Clean up crew

Debbiemomma77 · Mar 22, 2014

What would be the best clean up crew for my tank?
Eventually going to get coral and anemones so they must be compatible!

Longnose Hawkfish · Mar 22, 2014

How big is your tank?

Debbiemomma77 · Mar 22, 2014

30 gallon

Longnose Hawkfish · Mar 22, 2014

I think some Nassarius Snails would be great. I also think turbo snails help keep everything clean but don't get to many of those. And if you want to get hermits, I would recommend the blue legged hermit crabs. Cerinth snails work well too

Debbiemomma77 · Mar 22, 2014

How many should I get?

Longnose Hawkfish · Mar 22, 2014

That depends on how big their cleaning job is

Debbiemomma77 · Mar 22, 2014

Well I only have a 4 striped damsel right now but thursday I am getting a yellow tang so I'd rather keep my tank fairly clean

Longnose Hawkfish · Mar 22, 2014

I don't think the yellow tang will like being in a 30 gallon when he gets bigger. They like lots of room to swim. There are lots of different fish options that would look great in your 30 gallon.

Debbiemomma77 · Mar 22, 2014

Well I'm moving in the next month and am planing on getting a bigger tank

Longnose Hawkfish · Mar 22, 2014

If you upgrade to a bigger tank, I recommend giving the damsels back to your LFS. They usually are pretty aggressive. But that will be fun upgrading tanks.

Debbiemomma77 · Mar 22, 2014

I'm going to be keeping my 30 gallon as well so I'm just gonna keep my little terror in there

she isn't as agressive as most damsels she's actually hiding at the moment

Longnose Hawkfish · Mar 22, 2014

That will be cool for them to have their own tank.

and at least the one you have is not that aggressive.

Debbiemomma77 · Mar 22, 2014

No shes sweet

I love my little Damsel her name is Lady

how long have you been doing this?

Longnose Hawkfish · Mar 22, 2014

How long have I been keeping tanks?

Debbiemomma77 · Mar 22, 2014

Yes

I'm very curious

Longnose Hawkfish · Mar 22, 2014

Well, I had a 65 gallon for about four years. That ended when I was on vacation and my power went out and everything died except one cardinal fish. My little brother had a biocube and I put my one fish in there with his clownfish. I took care of my brothers tank for about 3 years and I then bought it from him for 10$. Now it's my tank for about 4 months and I am currently building a stand for a 93 gallon cube.

so about 7 years but only been keeping coral for 4 months.
( I didn't really know what I was doing with my 65 gallon.

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Debbiemomma77 · Mar 22, 2014

It's hard I already ran into an issue. I bought a chocolate chip starfish from a pet store and they told me NOTHING about it and how hard it was to keep! He died a few days ago and killed my firefish.

I was very sad. But I bucked up and got a damsel and she has been doing GREAT! shes a bit shy at times but other then that she is all over the place. She has about 5 hiding spots in my live rock! I want to get her a tank mate!