Clean up crew

**Jungle-mania** · 27th Jul 2006, 08:24

I have been feeding my fish with both live and frozen daphnias. Now my hairgrass lawn seem to littered with leftovers. Any recommendation for a cleanup crew without messing up my lawn? Or do you think it is better I just get more fish to eat them up? I normally give 2 cube of frozen dapnias a day, one in the morning and one in the night. Thinking of halving that amount.

**XnSdVd** · 27th Jul 2006, 09:19

Any small shrimp will do. Or if you're feeding experimental i could hand you some pods. Managed to get them breeding again

**Justikanz** · 27th Jul 2006, 09:50

Once you have the plants rooted, any 'clean up' crew is good... Corydoras catfish, shrimps, loaches, bristlenoses, even smaller fishes... It all depends on what you have in your tank now...

Or another way is to reduce feeding.

Or just get a little bit more of what you are keeping now...

**valice** · 27th Jul 2006, 11:13

Originally Posted by Jungle-mania

I have been feeding my fish with both live and frozen daphnias. Now my hairgrass lawn seem to littered with leftovers. Any recommendation for a cleanup crew without messing up my lawn? Or do you think it is better I just get more fish to eat them up? I normally give 2 cube of frozen dapnias a day, one in the morning and one in the night. Thinking of halving that amount.

I prefer to do manual syringe feeding of daphnia to the fishes... this will ensure that the fishes finish up their food before more is added...

A bit like target feeding in the case of marine...

**Jungle-mania** · 27th Jul 2006, 23:18

Originally Posted by XnSdVd

Any small shrimp will do. Or if you're feeding experimental i could hand you some pods. Managed to get them breeding again

Hey, thanks for the offer, might do just that. In fact, I think I will take all of your advice, gives me a bloody good reason to get more fish and shrimps.

Anyway, I feed once in the morning before I head off to work, would it be easier to simply dump my forzen daphnias into a tubiflex worm holder? Just thinking out loud here.