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I have a 29 gallon tank with 9 tetra Glo fish what are some good bottom feeders that I can put in with them. I’m only gonna get two because I don’t want the tank to get crowded.
I absolutely love corydoras! They clean very well but they are just super hard to get out of a tank since they are crazy fast (most bottom feeders are).
I totally agree with your last statement about only getting fish that you want to keep. I love my clown pleco even though he just hides in his cave all day and comes out during the wee hours of the night to scavenge. I think it's mostly a matter of my respect of him and that I enjoy watching him find and steal the wafers when I drop them in (usually for only a little while).
@@ameliaskyye I impulse bought a rineloricaria Lancelota. He’s in a 15 gal planted. Barely seem him, but I can’t imagine the point of the tank without him
Great choices of bottom feeders. Can't disagree with any of them. I am very favorable to the kuhli loach. My dad had one when I was a boy and I thought he was the coolest ever. He had it for years. Thanks for sharing 👍🏾
Khuli loaches look so cool but I have never been able to locate a seller of them in the central Texas area. I’ve only been able to find Java loaches. They don’t have the cool striped patterns but virtually act the same. When you get a group of them they are super social and will eat the excess flake food the top fishes leave behind. Mine like to drape themselves over the decorations and “hang out,” you could say. They also do a fantastic job of sifting through the sand substrate and preventing algae buildup on the sand. I love these little guys, they have such a low bio-load too! Can easily get a group of 6 and see virtually no change in your nitrates. Mine are now 3 years old, they didn’t get longer than 3 inches. Want to mention tho if there is an unfortunate death in the tank they will pick the fishy corpse clean until there’s nothing left. One of my juvenile neon tetras developed a crooked-back as it got older and could never keep up with the other neons. Eventually I couldn’t find him, I checked around everywhere but I never found it’s little body.
Another good option along the lines of Geophagus is the Bolivian Ram. Similar sand sifting behavior but in a much smaller package. I also think they're very attractive and love their personalities.
I just added 7 to my tank and my tank is super clean. As a cory myself i love having cory’s in my tank! I got the greens. Great fish and lots of motion.
I totally agree with you on corydoras! There are so many different varieties, and even though they’re bottom feeders, they have such personality. My favorite patterns are Julii and Albino (both of which I own), but I love them all. I would definitely recommend 10/10
The corys I bought a few months ago as super small young are doing great! They love my planted tank. I think corys may be my favorite fish of all time.
I just got into this hobby and I stumbled upon your channel and I have to say, thank you! So much useful info that I was looking for and just an amazing channel! Keep it up and looking forward to more!
I really want to get some Corys. I have a betta female in a 10 gallon tank and I need to liven things up with something that wouldn't be too fragile like shrimp. Corys are just adorable too and seeing them school together is adorable to me. They also come in some very beautiful patterns and colors.
Love these videos Cory I'm very new to the hobby and the tips and advice are brilliant I have a thriving 20gallon now thanks for not being overly complicated so us newbies can understand what you are talking about. Dan form Uk
I might exchange bushynose plecos for shrimp because I haven't kept shrimp...yet; but I totally agree with the list! Juruparis are the best vacuum cleaners and so much fun to watch!
I do love the Dwarf Petricola cats! I've got 4 of them in a 55g planted tank, and they are such happy little guys! People like coming over to my house to see them because for some reason these guys don't hide like most of them usually do. They come out where they can be seen 😁
Cory catfish are my absolute favorite fish. I have 9 tanks and would have more if I wasn't afraid of falling through the floor. I have peppered (my favorite kind), bronze, albino, and pandas.
Great video again Cory! I love the Top 5 series Cory! And I love Corydoras!! WOW you even have a Aquarium Co-Op decoration in a tank at the store! haha! I went to a LFS today and bought new fish, Ameca Splendens and some other. When I came home I saw that the Ameca Splendens died and all the other fish were doing great! So I called the store and next time I get new ones. Do you have Ameca Splendens too? What do you think of them? Easy to breed? I would like to here other peoples experience too! *Keep up the good work and thumbs up!* #FishFam #TacoUnion
I have 9 kuhli loaches and 9 Java loaches in my community planted tank and they are out visible and active 24 / 7 I haven't notice a single bit of nocturnal traits in my loach school lol
My amano shrimp are the sole reason my substrate stays as clean as it does. I have 3 of them in my 29g which works perfectly. They're big enough that nobody really messes with them. The 3 of them and my rubber nose pleco are my little work horses
I raise Discus and warm water New World cichilids, so for the longest time Emerald Cories were my go to. Until I found Sumatran 2 Spot Catfish. Favorite little bottom dweller ever.
