Adding Inverts, Is there a such as to many?

badfet

Member
My tank just recently finished cyclying( about two weeks now) a 55 gal, wet/dry w/bio balls, 2 402 PH, berlin skimmer, 65 lbs LS, 55 lbs LR. over the weekend I added 2 green chromis, 1 turbo snail, 1 emerald crab, 1 pepermint shrimp, and 6 hermits. In two weeks I want to add 1 of the cleaner packages from this site. My question is will that be to soon and can you have to many inverts in a tank this size?
 

ryebread

Active Member
There is always a possibility of too many inverts in a tank for a couple of reasons. One would be that the inverts do not have enough food to go around resulting in starvation and death. The other would be that many cleaners can be aggressive and they compete with each other as well as fight to the death sometimes. If the tank has just finished cycling then I would probably stick with what you have for a few more weeks or so. If you are going to add to the crew........check out the U-Build It packages and add small groups of clean-up crew. It is best to not add the whole thing at once...........build as you need to. Good luck.
 
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