clean up crew questions

keish24

keish24

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i have a few questions about blue hermits. i have read to stock anywhere from 1/gallon to 1/10 gallons. do they mess with corals at all? what is a good number to stock in your experience?
what about emerald crabs? do they ever mess with corals? i have a 90gal tank with 20 gal refuge/sump. would 5 be a good number to get?
do emeralds or blue legs eat hair algea at all?
 
meowzer

meowzer

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Emeralds are supposed to eat hair algae....I like emeralds better than hermits...
If you have hair algae get the 5 emeralds...what do you have for snails....also get some turbos
OHHHH....Sally Light Foot crabs....I have 2...and they never stop eating the stuff...I'm gonna get some more
 
mantisman51

mantisman51

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I have about 200 blue, scarlet and some multi-colored hermits in my 125g reef tank. They don't touch hair algae. A lettuce nudibranch took care of that...then starved
. My emeralds (2) eat the algae between my zoas and shrooms mostly. Never had the emeralds when I had the tiny bit of hair algae. But I did buy some zoas and shrooms with a little hair algae and it was gone in a day or 2. Come to think of it, maybe it was my emeralds.
 
katsafados

katsafados

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Originally Posted by meowzer
http:///forum/post/3125018
Emeralds are supposed to eat hair algae....I like emeralds better than hermits...
If you have hair algae get the 5 emeralds...what do you have for snails....also get some turbos
OHHHH....Sally Light Foot crabs....I have 2...and they never stop eating the stuff...I'm gonna get some more
+1 thats my mom shes very smart!
 
king_neptune

king_neptune

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Originally Posted by meowzer
http:///forum/post/3125018
OHHHH....Sally Light Foot crabs....I have 2...and they never stop eating the stuff...I'm gonna get some more

Ill second that. I don't think mine ever sleeps. All it does is eat. and if I move near it...it eats faster. If I back away, it eats slower. Its a panic eater ^_^
 
meowzer

meowzer

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Originally Posted by King_Neptune
http:///forum/post/3125037
Ill second that. I don't think mine ever sleeps. All it does is eat. and if I move near it...it eats faster. If I back away, it eats slower. Its a panic eater ^_^
I was just saying to my husband yesterday...that they NEVER stop
 
keish24

keish24

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i have a sally lightfoot....it does eat and eat but i pretty much need to completely restock my clean up crew. i am looking to get some astrea snails, nass snails, emeralds, blues legs, a sea hare, and a kole tang. i am just not sure how many of each to get. any suggestions?
 
meowzer

meowzer

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1 seahare, 12 nassarius, 12 astrea, 12 cerith, 1 fighting conch, 4 emerald crabs, and another sally
AND 5 TURBO SNAILS
 
meowzer

meowzer

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Originally Posted by keish24
http:///forum/post/3125066
meozer do you have corals? if so does your sally lightfoot bother them?
YES, I have corals, all different types, and the sally's have not gone near them...They are supposed to be reef/coral safe
 
keish24

keish24

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well i dont have any corals yet and i was just wondering. i have read that they are reef safe but i have also read that they arent because when they get larger they will start eating corals and even attacking fish. i was just curious what your experience had been with them.
 
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