Cleanup Crew

Corals placed, cleanup crew and clowns added! Rorschach and George are establishing who’s boss. George is being the perfectly submissive gentleman. 😁

Excited with how it’s coming along! The CUC annihilated the brown crud that was covering the sand bed and rocks in two days. Will I need to supplement feed them? If so, how do I do that?

Last bit is to add my hermit crabs and my royal gramma!

First members of clean up crew

Summer hits and tank maintenance slides. It happens every year — water changes get pushed back, glass goes unwiped, and algae starts creeping in. If you’re going to let anything slip, make sure your cleanup crew is picking up the slack.

Cerith snails are one of the best investments you can make for a low-maintenance tank. They work every layer — substrate, glass, and rockwork — eating detritus, cyano, diatoms, film algae, and leftover food before it can fuel a bloom. They’re nocturnal too, so they’re putting in work while you’re not even looking!

Looking for opinions on final fish to add to my mixed reef tank. I have a 125 gallon (2’x2’x4’) tank. Currently have a quoyi parrot fish, 2 watanabei angels, a magnificent fox face, a mandarin, a Midas blenny, a naoko wrasse, 2 clowns, and a Randal goby. My plan is to add a bristle tooth tang (either a tomini or maybe a Kole tang) and maybe a Bella Rose goby? Or maybe a female mandarin as the male has bee showing off his fins lately. Is this too much? I have a large varied clean up crew, a 40g sump with an over sized skimmer, a lot of media and a Clarissea roller.

New member of the Clean Up Crew! I was told the black spot Foxface will eat bubble algae and they’re doing a great job on hair algae so far. I have plans to upgrade to a 1200 in the next 4-5m so they’ll have more room as they grow.

My current plan is

attempt to save my current corals

get new gear for the tank (wave maker etc etc)

get more clean up crew

then during march, for my birthday i hopefully plan to buy a yasha goby and tiger pistol shrimp and two Ocellaris clownfish

as well as maybe buying a replacement pulsing xenia as the one i bought impulsively has already died unfortunately

This is my first saltwater it's a 10 gallon. I got it in July already set up. I lost my coral already as I'm new and learning. I added to my cleanup crew last month and now I'm debating if I should add coral or just keep it as is.Any ideas?

Seeing a lot of brown filamentous algae in rock work and sand. I ended up over feeding the tank when I was on vacation. Water changes done and manually removed as much as I could. Best clean up crew for these guys?

Copepod cleanup crew on the attack. Mind the dirty glass.

Any tips newer to the hobby.

Tank looks good other than cyano

Corals full extended and looking good

Fish/shrimp/clean up crew good too?

Thanks guys

Got a small clean up crew! My tank finally started getting the uglies and I didn’t want it to get too carried away. 😂 These guys are so fun to watch!

This is Peepers the conch. I just added him to my cleanup crew. I could watch him for hours.