Corys are my absolute fave fish I lost some couple months ago but have 3 left but will defo get a couple more there cute funny and really good and cleaning up too but it’s not what I have them for I have one he’s 5 years old he’s gorgeous they all are glad there your fave too ❤️
If you get a Pleco all the cleaning they do will be worth nothing because they produce a consistent amount of waste. I would stick with the Corydoras if I were you.
My two tanks each have a bristlenose pleco and they are awesome to watch! Not big either, especially the albino one in the 12 gallon. The 29 gallon one is healthy and getting big bristles!
My Common placing and my Pakistani Loches along with my Clown Loches do a fantastic cleaning all of them are now about 8 to 12 yrs old tried shrimps many many times but as he said they get eaten up in my tank.I found that the Loches ate among the best cleaners.
I love Geophagus. Too bad I can't have a 5ft tank :p Kuhlii loaches would be my top 1, super funny, peaceful, and good for smaller tanks. Oh, btw, the Corydoras you called julii are actually trilineatus.
Aquarium Co-Op I thought Trilineatus were sometimes called false Julii, and that true Julii were the rare ones in the hobby. I just purchased some that appear to be perfect examples of Trilineatus, very inexpensively.
Trilineatus are abundant in the hobby and will cross breed with most Corydoras! Most pet shops call their Trilineatus 'Julii' so they can jack the price up. Easy way to tell the difference: Trilineatus have squiggles, Julii have defined spots.
I have both cory and kuhli in a same tank kuhli is like ferris wheel all the time and cory is like A puppy go around in me tank with the most friendly batta i ever seen
i have two julii cory cats and one emerald cory. i started with more and would like to get them back up in stock once i reestablish my planted tank. i really love the way they dart around together and don't really mess with anything. i'd like to get some otocinclus and shrimp to tidy up my plants maybe some powder blue dwarf gourami's. but first i gotta replace the frames on my 55 because the old top center brace broke after i tried to repair it with glue and plexiglass
Can you make a budget tank for people who want to get into the hobby where there are some really beautiful fish, a clean up crew, recommened filtration all that? I think seeing what you had, and built it from the ground up would be way amazing.
Kuli loaches and shrimp were always my favorite to keep. I also had a blue loach with orange fins. But he got pretty big, and obese, mostly because he kept eating all other fish their food. He also became more and more agressive over time and kept murdering every fish I tried to add. My response to that was putting him in the aquarium with my rainbow crab as his punishment, weirdly enough that fish lived li ger than my 5 year old rainbow crab. So we gave him.away to other people. I also really recommend freshwater pom pom crabs. They are very active and fun to watch, they're also the most peaceful aquarium crab you can keep. You can even keep them.with shrimp. + they eat algea so that's always a +
This was very good. To be honest, I expected much worse, only because I live in NYC and you always expect some inattentive weirdos who make it a chore to have to shop at the fish store, they who hate their job, and they hate being alive, ANYWAY. They sold me neon tetras, and swore that they weren’t aggressive. They turned out to be more aggressive than my Betta! Are neon tetras generally aggressive? I liked what you said about keeping ALL your fish as pets, and not having a “cleaner fish”.
Neons are generally placid, schooling fish. However they are quick and small so may take an interest in your Betta's long flowing tail. If you don't want your Betta to be ruined you're probably best moving to another tank. Betta's don't need a lot of water, anything 10+ litres is fine.
what's the stripped fish that's in the tank with the blue dream shrimp? I don't often come across fish that I don't know what they are and those have beautiful tails
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Aquarium Co-Op I'd like good bottom feeder for gravel tanks
I have a 29 gallon tank with 9 tetra Glo fish what are some good bottom feeders that I can put in with them. I’m only gonna get two because I don’t want the tank to get crowded.
