Clean Up Crew Heavy

[fernalfer]

I have a 120 gallon tank that has 2 Turbo Snails, 3 scarlett Hermit crabs, 2 emerald crabs, 4 nassarius snails, and 2 Cleaner shrimp.

Just this little cleanup crew takes care of the algae in my tank leaving just enough so they always have a food source.

I see alot of people adding clean-up crews of 50 plus. Was wondering how others do it. Do you heavily stock a cleanup crew or get just enough to maintain a reef with little algae.

Believe it or not my Cleaner Shrimp and 2 Turbos are the biggest part of my crew. Shrimp work every inch of the tank at night.

Tank is 7 months old.

 

[DracoKat]

You must not feed a lot. Some people tend to feed a lot, so more CUC is neccessary

 

[fernalfer]

You must not feed a lot. Some people tend to feed a lot, so more CUC is neccessary

Not too much. Flake in the morning and frozen mysis and brine shrimp in evening. Once a week I give rods foods frozen mixture and once a week I spot feed corals with reef roids.

 

[Simon Fraser]

I'd love to hear people's cleanup crew metrics as well, we recently started our first marine tank and are trying to decide on cleanup crew size.

 

[TylerS]

I would start small and just keep adding until things are under control.

 

[AdamNC]

29 gallon tank

2 Chestnut Turbos Snails
2 Zebra Turbos Snails
1 Tiger Tail Cucumber, split in 2 after crash
3 Nassarius Snails
1 Emerald Crab, need to add another to keep up with bubble algae
2 Trocus Snails
1 Blood Shrimp
1 Red Leg Hermit

 

[cloak]

I currently have a large Zebra Turbo snail and a few Margarita snails in my 20 gallon tank. Between the Mag-Float and this crew the tank is pretty spotless. I used to have a Scarlet Hermit crab in there too, but it's been MIA for a long time now. There's just no need for anything else right now.