36 Turbos

[brians_224]

Hi - thanks for your time.

My clean up crew has dwindled to about 12 or 14 misc snails and 15-20 blue legs. Time to reload. Are 36 turbos too many for a 45 gallon mixed reef with lots of LR? I'm battling some sort of algae that I think is related to detritous build up.

 

[dchao]

Variety is better.

Add some Astraea, Nassarius, Cerith .... have fun with these snails.

 

[clown2be]

Use a Turkey baster to blow the detritus out of your rocks. and 36 turbos is a lot for a 45 gallon tank. As said above variety is better. Big skimmer, control feeding, and phosphate removers will help nuisance algae problems.

 

[Blown 346]

Turbos can cause alot of damage as far as knocking over rockwork or corals, since they get big and are clumsy.
For a 45 gallon I would probably only have 2 at the most.
I agre to mix it up with some Astreas, cerith, nassarius snails.

 

[Ti]

I would look towards trying improve H20 quality, instead of buying more snails.
Maybe you're not getting enough flow?

 

[nazzy_19]

Maybe you are having detritius settled in your sump as well. I find it very beneficial to syphon the detritous in my sump.

 

[PatMayo]

I have about 6 snails in my 46 and it is about right. I don't have much of an algae problem at all. Sometimes I think the snails don't have enough to eat. I think the quantity you are thinking about is wayyyy to many.

I'm with the other guys. I would suggest that you find the root cause for the algae. Typically it is overfeeding, not enough water changes, dirty filters and in most cases a combination of the all of those.

Regards,

Pat

 

[Fast Fred]

"Current Tanks: 45 Gallon AGA;DIY:Overflow, EAP Skimmer, Sump/Fuge;50 # LR;2" Southdown"

Just MHO, but I battled algea the entire time I had about 2" of Southdown in my display. I got rid of the sand, and the algae problem went away. I'm now BB and it sure makes it easier to vaccum the crap from the bottom of the tank. No more detritus=No more algae.

 

[brians_224]

Thanks for your posts.

Hi Fast Fred - are you saying that your case was south down related, or ssb vs bb?