Clean Up Crew Help

[Jdavis8824]

Hi, I have a 20g nuvo fusion tank. It's 7 months old and I recently had a problem with phosphates. I bought a reactor with Rowaphos and got the levels down but now my rocks are leaching phosphates and diatoms are growing very thickley on my rocks and I also have brown algae and film on the glass. Right now I have:

5 Blue Hermits
3 Trochus Snails
1 Female Emerald
1 Nassurius Snail
2 Clowns

I've taken steps to reduce the phosphates but I need more CUC to take care of my algae while that plays out. I was thinking more Trochus and adding Cerith snails. But how many should I get and should I add anything else. Going tomorrow to LFS but they aren't very knowledgable

 

[Jdavis8824]

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[tennesseebob]

throw in a handful of Astraea snails, they are pretty handy, small, get in the crivices pretty good.

 

[Dkuhlmann]

Is that a crab in the last picture? I'm sure he's gorging himself on it.

Emerald crabs love that stuff. Just get small ones.

 

[Jdavis8824]

Yea that's the emerald. Not very big. Got the smallest one they had. Also I'm trying to avoid astrea snails because they can't right themselves. In such a small tank, if one dies nitrates will be high really quickly.