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So currently I’m thinking about restocking the cuc. It’s month 9 and I’ve so far tried astrea and trochus snails, a fighting conch, blue leg and scarlet hermits, a fire shrimp, and nassarius snails. 2 blue legs, an astrea, 3 trochus, the conch, and shrimp are alive still.
 
what did you start with vs. what do you have now?

any algae issues you’re concern about? does the amount of CUC you have now seem to be doing well at taking care of the algae in your tank?
 
what did you start with vs. what do you have now?

any algae issues you’re concern about? does the amount of CUC you have now seem to be doing well at taking care of the algae in your tank?
So since I’m an idiot lol I accidentally posted that before finishing. I have Diatoms and tiny amounts of hair algae. I like hermits and personally don’t like nassarius. I wanted to try an emerald crab. Or should I forget about an emerald and go hermits? Regardless I was gonna get more snails (like 6).
Thanks
 
The snails will do better on certain algae, I would get some turbo snails they do a great job. Can't hurt to add a bunch of red or blue leg hermits.
If the conch can’t keep up with the sand will the hermits be good enough? And how many should I get?
 
So since I’m an idiot lol I accidentally posted that before finishing. I have Diatoms and tiny amounts of hair algae. I like hermits and personally don’t like nassarius. I wanted to try an emerald crab. Or should I forget about an emerald and go hermits? Regardless I was gonna get more snails (like 6).
Thanks
get nerite, trochus, and cerith snails in regards to the diatoms/HA.

you can increase the number of hermits as well.

the cerith’s will definitely help the conch
 
get nerite, trochus, and cerith snails in regards to the diatoms/HA.

you can increase the number of hermits as well.

the cerith’s will definitely help the conch
About how many hermits do you think would be good?
 
would say for a full CUC, look to have:

1 conch (since you have it already)
1 shrimp (not sure what shrimp you have)
2 astrea snails
4 trochus snails
4 nerite snails
6 blue legged hermit crabs
6 cerith snails

this should be a good start in a “replenished” CUC
 
I have a cerith snails explosion when I got them instead of getting hermit crabs. They breed like crazy and now my tank is filled with them.
 
Free snails? Now I can’t wait
I googled cerith snails and apparently they’re hard to breed in captivity but for some reason I have an explosion of these snails. My trochus snails still haven’t bred even though my male snail let out huge amounts of sperm no eggs or all trochus snails are males.
 
I googled cerith snails and apparently they’re hard to breed in captivity but for some reason I have an explosion of these snails. My trochus snails still haven’t bred even though my male snail let out huge amounts of sperm no eggs or all trochus snails are males.
My astrea did that but he was the last one so it didn’t matter
 

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