Ok, so first off let me mention a few things before I go into tank or fish details. I clean my tank weekly with a 30% water change, clean the algae off the tank glass and most of the rocks by hand, and service the filters as needed. The algae I have is soft brown algae that is easy to dispose of. However, it isn't easy to clean from plants or certain rocks.
I am not looking for something that will completely care for all the algae in the tank, I don't need a completely lazy way out, but having something that might scrub some of the larger plants and rocks would be nice.
The tank is a very well cared for and filtrated 29 gallon(planted tank with two whisper 30's, a small hagen 58gph powerhead, and a large air stone at the bottom of the tank). I am currently running a 14w full spectrum t8 bulb on a 10 hour timer, and the tank gets some natural sunlight for a good portion of the day. The hood also has two very powerful 23w full spectrum CFL bulbs on each side of the hood that are on a separate switch and timer(I use those lights when feeding, showing off the tank, taking pictures, or getting new plant bulbs growing.
The current stock list is 2 female cherry barbs(I will be adding a male, I may move the trio to my 10 gallon, not sure yet), 7 Leopard Danios, 6 bronze corys, and 1 south american bumblebee catfish(not an asian! it is currently full grown at about 3.75" and the width of a large pencil).
The tank specs are:
Temperature: 73 degrees
GH PPM: 160
KH PPM: 150
PH: 7.0
I do not want a bristlenose, I had one and returned it to the LFS, the little thing was mean and picked on my corys...not to mention that thing was VERY messy. I want something that stays small, will not have a huge bio load on the tank, and won't harass my corys. I have seen several varieties of small plecos and also some hillstream loaches at my LFS, but it would be nice to get some opinions on what to get.
I would like something small enough and light enough bioload that I can increase the cherry barb school size to 3 or 4, or perhaps increase the size of the danio school(or get another school of some small fish) if i move the cherry barbs to my 10 gallon.
Thanks for your patience with my very long post and thanks in advance for the help!
EDIT: the tank also has Sand for substrate and a piece of Malaysian Driftwood (probably doesn't matter, but forgot to mention it).
I am not looking for something that will completely care for all the algae in the tank, I don't need a completely lazy way out, but having something that might scrub some of the larger plants and rocks would be nice.
The tank is a very well cared for and filtrated 29 gallon(planted tank with two whisper 30's, a small hagen 58gph powerhead, and a large air stone at the bottom of the tank). I am currently running a 14w full spectrum t8 bulb on a 10 hour timer, and the tank gets some natural sunlight for a good portion of the day. The hood also has two very powerful 23w full spectrum CFL bulbs on each side of the hood that are on a separate switch and timer(I use those lights when feeding, showing off the tank, taking pictures, or getting new plant bulbs growing.
The current stock list is 2 female cherry barbs(I will be adding a male, I may move the trio to my 10 gallon, not sure yet), 7 Leopard Danios, 6 bronze corys, and 1 south american bumblebee catfish(not an asian! it is currently full grown at about 3.75" and the width of a large pencil).
The tank specs are:
Temperature: 73 degrees
GH PPM: 160
KH PPM: 150
PH: 7.0
I do not want a bristlenose, I had one and returned it to the LFS, the little thing was mean and picked on my corys...not to mention that thing was VERY messy. I want something that stays small, will not have a huge bio load on the tank, and won't harass my corys. I have seen several varieties of small plecos and also some hillstream loaches at my LFS, but it would be nice to get some opinions on what to get.
I would like something small enough and light enough bioload that I can increase the cherry barb school size to 3 or 4, or perhaps increase the size of the danio school(or get another school of some small fish) if i move the cherry barbs to my 10 gallon.
Thanks for your patience with my very long post and thanks in advance for the help!
EDIT: the tank also has Sand for substrate and a piece of Malaysian Driftwood (probably doesn't matter, but forgot to mention it).