20 gallon cleanup crew advice help!

[xXDaCiscoXx]

So my 20 gallon if finally setup and I've been wanting to setup the cleaning crew up. My local fish store wanted to sell me 10 cerith snails, 10 nerite snails, 5 nassarius snails, 5 trochus snails, 1 turbosnail, and 3 hermit crabs.This sounded like overkill to me since the tank is so new but I might be wrong. Any advice you guys have on this would be great thanks!

 

[cloak]

In a tank that size, maybe two trochus snails & one turbo snail. See how they do for awhile and then adjust the population accordingly. When it comes down to a CUC, less is more sometimes. You don't really want a bunch of janitors in your tank when you think about it.

Nassarius snails are good for the sandbed and all, but what you can do with your finger in about three minutes and what they can do in a month are two different stories. You will be much more efficient at stirring things up. (right before a water change) GL.

 

[TL1000RSquid]

Any Algae other then diatoms in the tank now? If no algae I'd probably do half that for now and then add more once you start putting some fish in. Seems like a lot of nerites for a 20g I'd only do 4 or 5 total.

 

[xXDaCiscoXx]

Thanks for the advice. Oh and Squid your right I only have some diatoms right now and very little algae growth. So with that said do you guys think I should just do like a 2 nassarius 2 trochus. I don't even think I have enough algae for a turbo yet and what the hell is a nerite or cerith and what do they eat?.

 

[Adamw327]

Google is your friend. I have 50+ dwarf ceriths in my 55g, 15 regular ceriths, and 5-10 of a few other species.

Go to reefcleaners.org and check out their packages, they have good reccomendations per tank size

Either way they will reproduce/die off until their population balances with your tank (or so im told, have eggs everyware)

 

[Cayman]

My reefcleaners crew got delayed by the USPS because they (reefcleaners) just use priority mail and much of the crew was dead and the rest too small to do much good.
Looking local.

 

[tatuaje08]

I would do 3 each - hermit, trochus and nass. Skip the turbos, they are a pain because they plow over everything.

 

[silverwolf72]

I try not to kill things as much as possible, if there's nothing to eat their going to die. I have like a 10 gallon CUC in my 120 for about a year now and it seems plenty for the amount of algae I grow in my tank