How much cleanup crew do you have

Devonjevon · Mar 14, 2012

I was looking at a company online that exclusively sales reef clean up crews. They had a list of recommendation of the amount of snail to have.

Is it me or is it realistic to have 110 Nassarius snail in a 110 gallon tank? 60 nerite snails and others. 50 blue leg hermit crabs. 22 cerith snails. 6 emerald crabs 3 serpant stars. This list goes on and on.

Seems like to much and definatley more than I currently have.

slugwall · Mar 14, 2012

I have 3 Hermits (MIX) 10 Nassarius 1 Turbo and 2 Cerith in my 55GLH

kemper6120 · Mar 14, 2012

I got 12 nassarius 1 turbo and 7 hermits in my 40 breeder.

palvyre · Mar 14, 2012

I have about 20 blue legged crabs, 20 nerite snails, 20 astrae snails, and 4 emerald crabs in a 92 gallon tank. They all appear healthy and happy. Tank always looks good.

NeveSSL · Mar 14, 2012

110 might be ok, but I'd think 50 to be a much more reasonable number. Everything else sounded ok, but also a little inflated. I would probably do half of what they're suggesting personally.

Brandon

SmyrnaReefer · Mar 14, 2012

which company were you looking at, we occasionally do a group buy through reefcleaners as a club. believe we did one a couple of months ago... maybe we can get another together... i could use some crabs.....

VandyTime · Mar 14, 2012

SmyrnaReefer said:
which company were you looking at, we occasionally do a group buy through reefcleaners as a club. believe we did one a couple of months ago... maybe we can get another together... i could use some crabs.....

Try Dickerson Rd.

_sludgefactory · Mar 14, 2012

I probably have 20 Florida ceriths, 10 nassarius, 20ish bumble bee, 20ish astreas, serpent star, cucumber, tiger conch, a few blue legs and scarlet reef hermits, and 2 mithrax crabs. To be honest though the starfish, the conch and the cucumber weren't really purchased for clean up, I just liked them. That's in my 54.

REEFKEEPER10 · Mar 14, 2012

i have had close to that in my 75 and it made tank care a lot easier but the do die and need to be replenished. the nassarius will keep the sand healthy and clean.

mallorieGgator · Mar 14, 2012

Don't get any serpent stars. They get huge and can eat sleeping fish.

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brahm · Mar 14, 2012

Not much anymore I used to have dozens of snails/crabs. Now I proboly have less then a half dozen of each. They just widdled away after about a year and a half. I would say my main "clean up crew" is not asterna stars. I found a flat worm that was eating most of my snails, the crabs did each other in. I'm sure my wrasses didn't help either.

gmoney243 · Mar 14, 2012

VandyTime said:
Try Dickerson Rd.

really? no one else? ok i will then.

how do you know this?

VandyTime · Mar 14, 2012

gmoney243 said:
really? no one else? ok i will then.

how do you know this?

LoL I heard you can get a whole crew there (not just crabs)for less than $20. But that is just what I heard!

_sludgefactory · Mar 14, 2012

mallorieGgator said:
Don't get any serpent stars. They get huge and can eat sleeping fish.

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No, that's green brittle start fish. Had one of those, till it started eating fish. Lol

_sludgefactory · Mar 14, 2012

I don't do herms any more, except what hasn't died off. They kept stealing food off of my corals.

Devonjevon · Mar 14, 2012

SmyrnaReefer said:
which company were you looking at, we occasionally do a group buy through reefcleaners as a club. believe we did one a couple of months ago... maybe we can get another together... i could use some crabs.....

I was looking at reefscavangers.com

Luckfish · Mar 14, 2012

I started with 100 micro blue legs, 50 snails and 12 emerald crabs in a 180. I find they keep the algae down but can't knock out established/thick sections. There is die off over time so replenishment is required. I periodically pick up the big Mexican turbos but they are a cooler water critter and don't survive long in my tank.

I've had so-so success with Reef2Go. Some things were smaller than expected. I've had better luck with Reeftopia. It's like shopping for groceries. Snails may be cheaper at one but crabs at another.

I'd be in on a group buy.

_sludgefactory · Mar 14, 2012

Check out reefcleaners.org super cheap.

bluwinghawk · Mar 14, 2012

+1 on reefcleaners coming tommorrow made my own crew keep you updated when they come and let you know how they did i think what they suggest to is over kill i guess it all depends on what you want to acomplish and what kind of load you have and than end up with they can work them self out of a job lol