clean up crew

[Bigdog]

well i added 1 hermit crab 1 snail 1 peppermint shrimp is that to much or not enough whats your thoughts? Also changed my lights to 20 watt 50/50 10,000K power compact was using 20watt daylight are these better?

 

[Trull]

Hi ...
how many gal your tank is it?
For example, for my 10 Gal, I have:
6 astrea snail
6 tectus snail
20 Euplicas snail
10 nasarius snail for sand
4 Blue legs hermits
Bye...

 

[paintballer768]

well i added 1 hermit crab 1 snail 1 peppermint shrimp is that to much or not enough whats your thoughts? Also changed my lights to 20 watt 50/50 10,000K power compact was using 20watt daylight are these better?

What size tank? What kind of lighting did you have before?

For a 10 gallon, Id say like 2 hermits, 2-3 rock/glass dwelling snails, 1-2 nassarius snails, and the pep.

 

[oceanparadise1]

for a ten gallon i would do this

5 blue legs
2 scarlets
7 turbos
5 nassasius
peppermint
and maybe one red star fish

 

[Eklikewhoa]

I don't trust crabs of any kind.

I would do a mix of snails....check out reefcleaners.org.

 

[oceanparadise1]

yea i kinda agree with that as they might eat snails but as far as corals ive never had a problem eklikewhoa what are u talking about in the sense u dont trust them.

 

[Eklikewhoa]

Clumsy, Eat snails, bother corals, Never seen them do anything beneficial for the tank.

 

[oceanparadise1]

mine scavange alot, eating crap off rocks and debirs and help stir up the sand bed

 

[Eklikewhoa]

nassarius does the same and much more efficiently.

 

[robharold]

Check out the prices on this site

www.underwateroutlet.com

As far as crabs the best and safest I have found are the scarlet hermits. I have never seen them outright attack snails and excellent scavengers.

Snails - Definately get a mix of astrea, cerith and nassarius. Maybe throw some trochus and margaritas too.

 

[maroonytunes]

I've had problems with crabs eating snails in my tanks, now I just have snails as they take care of algae on the rocks. So far I have 2 in my 24 gallon nano because its hard to find ones that aren't humongous around here.

 

[Nate82]

hate hermits although cool looking two ate the majority of my snails... mind you when i got these they were a quarter of an inch big.. only 2 months ago stupid left handed hermits go with a mix of snails maybe a conch

 

[Bigdog]

my tank is 5GL.

 

[Nate82]

tagging along now because i just set up a 5.5....