55g cleaner crew

[tankedmach]

wanted to know if this is was good list for a cleaner crew if any one could help i would appreciate it




Dwarf White Leg Hermit Crabs







20







Blueleg Hermit Crab







20







Emerald Crabs







3







Brittle Starfish







1







Peppermint Shrimp







1







Turbo/Astrea Snail







20







Cleaner Clam







2







Nassarius Snail







10

 

[btldreef]

This looks like one of those prepackaged deals... I hate them.
It all depends on your plans for the tank. Is it going to be a reef, a reef with fish, a fish only? Predominantly soft corals? SPS reef? Aggressive tank? What fish do you want?

 

[tankedmach]

it is one and it was just to get an idea of what i need and its going to be reef and fish i have a coral beauty and clown in there now
coral is going to be slowly added in just wanted a cleaner crew to help the tank out

 

[btldreef]

Honestly, I don't like how many crabs/hermits are in many of those lists, or that you have to add everything at once with those orders. It works better if you stagger your cleaning crew additions. As the bioload of the tank increases, so should the CUC.
I'd do:
2 skunk cleaner shrimp
2 Peppermint shrimp
10 nassarius snails
10 trochus snails
10 astrea snails
1 brittle star (if desired)
2 emerald crabs
10 nerite or cerith snails (or both)
Add a bottle of copepods (great little cleaners)

 

[tankedmach]

okay thank you for the help sounds like a good list much better then that other one i did think there was to many hermits but i didnt know

 

[saltwaterdud3]

I also don't like those pre-packaged deals. There's usually way too many snails and hermits. Almost half or more die soon after you put them in the tank. Like they said, as your tank matures, add more of your clean up crew. I personally like the burrowing clams... and they don't hurt anything. Getting a few critters like cerith snails and burrowing clams will help turn your sand and prevent it from going too anaerobic.
Good luck!

 

[otherunderbrink]

We just got that same CUC order in and we are very pleased with it. It is doing its job! There are a lot of hermits but I think they add activity to to the tank. Wish there were more of the little digger snails and fewer of the others. Our next CUC addition is going to be the cleaner shrimp. Wish we would've added that to our order.