem loaches

Answer 1

My husband & I currently have 8 tanks going and we have a few bottom feeders, or cleaners (or fish that suck) in each one. We have several varieties of Loaches( I wish I had a Hillstream like you!), which I love, we have a Dojo Loach, Clown Loach & several Yoyo Loaches, as well as a Khuli Loach. We also have a ton of Cory Catfishes, they are hard workers and stay fairly small they come in a variety of colors too. We have a Stripped Raphiel Catfish.  Our Chinese Algea Eaters are popular and cheap & work hard & actually we have noticed that our Rainbow, Red-tailed and Albino Sharks really work on the algea and up keep of the gravel as well. Overall, even though I am partial to Loaches I'd have to say the Cory (Corydoras) do the best job if you are asking because you want one for function vs just having a fish that "sucks". Plus since they stay relatively small so of you have a decent sized tank you can have a little school of them or if you have a small tank you can still have at least a couple and they get along with pretty much any other fish. I'm sure ther are tons of other sucky fish out there but these are what I have.

Answer 2

chinese algea eaters and snails...

Answer 3

Bristlenoses

Answer 4

Otocinclus. Darters.