Which mobile invert do you consider your work horse?

revhtree · May 22, 2013

Which mobile invert do you consider your work horse and one you wouldn't have a tank without?

ritter6788 · May 22, 2013

Anything I buy that is supposed to do a job never does. Lol

Snails, hermits, crabs, fish never eat what they are supposed to or clean what they are supposed to.

Doom616 · May 22, 2013

ritter6788 said:
Anything I buy that is supposed to do a job never does. Lol

Snails, hermits, crabs, fish never eat what they are supposed to or clean what they are supposed to.

Agreed. My hermits spend their time murdering my snails. Meanwhile my cleaner shrimp spends its time stealing food from the corals. :banghead:

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bct15 · May 22, 2013

Mini brittle sea stars seem to do a good job at keeping detritus down, I didn't purposely add them but I have a ton now and will probably always transfer some to each of my tanks.

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JOANN · May 22, 2013

Doom616 said:
Agreed. My hermits spend their time murdering my snails. Meanwhile my cleaner shrimp spends its time stealing food from the corals. :banghead:

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Could not have said that better myself! Agreed

k2parkstar · May 22, 2013

Doom616 said:
Agreed. My hermits spend their time murdering my snails. Meanwhile my cleaner shrimp spends its time stealing food from the corals. :banghead:

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Same here. I'm the only workhorse for my tank.

eliramos · May 22, 2013

lol the bristleworms that no one wanted! they pull some serious weight haha

-Logzor · May 22, 2013

Blood Shrimp - They are highly mobile, long lived (mine is at least 7 years old), and eat any extra scraps of food very quickly. They don't bother corals, don't get stuck (hermits/snails fall and get stuck in acro colonies), and don't typically get eaten or bothered by fish.

46gReef · May 22, 2013

k2parkstar said:
Same here. I'm the only workhorse for my tank.

Agreed!

glb · May 22, 2013

My hermit crabs and emerald crabs keep my live rock clean. And my sand-sifting starfish takes care of the live sand.

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gooch · May 22, 2013

Mexican turbo snails. Bulldozers for sure but they do a god job.

PaulKreider · May 22, 2013

+1 on brittle stars, got them as hitchhiker now theres dozens. Nerite snails always flip over, crabs kill the snail, my best is probably lawnmower blenny. Hes a tank!

evolved · May 23, 2013

Abalone. But you really need a 150g+ to support them.

Urchins can do some nice work too.

cdness · May 23, 2013

Well invert makes it difficult... I'd say my trochus snails have been my best. However I have some hermits and some other snails, but they don't seem to do much other than walk around endlessly...

If you include vertibrates I'd have to say my wife

However I didn't buy her, but she does have a ring... She cleans more algae off the sand and rocks than the CUC ever has

jeffblly · May 23, 2013

gooch said:
Mexican turbo snails. Bulldozers for sure but they do a god job.

I agree. They clean the rocks better than the ceriths, nerites and astrea I have. All my corals are glued now so no more bulldozing.

Ozzy · May 23, 2013

I would say my Candy Cane Pistol Shrimp..he is always working away pushing sand and making his and the YWG burrow bigger, so in that aspect he keeps the sand stirred in his area lol.

But I would be agree with the turbo snail for sure.