Good clean up crew setup?

[tbcseod]

I have a 90 gal peaceful display tank with a 40 gal refuge and a 20ish gal sump - heres what I have now for cleaning (its not much but its what came with the set up when I bought it in Dec) a couple blue legged hermits and a couple red leg hermits in the 90 right now along with 2-3 turbo's
I also have a 75 gal tank with a Niggar trigger and a 20ish gal refuge. This tank really has nothing in it as its a new tank that was set up so that I could try to make a nice 90g DT and not have him eating tank mates (like the 2 baby damsels and a small star that I tried to put in the tank a month or so ago......)
Heres what I am thinking of as a crew, and how I plan to divide them up.
Big 20 reef package:
Scarlet Hermit Crab:20 total - 11 in 90g DT, 6 in 40g Ref, 3 in 20g ref
Turbo/Astrea Snail:20 total - 11 in 90g DT, 6 in 40g Ref, 3 in 20g ref
Blueleg Hermit Crab:20 total - 11 in 90 DTg, 6 in 40g Ref, 3 in 20g ref
Emerald Crab:3 total - 2 in 90g DT, 1 in 40g Ref
Cleaner Clam:2 total - 2 90g DT
1 Neon Goby - 90g DT
2 Cleaner Clams - 1 in each Ref
2 Cleaner Shrimps - 1 in 90g DT, 1 in 40g Ref (considering a 3rd one for the small ref)?
1 Brittle Starfish - 90g DT
1 Serpent Starfish - 90g DT
1 50 Empty Hermit Crab Shells
I'd also love to have something in the trigger's tank but everything I see says theres a good chance he will eat it if put in with him (other than other larger fish) so I am also open to possible suggestions for this as well.
Thanks,
~TbcSEOD

 

[mcbdz]

Originally Posted by tbcseod
http:///forum/post/2537307
I have a 90 gal peaceful display tank with a 40 gal refuge and a 20ish gal sump - heres what I have now for cleaning (its not much but its what came with the set up when I bought it in Dec) a couple blue legged hermits and a couple red leg hermits in the 90 right now along with 2-3 turbo's
I also have a 75 gal tank with a Niggar trigger and a 20ish gal refuge. This tank really has nothing in it as its a new tank that was set up so that I could try to make a nice 90g DT and not have him eating tank mates (like the 2 baby damsels and a small star that I tried to put in the tank a month or so ago......)
Heres what I am thinking of as a crew, and how I plan to divide them up.
Big 20 reef package:
Scarlet Hermit Crab:20 total - 11 in 90g DT, 6 in 40g Ref, 3 in 20g ref
Turbo/Astrea Snail:20 total - 11 in 90g DT, 6 in 40g Ref, 3 in 20g ref
Blueleg Hermit Crab:20 total - 11 in 90 DTg, 6 in 40g Ref, 3 in 20g ref
Emerald Crab:3 total - 2 in 90g DT, 1 in 40g Ref
Cleaner Clam:2 total - 2 90g DT
1 Neon Goby - 90g DT
2 Cleaner Clams - 1 in each Ref
2 Cleaner Shrimps - 1 in 90g DT, 1 in 40g Ref (considering a 3rd one for the small ref)?
1 Brittle Starfish - 90g DT
1 Serpent Starfish - 90g DT
1 50 Empty Hermit Crab Shells
I'd also love to have something in the trigger's tank but everything I see says theres a good chance he will eat it if put in with him (other than other larger fish) so I am also open to possible suggestions for this as well.
Thanks,
~TbcSEOD
I would add more of a mixture of snails. Different ones eat different algeas and in different places.

 

[browniebuck]

Get PLENTY of empty hermit shells...but, even that isn't guaranteed to eliminate the eating of your snails for shells by those dadgum blasted hermits. I have dozens of empty hermit shells throughout both of my tanks, do you think that is good enough for my hermits...NOOOOOOOOOO!!! They have to have a meal to go along with their new house (or, they have the meal, then they just leave the shell there). Now, I have about 8-10 total hermits and a total of 2 snails (only because they hide in the sand until the lights go out!!!)
I HATE HERMITS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!