Putting together good clean up crew
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teckademics
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This is all you need Reef Cleaners| Clean up Crews and Macroalgae
John will build you a custom clean up crew based on exactly what you need and don't need.
Also cheaper then the LFS even after shipping. For example this cost me $30
2 Emrals Crabs
30 Ceriths Snails
12 florida Ceriths Snails
10 Assorted Hermits
12 Nassarius Snails
John will build you a custom clean up crew based on exactly what you need and don't need.
Also cheaper then the LFS even after shipping. For example this cost me $30
2 Emrals Crabs
30 Ceriths Snails
12 florida Ceriths Snails
10 Assorted Hermits
12 Nassarius Snails
Kworker
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Just do yourself a favor, before adding any of these snails check them for Pyramid snails. They killed my astrea snails in the past and I had to go without snails in my tank for several months to hopefully starve them off. If they are on them, give a them a good brushing with a new toothbrush.
Since your using a crushed coral bed the nassarius would not do well. The cerith may work, but they also like to bury themselves in a sand bed.
Charlie Gress
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Nitrate is a gas that evaporates from the water column. So the more surface disruption you have the less nitrates you maintain. You can do this with a sump or circulation pumps, but considering you want to grow macro, I would go the sump route.
This is completely false
Its not too late.... You could put sand in the next time you do a water change. Pull out the rock, put the sand in, put the rock back and top off with saltwater. I prefer to use all sand, but I have had a tank that was 60/40 sand/crushed coral. With medium grade sand you would need 70lbs to make a 4" sandbed. It would also help a great deal to metabolize the nitrate TURNING IT INTO NITROGEN AND OXYGEN. This is where the cycle turns the nitrate into a gas and its expelled.
This is the tank I had sand/crushed coral
This is very true
teckademics
Community Member
What I mean is, if you were 100% honest with him and all he suggest was snails, then that's all you need. I mean you can always add more but John knows his stuff.
This is good stuff
http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/prod_display.cfm?pcatid=16764
this will also work great, but it will need rinsing
http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/prod_display.cfm?pcatid=7321
http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/prod_display.cfm?pcatid=16764
this will also work great, but it will need rinsing
http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/prod_display.cfm?pcatid=7321
teckademics
Community Member
How would the 60/40 hold up over time? Would the sand rise on top over time or would the crushed rise on top? Or would it keep a nice mix? I just recently did a 50/50, half Fiji Live Sand and half Crushed Coral and am fairly curious of how it will turn out long term.
VicD81
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With a DSB you can actually see the the end result of the nitrogen cycle. The microfauna in the sand convert the nitrates into nitrogen gas which you see bubbles slowly escaping the sand and popping at the surface of the water.
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gemini9
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People always tell me how k e is better kr worse than the other but I think imho it has to do with how often you vacuum your substrate. Sand and cc both can be nitrate problems if not cared for.
