Favourite hermit crab and cleanup crew ?

[Jax7]

What type of hermit crabs do you like and why? Must have members of a reef cleanup crew???

 

[Instigate]

I'm very happy with my Nassarius/Trochus/Cerith/Conch/Emerald Crab mix. I've got baby Trochus and I saw some Nassarius snail eggs on the glass today. Hopefully I get some of those reproducing also. I've seen the Conchs mating but no eggs. The Cerith are laying eggs like crazy but I don't think any are getting past the planktonic stage. Haven't tried any hermits yet but as far as looks the electric blue or dwarf blue legs are my favorites.

 

[Eastlake]

I have 3 or 4 different species of hermits scuttling about my tank and as far as function goes the scarletts are my favorite but they're almost entirely nocturnal so I never see them. My favorite as far as form and function is my Halloween hermit. Sure its a bit of a wrecking ball but it's very pretty, always out on display, and a veritable vacuum cleaner. My other indispensable reef cleaner is the money cowery, these are certainly nocturnal but clean a silly amount of algae every night.

 

[ZoWhat]

My favorite cleanup crew is VODKA.....

Inverts last about 12mos tops before they die and it's a pain-in-the-... to clean out empty shells that go under LR and you can't get to them with your hands

Vodka is a trusty old friend that gets rid of the algae by starving it out

 

[Sorcha2]

Favorite member of my clean up crew is my pom pom crab. He mops up things with his little anemones. He's not as hard a worker as most of the rest of my crew but he's the coolest.

 

[alton]

Scarlets and Zebras, they are more interested in eating algae than killing snails and each other.

 

[Ocelaris]

No hermits, they're little demons who steal food from my LPS and attack snails. I'm not convinced hermits are needed, snails and urchins do a better job of clean up anyways.