What's up with the black eye?
albino Corydoras, yoyo loaches, and clown loaches are my fav. first time i saw my yoyo loaches "yoyo" it was so fascinating.
Hi there. Can cory catfish be keep with glofish in a tank? Can I feed them with glofish food?
just now really getting into fish tanks and i hope theres a store near me with a worker like you. im loving your vids man!
I absolutely love corydoras! They clean very well but they are just super hard to get out of a tank since they are crazy fast (most bottom feeders are).
I love Corey cats, they are so simple yet amazing at the same time.
Just A Boi One of my favorite things about them is the way they lineup like cars at a 50s drive in💯❤️😂
I’ve got a backpack with a bunch of corys on it. It wasn’t cheap but it was so worth it
Oh yea yea
Do they eat uneaten food that falls to the bottom of aquarium
Boxing even tho i posted this comment 3 years ago, yes they do eat the food at the bottom
I totally agree with your last statement about only getting fish that you want to keep. I love my clown pleco even though he just hides in his cave all day and comes out during the wee hours of the night to scavenge. I think it's mostly a matter of my respect of him and that I enjoy watching him find and steal the wafers when I drop them in (usually for only a little while).
OpticsVision I agree I got an otocinclus and I got him for cleaning and because they are nice little fish. mine can be so much fun to watch sometimes.
sounds like my flying fox fish
Thank you. My husband doesn’t understand my love for my Raphael striped catfish who is nocturnal and hides in his coral reef all day.
OneStepAbove same lol I have a clown pleco he’s very shy and like yours is nocturnal and only comes out at night
@@ameliaskyye I impulse bought a rineloricaria Lancelota. He’s in a 15 gal planted. Barely seem him, but I can’t imagine the point of the tank without him
1:13 Albino Pleco: Hey I want the spotlight
My most favorite fish is a Mandarinfish because of how much color is has. Love your Channel 🐠🐠🐠💕💕💕
Shrimp all the way baby !!
Shocker Mark. (LOL)
Marks Shrimp Tanks I love shrimp, I only have cherry shrimp as of now though. But my dream shrimp would have to be any type of black shrimp.
Black Rose shrimp are cool and easy to keep apparently :)
Cool, I might try to keep those in that case.
Marks Shrimp Tanks you are everywhere lol
I have an Upsidedown catfish in my 20 Gal community tank. and he is my most favorite fish in the tank. That little guy is awesome.
Great choices of bottom feeders. Can't disagree with any of them. I am very favorable to the kuhli loach. My dad had one when I was a boy and I thought he was the coolest ever. He had it for years. Thanks for sharing 👍🏾
So glad Corys were number one. They're a favourite of mine so knowing they're one of the best bottom-dwelling fish is a bonus!
Number 2!!! Puts up 3 fingers lol
Ikr😂
JDM Yaj 😅😅😅
I can count to potato
Khuli loaches look so cool but I have never been able to locate a seller of them in the central Texas area.
I’ve only been able to find Java loaches. They don’t have the cool striped patterns but virtually act the same. When you get a group of them they are super social and will eat the excess flake food the top fishes leave behind. Mine like to drape themselves over the decorations and “hang out,” you could say. They also do a fantastic job of sifting through the sand substrate and preventing algae buildup on the sand. I love these little guys, they have such a low bio-load too! Can easily get a group of 6 and see virtually no change in your nitrates. Mine are now 3 years old, they didn’t get longer than 3 inches.
Want to mention tho if there is an unfortunate death in the tank they will pick the fishy corpse clean until there’s nothing left. One of my juvenile neon tetras developed a crooked-back as it got older and could never keep up with the other neons. Eventually I couldn’t find him, I checked around everywhere but I never found it’s little body.
I love that no matter how old the video is the information is still relevant.
I love my dojo loachs. They are very interactive and love to be held. One of my favorite bottom dwellers.
I’ll have to check them out. I have blue loaches and want to add another variety.
Another good option along the lines of Geophagus is the Bolivian Ram. Similar sand sifting behavior but in a much smaller package. I also think they're very attractive and love their personalities.
