Clean up crew?
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cprdnick
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I personally would recommend
180 Hermits, scarlet legs preferably, but if you have to mix, do not get blue legs, they work good but are too agressive.
30 Mexican Turbo snails
100 nassarius snails
30 cerith snails
1 queen conch
Some kind of Jawfish
5 emerald crabs
5 cleaner shrimp
May not be accurate, but that's what I would personally get.
180 Hermits, scarlet legs preferably, but if you have to mix, do not get blue legs, they work good but are too agressive.
30 Mexican Turbo snails
100 nassarius snails
30 cerith snails
1 queen conch
Some kind of Jawfish
5 emerald crabs
5 cleaner shrimp
May not be accurate, but that's what I would personally get.
cprdnick
Active Member
Ok, before either one of you go out and get the things I mention, I would suggest also checking a few other opinions as well. Everything I'm naming off is just me doing calculations in my head of what I think would do well for your systems.
For a 55 gallon:
40-60 hermits, same type recommendation as Asbury's
20 Mexican turbo's
40-60 nassarius snails
20 ceriths
1 fighting conch, maybe two but I'm not sure if they get along in pairs
Jawfish
3-5 cleaner shrimp
2-3 emerald crabs
Both of yall could probably bump up the number of cleaner shrimp, these include peppermints, and scarlet cleaners plus some other species.
I would also recommend that both of you look into purchasing a detrivore kit. This will come with many creatures that are beneficial to your sand beds. However look through it first, because some of these kits some with sand SIFTING creatures instead of SHIFTING creatures. When you buy a sifting creature it is sifting trying to find food, which just happens to be the little additional creatures that come with your detrivore kit.
For a 55 gallon:
40-60 hermits, same type recommendation as Asbury's
20 Mexican turbo's
40-60 nassarius snails
20 ceriths
1 fighting conch, maybe two but I'm not sure if they get along in pairs
Jawfish
3-5 cleaner shrimp
2-3 emerald crabs
Both of yall could probably bump up the number of cleaner shrimp, these include peppermints, and scarlet cleaners plus some other species.
I would also recommend that both of you look into purchasing a detrivore kit. This will come with many creatures that are beneficial to your sand beds. However look through it first, because some of these kits some with sand SIFTING creatures instead of SHIFTING creatures. When you buy a sifting creature it is sifting trying to find food, which just happens to be the little additional creatures that come with your detrivore kit.
anubix00
Member
i noticed all these people talk about having 60 hermit crabs in a 55 gallon tank. im new at saltwater but that seems like having waaay too many hermit crabs. are these things really small or something? whats the deal? i have 5 hermit crabs in my 100 gallon right now and i could NOT imagine having 60 of those things in my tank. it just seems like alot of hermits
maverick005
Member
does anyone have a picture of a pod?