Clean Up Crew

[fishy4thomas]

Hey there Reef2Reef!,
So I'm about to add a clean up crew in about a week or so to my tank. I have some diatoms, some hair algae, and some bryopsis algae. I have 2 ocellaris clownfish in a 20 gallon tank. In my clean up crew I would like to have a shrimp and a pincushion urchin if possible, with some snails and hermit crabs.
If anyone has any good suggestion on what and how many to add of whatever, please tell me.
Thanks a lot, Thomas

 

[acan-man]

I have a 20 gallon as well. I have 10ish blue leg hermits, 8 smaller turbo snails, and 4 nasarius snails. Depending on how old your tank is, or how much algae and detritus you may want to start with half those numbers and add as needed.

 

[fishy4thomas]

I have a 20 gallon as well. I have 10ish blue leg hermits, 8 smaller turbo snails, and 4 nasarius snails. Depending on how old your tank is, or how much algae and detritus you may want to start with half those numbers and add as needed.

Thanks!

 

[PR_nano]

I also have a 20 gallon with 2 nassarius, 1 Mexican turbo, 3 Cerith, 6 micro bristle star, 1 cleaner shrimp, 2 nerite (rip). *3 berghia nudibranch. Placed an order last week for 2 scarlet hermit, 2 trochus and 1 small conch coming in this week. Hitchhikers a few bristle worms and stomella snails breed in tank over 50 small ones

 

[fishy4thomas]

I also have a 20 gallon with 2 nassarius, 1 Mexican turbo, 3 Cerith, 6 micro bristle star, 1 cleaner shrimp, 2 nerite (rip). *3 berghia nudibranch. Placed an order last week for 2 scarlet hermit, 2 trochus and 1 small conch coming in this week. Hitchhikers a few bristle worms and stomella snails breed in tank over 50 small ones

This looks great. WHaat type of cleaner shrimp did you have? A skunk cleaner shrimp?

 

[PR_nano]

A skunk cleaner shrimp?

Yeah, he spends good amount of time going after the fish to clean them up. The purple firefish is now used to but not so much the pink streak wrasse. He does eat the nassarius eggs and goes after the food if I target feed the corals. Something to keep in mind.

 

[fishy4thomas]

Yeah, he spends good amount of time going after the fish to clean them up. The purple firefish is now used to but not so much the pink streak wrasse. He does eat the nassarius eggs and goes after the food if I target feed the corals. Something to keep in mind.


Thats good to know, thanks!