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I'm not in the good or bad camp, but right in the middle. I don't like to see (too many of) them, but I don't mind having them. As said before, they eat dead plants, algae, left over food, detritus and all kind of waste. So in fact, they are useful! I did introduce MTS in my paludarium and black...

If it recently cycled it might perhaps be the case that there is still/again NO2 in your water. With NO2 in the water fish/shrimp lose interest in eating too. If I were you I started testing that first. Or they prefer the algae in your tank. Normally they would anything, flakes, frozen/livefood...

Almost everyone has a few hitchhiker snails. If you've an explosion they must like your tank;) When do snails reproduce? When there is food in oversupply. This can be two things: an algae infested tank or overfeeding (95% of all people overfeed so this one is almost always true). I've two tank...

I feed anything, from spirulina till flakes and cucumber. As long as they are fed no problems here. My L-numbers start eating plants before the Amano do. They are 5-6cm large so no they never get into the intake. I would go for the Amano personally because they are more compatible with larger...

ADA recommends 1 per 5L as well in the beginning. In case of algae problems, they recommend up to 1 per 1L and go down to 1 per 20L if everything goes well. I've about 1 per 10L and without algae you really must keep up the feeding or they start consuming your plants. In times of algae 1 per 5L...

This Tropica article answers your question about the algae eating part. Ease of keeping: both quite strong critters with Cherries breeding in freshwater like guppies and Amano a little tougher but no breeding.

29 here. Had it 32 for almost 2 weeks last summer in my unheated Sewellia, T. micagemmae and CRS tank. No problems whatsoever. I did increases aeration nothing else...

No cherries! My first thought as well!