will they won't eat other fish's poop but they will scavenge around eating any leftover crumbs that happen to get away now one thing to mention is that hill stream loaches do eat algae as well as dwarf chain loaches are known for hunting down small snails so i'm gonna have to give them the slight edge when it comes to being a great cleanup crew member for tank mates i would say first off of the bat cory's and loaches they like to be usually in a school of their own species the more the merrier except for maybe hill stream loaches they can get a little bit territorial sometimes the males but yeah really at this size any kind of peaceful community fish that is not going to pick on them or eat them would do fine with them except for dwarf chain lodges obviously they have that problem with eating snails so keep your snails away from them another thing is that they get sometimes loaches get a bad reputation for being really boisterous and at this size i didn't really see my dwarf chain loaches bother anyone but if you did have a slower fish that you are worried might get out competed during meal time or maybe might be stressed out by them rushing around the tank doing their little crazy antics it's just something to be watching out for so i'm going to give this one to corydoras because they're just so peaceful and get them along with pretty much anyone anything except for maybe the smallest fry that would fit into their mouths i definitely want to discuss breeding because albino corey catfish they were my first fish ever to breed in my home aquariums pretty much you just feed them a lot of good food and they get nice and round and plump conditioned for breeding and then there's eggs everywhere and then you can just collect those eggs and then raise up the fry however with loaches i feel like it's a little bit harder you have to do more digging to find out how to breed them at home some species are easier and they're all different techniques too like some of them have like a mesh you need to use some tell you need a rock pile so the fry can escape so i'm gonna give this category to the cory catfish because it just seems like at least anecdotally i hear more success stories of people actually breeding them at home just like with a mono strip and cherry shrimp we have a tie it really does come down to personal preference i would say that corydoras seem to be more popular right now or at least more available in the hobby and so it seems like more people are on team cory but the people on team loach are very passionate about their love for loaches so bottom line if you haven't kept one or the other make sure you keep both corey's and loaches at some point in your hobby totally worth it me personally i love them both so you can see videos i've made about cory catfish and loaches over here depending on your preference take time to enjoy your aquariums and i'll see in the next video
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