Clean up crew from reefcleaners.org

[Jackie Blue]

I am looking to purchase a clean up crew for my 75 gallon tank so I emailed what I had to the reefcleaners people my substrate is pretty dirty and here is the list of stuff they sent back to me as a "strong" cleaner package:

80 Dwarf Ceriths
49 Nassarius
10 Limpets
1 Chitons
25 Florida Ceriths
22 Blue Leg Hermits
1 fighting conch

I have never really paid that much attention to having tank cleaners so I don't know if I am suffering from shear number shock (80 is a big number for me) or is this a reasonable order.


Here is my tank set up.

Fish:
1 yellow tailed damsel
1 yellow tang
3 black chromis
2 clown fish
1 purple pseudochromis
1 pink spotted watchman goby
1 lawn mower blenny

Inverts:
1 coral banded shrimp (quite large)
10 hermit crabs (blue and red)
1 sand sifting sea star

Crorals:
grey xenia (frag)
candy cane (frag)
green star pylop
odd mushroom looking thing that has green strands coming out from the top of it.
other polyops that a guy gave to me really cheap because he was setting up a new tank and didn't have room, they were browned out when I got em, just starting to get color.

About 70 lbs of live rock and a deep sand bed.

 

[ludnix]

I would return the sand sifting star to your LFS, they are not successful long term in our tanks.

The order is pretty big, but normal of any site that sells cleaner packages. I would probably just do the 50 of the ceriths and 50 of the nassarius personally, those packages can get pretty expensive.

 

[rort]

Re: Clean up crew from reefcleaners.org

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14678599#post14678599 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Jackie Blue


80 Dwarf Ceriths
49 Nassarius
10 Limpets
1 Chitons
25 Florida Ceriths
22 Blue Leg Hermits
1 fighting conch

My entire cleaning crew is from them except for the 5 HUGE Turbo snails that i purchased at a LFS. They have great customer service!!

It is a lot of stuff BUT the dwar ceriths are SUPER small. I have around 200 in my 150 and they havnt really grown more than the 1/2 inch that I got them as. The nassarius are awesome, the limpets didnt survive in my tank at all. BUT they refunded all my $. I would go with more chitons! They are awesome and dont stop cleaning. I wouldnt go with as many hermits. They sent me a few HUGE ones that wrecked havic in my tank. The fighting conch is a good choice too!

I think it is a good number and you honestly wont see them that much!

my opinion, scrap the limpets (they are terrible shippers), less hermits, more chitons and maybe some larger nassarius? maybe an urchin?

Hope this helps!

 

[rort]

i found that reefcleaners are the cheapest around