Scavenger fish

[Bbentler]

Any suggestions on scavengers fishes to eat excess fish food or fish waste?

 

[swegyptian]

Any small fish can help. I like chromis for nabbing little bits that the bigger fish leave behind.

 

[cjvolitan]

depends on what otherfish are in your tank.
my convict blenny used to do a good job of eating what other left behind but hermit crabs and my sally lightfoot crab help alot also.

 

[Absint Reefer]

If you have big mean fish a black fin shark works really well they are actually brackish but do very well in saltwater cleaning the bottom because they don't come to the top to eat

 

[Bbentler]

I have a dog-faced puffer and two clowns in a 75 gallon.

 

[capt. insano]

how about a large red hairy hermit crab - mine does a great job of eating "junk" and my 14" + puffer can't get through his shell

 

[Petstorejunkie]

i am always a fan of sand sifting gobies, and some of them get quite large and tolerant of semi agressive tankmates. my personal fav?... golden head sleeper goby

 

[Petstorejunkie]

i am always a fan of sand sifting gobies, and some of them get quite large and tolerant of semi agressive tankmates. my personal fav?... golden head sleeper goby

 

[capt. insano]

man, I had two of those and never again! yeah, the sift the sand, but spit it all over the rockwork and anything else that is in the tank.

 

[pitt_prodigy]

Yeah.... im going through the same thing with a Dragon (brown barred) Goby. He does a great job at keeping the sand clean..... but he has dusted every rock in my reef with a layer of sand! I spent about a month tryin to catch him to no avail.... to damn quick for the net (+ too many rocks) and cant bait him cause his food source covers the entire bottom of the tank! So i just decided to wait him out.... gotta get old and die sometime.:lol: