Clean-up crew suggestions

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JDogg

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ok i have 3 tanks that need help in the clean-up crew department...

#1 - 75 Gallon Malawi tank
Inhabitants=
3 Cynotilapia afra (Lion's Cove)
2 Yellow Lab: Labidochromis caeruleus (Lion's Cove II)
2 Blue Metriaclima estherae??
3 Snow White Socolofi: Pseudotropheus socolofi "Albino"
1 Male Red Empress Cichlids: Protomelas taeniolatus
1 Featherfin Syno: Synodontis eupterus (i have read that these guys do not get along with plecos :?)

issue-diatoms

#2 - 10 Gallon Dwarf Puffer tank
Inhabitants-
1 Dwarf Puffers: Carinotetraodon travancoricus
1 Kuhli Loach: Pangio kuhlii?
1 "Yoyo" Loach: Botia almorhae?

issues-
i never see the loaches
BGA
the DP only eats frozen bloodworms so i know i have a lot of dissolved organics

#3 - 10 Gallon Apisto Breading tank
inhabitants-
Pair Apistogramma nijsseni
3 guppy: Poecilia reticulata (for dither, hormones and live food :twisted: )
1 Oto: Otocinclus mariae

issue-
to clean up waste, but will not bother apistos or eat eggs
water is kept at very low KH/GH/PH

sooooo.... i need cleaner suggestions for each tank :?

thanks!
 
sounds impossible...

Nothing really eats diatoms, some fish eat BGA, but none would be compatible with puffers, no such thing as a waste eater, but if you mean like leftover food, try some pygmy cories.
 
Geez, this reminds me of "Mission Impossible". Tank #1 is African and has a featherfin, who should be scarfing up leftover food already. Is he spoiled? LOL. Tank #2 has puffers so no snails whatsoever can go in it. Not sure about dwarf plecos though, it may be worth a shot.

I have yet to see any member of a cleanup crew that will not eat eggs carelessly strewn around the tank. This is what they do so Tank #3 is out.
 
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