ilovefishys18
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Hi, I was wondering what is a good bottom dweller/cleaner for a goldfish tank. It is cold water.
Anything helps.
Anything helps.
Thank you.Common plecostomus if the tank is big enough ..
If you want a bottom dweller that's great, but don't expect any fish to be a "cleaner" of any sort. They all poop. They all produce ammonia from their gills (mostly from their gills).Hi, I was wondering what is a good bottom dweller/cleaner for a goldfish tank. It is cold water.
Anything helps.
What size tank are these goldfish in?Hi, I was wondering what is a good bottom dweller/cleaner for a goldfish tank. It is cold water.
Anything helps.
I have a CAE (Chinese algae eater) in with my goldfish and he cleans like a champ, but they are VERY territorial, so you need to have a big tank. Mine is now 50gallons and he mainly keeps to himself but before I had him in a 5 gallon and he was super aggressive. Other options are aquatic snails but they make more mess than they clean up and depending on what kind you get they reproduce like crazy even when there’s only one (so NO apple snails!). Catfish are also options.
Extreme caution with CAE because they seem to like the slime coat on fish (slower and fatter fish and slimy GF are easy targets) and will suck on them, I hear of this often happening.