does anyone have clean up crew recommendations? I have 3 blue legged hermit crabs but I’ve had to scrub the algae 3x this week alone, I bought a snail but it didn’t make it through the trip from the pet store. Any ideas??
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@CoralThingys
1y
How big is your tank? I have 2 trochus snails, 2 bumble bee snails, 3 nassarius, 3 blue leg hermits and 2 red leg + a tuxedo urchin in my 15gal.
@Soldier_of_GOD
1y
My honest take on this is keep and good amount of a clean up crew. I’m guessing it’s a Fluval 13.5. I would add like 3-5 more hermit crabs, 2 small turbo snails, and 2-3 trochas snails and that’s made my tank amazing and clean
@KS00524398
1y
I love snails and they are typically far more useful than crabs! For cleaning excess food, nassarius snails are perfect. For algae, trochus and especially Mexican turbo snails are excellent! My tiger conch is also a great sandbed cleaner, but it is important to make sure you have an established enough sandbed
@Clint68782
1y
In my 15 gallon Hello Reef tank, I have 3 blue legged, 1 red legged hermits, 2 trochus, 3 Astrea, 4 Nassarius. If I had to do it again, I would have substituted the nassarius with ceriths.
@PassionateReefer
1y
There pretty good I love the app settings
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Hey there, I’d recommend for the glass and back wall: 2-5 nerite snails OR 1-2 trochus And for the sandbed/bottom glass: 1-2 cerith snails And/or A tiger conch I have had good success with the listed animals and highly recommend them. Considering this is a relatively new tank you’d want to see how many you need before going all out, if you get too much and there’s no algea left, some will starve. I recommend you start small and if you need more you can get more 👍 Attached is a picture of a cerith snail
this is so helpful Thank you so much 🙏
Highly recommend the trochus. They can flip themselves back over if they fall. Also the tiger conch. They mow through everything.