What type of bottom feeder fish goes well with Cichlids?
More information is important here, because a lot of this depends on what you mean by bottom feeder. Anything with a downward facing mouth is a bottom feeder, and so are fish like Geophagus cichlids. A Pleco eats off of the bottom, but isn’t really a tank cleaner. I think you mean “Creatures that eats the crud that accumulates on the bottom of the tank”. Some good choices for this include certain catfish, loaches (also anything called a Botia), Chinese algae eaters, and a lot of non-fish options, like shrimp, crayfish, or snails. With any animal in an aquarium, you need to keep in mind things like it’s aggression level, the type of environment it wants, and how it will interact with everything else. Some catfish are very docile, like coryadorus cats, and some are predators that will kill everything in your tank. Some dig a lot and some eat plants. Keep in mind, 20% of all the vertebrate species on Earth are catfish, and they have types that fit every ecological niche in water on the wh
