Cleaning crew for Predator tank

[dghby]

Hi all, i am looking for ideas on a cleaning crew for my setup.
165 gl with 55gl sump. Currently with a gold head goby for sandsifting. Also has a group of lyretail anthias, 1 male/4 females. Along with a Moroon yellow stripe clownfish, flame hawkfish and a horserace blenny.
Next to be added will be a foxface Lo, a blue spotted puffer, Kole yellow eye tang, sailfin tang and a lavender tang.
After that a flame and a bicolor dwarf angel along with 3 wrasses from the halichoeres species.
and finally joining the tank at the end will be a dogface puffer and Niger trigger.

What is best for a clean up crew for these tankmates. I know it gets limited with the wrasses, puffers and trigger.
Thanks for your help

 

[BMMMW]

Good Luck, stock choices sound fun. I hope it all works out the way you planned.

 

[eatbreakfast]

You have a sifter and tangs. Those will cover a lot of your clean up needs.

 

[dghby]

You have a sifter and tangs. Those will cover a lot of your clean up needs.

Thanks TJ, can I do an urchin

 

[eatbreakfast]

Thanks TJ, can I do an urchin

Probably. Triggerfish can nip the spines down to get at the body to eat the urchin, but I haven't heard of a puffer doing that.

 

[Bdog4u2]

You have some fish in there that will put out a lot of waste and thats a lot of fish even for a 165 so i'd probably put a decent cuc in your sump also. i have a few dozen hermits and tons of snails and a few emerald crabs in mine and they do a great job.

 

[eatbreakfast]

You have some fish in there that will put out a lot of waste and thats a lot of fish even for a 165 so i'd probably put a decent cuc in your sump also. i have a few dozen hermits and tons of snails and a few emerald crabs in mine and they do a great job.

Cuc's produce waste too. So rather than adding cuc to the sump, utilizing proper mechanical filtration, such filter socks, sponges, skimmer, and possibly reactors.

Also, I would be wary of cuc getting sucked up or otherwise inhibiting the effectiveness of pumps or other equipment.

 

[Bdog4u2]

Cuc's produce waste too. So rather than adding cuc to the sump, utilizing proper mechanical filtration, such filter socks, sponges, skimmer, and possibly reactors.

Also, I would be wary of cuc getting sucked up or otherwise inhibiting the effectiveness of pumps or other equipment.

I have strainers blocking all intakes, but my main reason for that is the last time i put a fish in my sump it became sushi

 

[dghby]

Yeah I feel pretty good about the sump. Heavy duty skimmer along with matrix in next chamber and a large floss pad beyond that before the return. With a Niger trigger going in I probably need to stay away from the urchin. I am gonna get some turbo snails, zebra and chestnuts. Maybe some blue leg hermits

 

[eatbreakfast]

A niger isn't the type of trigger that will kill urchins. It will however, eat hermits.