I got 4 pandas on rough volcanic sand, boy they re sturdy. I love when they swim upward to grab those frozen worm in the cone.
I swear you have neon or cardinal tetra in like 80% of your tanks
I just added 7 to my tank and my tank is super clean. As a cory myself i love having cory’s in my tank! I got the greens. Great fish and lots of motion.
I totally agree with you on corydoras! There are so many different varieties, and even though they’re bottom feeders, they have such personality. My favorite patterns are Julii and Albino (both of which I own), but I love them all. I would definitely recommend 10/10
I like sterbai alot too ;)
hi fellow sterbai fan!
Love corydoras. One of my favorites. Thank you for using the common names as well ☺️
The corys I bought a few months ago as super small young are doing great! They love my planted tank. I think corys may be my favorite fish of all time.
I did actually buy some corys as cleaners but they very quickly became my favorites to watch
Just got home from aquarium co-op! I loved it and the two endler-guppies I got!
I’ve got 6 Khuli Loaches and they are so sociable, so active. Gorgeous.
Love the fact he said...sure will find more ...as if on a treasure hunt. ...and doesn't know there are more.
I just got into this hobby and I stumbled upon your channel and I have to say, thank you! So much useful info that I was looking for and just an amazing channel! Keep it up and looking forward to more!
Awesome, don't forget to subscribe as we put out 3 videos a week to help educate ;)
I really want to get some Corys. I have a betta female in a 10 gallon tank and I need to liven things up with something that wouldn't be too fragile like shrimp. Corys are just adorable too and seeing them school together is adorable to me. They also come in some very beautiful patterns and colors.
Love these videos Cory I'm very new to the hobby and the tips and advice are brilliant I have a thriving 20gallon now thanks for not being overly complicated so us newbies can understand what you are talking about. Dan form Uk
Welcome to the hobby! Fun right?
I might exchange bushynose plecos for shrimp because I haven't kept shrimp...yet; but I totally agree with the list! Juruparis are the best vacuum cleaners and so much fun to watch!
Catfish Cave shrimp are the best
I love the list. Geophagus are one of my favorites too! I would put plecos on my list. : -)
I do love the Dwarf Petricola cats! I've got 4 of them in a 55g planted tank, and they are such happy little guys! People like coming over to my house to see them because for some reason these guys don't hide like most of them usually do. They come out where they can be seen 😁
Cory catfish are my absolute favorite fish. I have 9 tanks and would have more if I wasn't afraid of falling through the floor. I have peppered (my favorite kind), bronze, albino, and pandas.
I would love a care video about kuhli loaches!!!!!! I love them but mine are always seen and active unlike so many videos suggest.
I have 6 cory's and I have a panda cory with one eye. I love the little guys.
Great video again Cory!
I love the Top 5 series Cory!
And I love Corydoras!!
WOW you even have a Aquarium Co-Op decoration in a tank at the store! haha!
I went to a LFS today and bought new fish, Ameca Splendens and some other.
When I came home I saw that the Ameca Splendens died and all the other fish were doing great! So I called the store and next time I get new ones.
Do you have Ameca Splendens too? What do you think of them? Easy to breed?
I would like to here other peoples experience too!
*Keep up the good work and thumbs up!*
#FishFam #TacoUnion
I have 9 kuhli loaches and 9 Java loaches in my community planted tank and they are out visible and active 24 / 7 I haven't notice a single bit of nocturnal traits in my loach school lol
My amano shrimp are the sole reason my substrate stays as clean as it does. I have 3 of them in my 29g which works perfectly. They're big enough that nobody really messes with them. The 3 of them and my rubber nose pleco are my little work horses
I love my Cories and loaches. They're wonderful fish. Just got an Asian stone cat, so I'm loving bottom feeders
I have 3 kuhli loach... I definitely need more, like at least 5 more
puppies, babies and corydoras - who doesn't love em?
I can not express well because I do not use English well, but if fish live in such a pretty aquarium, they should be happy!
I love your analogy in the end, it is perfect!
As always, very helpful. Thanks for sharing.
hey Cory! just ordered some easy green and some pre filter sponges. thanks bud. can't wait.
