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+1 on Trochus snails, they are one of the few snails that can correct themselves, and they spread like rabbits in my tank. I like getting tiny blue legged hermits, they can get between more spots and cracks, eat almost anything, and imo have a more voracious appetite than bigger hermits.
tomtom2245
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I've had luck with cerith and nassarius snails. I may never do hermits again. Every time I try they become snail killing machines and climb all over my corals while in target feeding them and steal the food from them.
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I like Emerald crabs myself...
Jizu Puentes
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Nassarius snails+ tiger conchs for the sand bed
Trochus and turbo for the walls
Stomatella snails for the rocks and everything else
Trochus and turbo for the walls
Stomatella snails for the rocks and everything else
I love my fighting conch 
He keeps my sandbed looking good!!
My cleaner shrimp also dose a great job of eating any leftovers that make it to the bottom of the tank.
I personally don't like bigger crabs like emerald and Sally light foot because I feel that they can be kind of destructive. I had an emerald crab eat some of my zoas
I also had a pepermint shrimp eat my trumpet coral. Some are fine and some aren't. Same with crabs. Some people think they are awesome, and some people hate them.
He keeps my sandbed looking good!! My cleaner shrimp also dose a great job of eating any leftovers that make it to the bottom of the tank.
I personally don't like bigger crabs like emerald and Sally light foot because I feel that they can be kind of destructive. I had an emerald crab eat some of my zoas
I also had a pepermint shrimp eat my trumpet coral. Some are fine and some aren't. Same with crabs. Some people think they are awesome, and some people hate them.
Tristan
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Same. Always happens with my blue leg hermit
Tristan
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Blue tuxedo urchins are the best for rocks and glass. I have one in my 10g and he/she does a really good job. Going to move him soon into my 25g.
I keep Nassarius and Cerith snails in my sandbed, which they share with spaghetti worms. Trochus, Astrea and ninja-star Astrea snails patrol the rocks - though the Trochus really only seem to come out at night. (The ninja-star snails may have more algae growing on their shells than they've eaten!) A few blue and a scarlet hermit are in there, along with a Halloween hermit crab and four emerald crabs. All of those guys seem to prefer film algae, except I think I did see one emerald pop one bubble one time . . . (then again, bubbles seem to have slowed their reproduction rate!) There are two tuxedo urchins in the tank, and it's easy to tell where they've been working, as those rocks are browsed right down to white. They can't get into crevices, though . . . There are a pair each of skunk, blood and peppermint shrimp in the tank, but they seem to rely more on the food handouts than on what they can scrounge from the rock. A kole tang and starry blenny round out the list of cleanup critters, and even so . . . there's plenty of hair algae and Bryopsis to go around. (Actually ... would you consider a flatworm-eating target mandarin, a pair of ruby scooter dragonets and a 'pod-munching orange-back fairy wrasse as honorary cleanuppers?)
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