Clean-up crew
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chellie4u2
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dang thats alot of snails, i hope they don't start starving
gmidd
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Originally Posted by Chellie4u2
dang thats alot of snails, i hope they don't start starving
Actually its recommended 1 per 2 gallons. Just make sure its not the Mexican Turbo Snails those are 1 per 10 gallons. I have 5 Turbo's and 10 Astrea Snails, the tank is spotless and they seem to be fine. You can always throw in algea sheets if there is a concern. I want to get 5 to 10 more Nassarius Snail to clean and sift the sand bed.
dang thats alot of snails, i hope they don't start starving
Actually its recommended 1 per 2 gallons. Just make sure its not the Mexican Turbo Snails those are 1 per 10 gallons. I have 5 Turbo's and 10 Astrea Snails, the tank is spotless and they seem to be fine. You can always throw in algea sheets if there is a concern. I want to get 5 to 10 more Nassarius Snail to clean and sift the sand bed.
stanlalee
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I'd keep two of the astrea snails (assuming you dont have large mexican turbo's), get five small nassarius and about three cerith. I'd lose the urchin and emeralds. I'd probably lose a few of the hermits too. I'm not a big fan of excessive clean up crews. at some point wether you know it or not if your sustaining a large clean up crew you are feeding them or masking the route of other problems. I had in my my 30gallon reef had 5 hermits, 2 snails and a cleaner shrimp and the tank was no more worse for wear then when it had 10 atrea snails, 25 hermits, 2 emeralds and a sally lightfoot. After natural selection the numbers dwindled down to a modest amount anyway and remained consist there.
jhawk
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Yeah my tank was brown but starting to look better now didn't know if that was enough or not this is the start of a bigger reef tank just playing with this one till we buy our house sometime next year. All ready have a bigger tank just don't want to try and tear down a 180 reef yet plus need to build something over 500 gallons for whats in the 180.What would be a good fish to put in the 29 gallon tank.