+Chris Diehl thanks for the order!
I raise Discus and warm water New World cichilids, so for the longest time Emerald Cories were my go to. Until I found Sumatran 2 Spot Catfish. Favorite little bottom dweller ever.
I adore Pygmy Corydoras.
Me too. They are great little fish. They tend to swim mid-water more than others too.
Predictable ending there with Cory ranking Cories as number one. Yet another great video! :-)
I love Corydoras I plan on getting maybe 3-4 myself with my new Angelfish community tank :D
You said every basic corydoras except for Emerald Green Corydoras....
Which are the ones I have ;-;
And peppered
@@WealthyDragonMindset Salt & Pepper Corys are the Peppered ones
@@bettinico Peppered vs salt and pepper cory's are two different fish actually
@@d.b9743 Ohh. I never realised!
Emerald green and bronze are the same fish
Corys are just the best!
Corys are my absolute fave fish I lost some couple months ago but have 3 left but will defo get a couple more there cute funny and really good and cleaning up too but it’s not what I have them for I have one he’s 5 years old he’s gorgeous they all are glad there your fave too ❤️
iam the only one who sees when cory say number 2 he out ups 3 fingers up?:P so funny hahaha @3:59 hahaha
My favorite is my Sunset Gourami it cleans the tank so well
I was thinking of getting a brisalnose pleco, but very tempted to get a group of panda Cory's now.... they're very cute!!!
If you get a Pleco all the cleaning they do will be worth nothing because they produce a consistent amount of waste. I would stick with the Corydoras if I were you.
My two tanks each have a bristlenose pleco and they are awesome to watch! Not big either, especially the albino one in the 12 gallon. The 29 gallon one is healthy and getting big bristles!
12 gallons is a bit small for a BN. I do love the albino ones though, I might get myself one when my starlight in fully grown.
What is that gorgeous fish in your blue shrimp tank? I need some!
I just watched this video and I’m trying to find that out also
corydoras are my absolute favorite non Cichlid! They are like little fish puppys
Corydoras are awesome! I also love my Albino Dojo Loach he is a great cleaner and looks cool
My Common placing and my Pakistani Loches along with my Clown Loches do a fantastic cleaning all of them are now about 8 to 12 yrs old tried shrimps many many times but as he said they get eaten up in my tank.I found that the Loches ate among the best cleaners.
wheres the plecos
sams tropics they're poop machines, I guessing that's why they're not in the list
Sam's Animals And Fishing I’m pretty sure plecos arent bottom dwellers but they are bottom feeders
Sam M. Well they're not really bottom dwellers
the common one is the bad one, the others are pretty ok
James Rodden which one is the best one to get as a community tank ? That doesn’t grow as big
I simply have Emerald, Bronze, and Albino Cories, and I have a large school of them and it looks beautiful.
I love Geophagus. Too bad I can't have a 5ft tank :p Kuhlii loaches would be my top 1, super funny, peaceful, and good for smaller tanks.
Oh, btw, the Corydoras you called julii are actually trilineatus.
+DigniTy if we are being technical, they are false triliniatus, actual trilineatus are pretty rare in the hobby
Aquarium Co-Op I thought Trilineatus were sometimes called false Julii, and that true Julii were the rare ones in the hobby. I just purchased some that appear to be perfect examples of Trilineatus, very inexpensively.
Trilineatus are abundant in the hobby and will cross breed with most Corydoras! Most pet shops call their Trilineatus 'Julii' so they can jack the price up. Easy way to tell the difference: Trilineatus have squiggles, Julii have defined spots.
i loved my petricolas! best looking bottom feeder ive ever had
I have both cory and kuhli in a same tank kuhli is like ferris wheel all the time and cory is like A puppy go around in me tank with the most friendly batta i ever seen
Cephalon IO what do you mean by this? Are the kuhlis active and interesting?
All i know is kuhli is not even hide
And yes i love them all
i like the fish who wears a red shirt just like in your thumbnail
I agree mostly but where's the bristle nose pleco on the list??!!!!
