clean up crew?

[ghettoeffect27]

hi,
i currently have a 90 gallon marine tank with :
1' porc puffer
a foxface
a tomato clown
and a paddlefin wrasse(new)
and I would like to know what inverts if i can get any to get to clean the tank. I have a hermit crab and used to have a coral banded shrimp but the puffer ate it.

 

[Stuart60611]

You are pretty much out of luck with respect to any clean up crew with the puffer in the tank. Puffers will eat all inverts. You may have a shot maintaining some worms in your sandbed, but that is about it. I have a valentini puffer which is probably the most forgiving on inverts. At first, I could maintain some hermits with him. Now that he has aged he eats any invert I put in the tank.

 

[ghettoeffect27]

oh thanks for the info.

 

[sean48183]

Try a supersized hermit. One that can defend himself. There was a dude on here that had a huge stars & stripes puffer and 2 big hermits. Puffer never bothered them because of the damage the hermits could do with those huge pinchers. Becareful of how you stack your rocks because those hermits can do some rearranging. I had a big one in my fuge and it used to push around my 5 lb rock from one end of the tank to the other.