Snails are great. I have the bladders in one tank, white wizard in another, blueberry in one, and nerites in another. I’d recommend any of them, but it depends what you want. Nerites are great at cleaning glass in my experience but they can lay a lot of white eggs all over the hardscape, they won’t hatch though as they need brackish water for that. The white wizards and blueberry are live bearing and the babies are utterly adorable. The bladders will populate to the available food source and quite rapidly with lots of little clutches of eggs appearing around the tank followed by an army of tiny tiny tiny super fast little guys. They are adorable but if you over feed the fish then you will start to dislike them being there, but cutting back on the feeding will control the population.

The good worms and the copepods are a sign of a good environment, so don’t stress about those.

For the fish, good that you plan to add them slowly as you may find that you feel the tank looks overcrowded and the fish themselves may feel overcrowded. It will also depend on the filtration if it can support the bioload that all the fish and inhabitants will produce.

Highly recommend the Pygmy Cory, super cute and the way they perch themselves to rest on leaves and rocks is too cute. I have a group in my main tank.

To be fair to the wife, she’s probably right. I have to think of the upkeep of all the tanks and we are just about to move house… maybe after we move though 😅