The dwarf petricolas are lovely
i have two julii cory cats and one emerald cory. i started with more and would like to get them back up in stock once i reestablish my planted tank. i really love the way they dart around together and don't really mess with anything. i'd like to get some otocinclus and shrimp to tidy up my plants maybe some powder blue dwarf gourami's. but first i gotta replace the frames on my 55 because the old top center brace broke after i tried to repair it with glue and plexiglass
Oh oh... we have 5 baby clown loaches in our 55 gal... I'm predicting larger tanks in our house in the future. 🤔😁
I got a few of the bronze and they do the trick!
Corydoras were my favorite fish as a kid.
Omg, my favorite fish as a kid was an albino Corey cat; I swear I had that fish for like 8 years and nothing I had made it past a year
Love Dwarf Chain Loaches - literally just bought 6 today.... If I can find more in a few weeks, I'll probably go to 12 (60G)
I friggin love clown loaches, but I've never been able to own them due to the size tank I'd have to get :( Sad times
Get yoyo loaches
Were getting a pacostamus soon. I'm so excited!!!
The dog reference at the end was brilliant. Also where snails and otocinclus at!?
+zach thomas perhaps in a different video ;)
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Hello what fish where in the tank with the blue shrimp
I think my Corydora is a Juli
what is the little Yellow Fish it looked like a catfish
Aquarium Co-Op do you have an Instagram
Aquarium Co-Op
Is that your fish store? It's so cool, I always wanted to have my own fish store!
You are a comedian! !!!! #1 what's my name???? Too funny!!!!
i wish freshwater shrimp were legal in my country! i love them so much
Love these top 5 vids learn lots of knowledge from these
Can you make a budget tank for people who want to get into the hobby where there are some really beautiful fish, a clean up crew, recommened filtration all that? I think seeing what you had, and built it from the ground up would be way amazing.
How big is the tank you want to get?
Some nice cheap fish:
- Guppy
- Swordtail
- Molly
Love it, Thanks Co-op!
Ancistrus are my #1 bottom dweller.
Kuli loaches and shrimp were always my favorite to keep. I also had a blue loach with orange fins. But he got pretty big, and obese, mostly because he kept eating all other fish their food. He also became more and more agressive over time and kept murdering every fish I tried to add. My response to that was putting him in the aquarium with my rainbow crab as his punishment, weirdly enough that fish lived li ger than my 5 year old rainbow crab. So we gave him.away to other people. I also really recommend freshwater pom pom crabs. They are very active and fun to watch, they're also the most peaceful aquarium crab you can keep. You can even keep them.with shrimp. + they eat algea so that's always a +
I don't know why the loach got so aggressive btw. I had that exact type of loach for ages. And none of them got so aggressive as that very fat one.
He did lose a lot of weight when he lived with my rainbow crab. Actually enough to get to a healthy weight again
Yeah I have like 4 Corys I got a black light I found like a Electric glow Cory
Learning more about Corydoras. Aren't your leopard Corys actually threestripe Corys?
I love corydoras. Thanks
I love corys they are so cute
This was very good. To be honest, I expected much worse, only because I live in NYC and you always expect some inattentive weirdos who make it a chore to have to shop at the fish store, they who hate their job, and they hate being alive, ANYWAY. They sold me neon tetras, and swore that they weren’t aggressive. They turned out to be more aggressive than my Betta! Are neon tetras generally aggressive? I liked what you said about keeping ALL your fish as pets, and not having a “cleaner fish”.
Neons are generally placid, schooling fish. However they are quick and small so may take an interest in your Betta's long flowing tail. If you don't want your Betta to be ruined you're probably best moving to another tank. Betta's don't need a lot of water, anything 10+ litres is fine.
What fish were in with the blue shrimp?
Gotta get one of those.
Thx
what's the stripped fish that's in the tank with the blue dream shrimp? I don't often come across fish that I don't know what they are and those have beautiful tails
Clown or rocket killifish
you are the man ! thanks for the list!
I love kuhli loaches!
Great video!
Thank you.
Number two ( hold up three fingers) 😂
Hey... could you do a longer video on the lucipinnis, cant find a great deal about them on here?
Cory and cories rock!
Can you do more of these types of videos please