Clean Up Crews

[MUCHO REEF]

What inverts, ( clean up crew ) are you using to keep nuisance algae at bay in your tank. How many and what's the size of your tank?

I have 15 blue legs, 15 astreas, 15 cerith and a few turbos and serpent stars in a 70 gallon. They do a pretty good job.

 

[650-IS350]

As for Algae removal or trimming, I have a bunch of astrea's, turbos, trochus, regular ceriths and jumbo ceriths. I also employed Foxface and tangs to supress harder algae and HA'

I also have a 3" Lawnmower blenny for algae removal as well.

I do feed heavy as well so I have a dozen or super nassarius snails and a bunch of brittle stars to help with extra food and detrius.

Charles-

 

[cardgenius]

I have a mixture of Blue legs and Scarlet crabs. And a mixture of Astreas, Cerith, a few Nassarius and one large Turbo. Im slowly working on getting all the blue leg crabs out. They are good cleaners but will kill a snail to get its shell. Ive lost most of my nassarius and cerith because of this. Theres about 50 snails and 40 hermit crabs. But once I get the blue legs their should be about 15-20 scarlets. Ill also add more Nassarius, probably 20 once the blue legs are out. These are all in a 125g.

 

[Kigs]

50G - 25 scarlets, 1 cucumber, 3 emerald mithrax, 1 serpent star, ~20 nassaurius

 

[650-IS350]

Oh yeah forgot about a dozen or so scarlet hermits and 2 blue small hermits ( tiny ones to avoid em' eating snails )

 

[stoneroller]

5 turbos, 20 bluelegs, down to about 10 astrea, haven't seen the nassarius snails in a while, 2 serpent stars, and most importantly IMO....

phosban in a bag

 

[flyyyguy]

30-60 astrea 20-40 ceriths and a handful of trochus in a 225

 

[STH53]

15 astrea snails 100 nerite snails 25 nassarius snails 25 cerith snails and 50 mexican red leg hermits in a 240. Switched from blue leg hermits that were eating the snails to the mexican red leg that don't seem to bother anything but algae.

 

[Skeptic_07]

20G - 10 scarlet hermits - 10 astrea - 5 narcissus

 

[capture]

3 bluelegs, 2 Nassarius, 2 turbos, 2 astrea in a 10 gallon.

 

[wrasseguy2]

20 scarlets, 20 astreas, turbos and trochus and lots of nassarius..2 serpents and a couple brittle stars.and i know there are tons of mini brittle stars..i also have a yellow tang that does eat any algae that might pop up as well

 

[kiran523]

not sure about numbers but a lot of atreas and cerith, nerite, nassarius, turbos, stomatella, conch, stars (brittle, harlequin, and lots of minis), blue leg hermits, and a lawnmower blenny

 

[Skeptic_07]

nassarius... dammti self.. and i forgot to mention the multitude large hungry bristle worms that i have lovingly confined to my fuge.

 

[tsr770]

3 month old 95....

2 big turbos, 10 Jumbo Cerith, 10 Astreas, 3 Margaritas, 5 Nerites, 3 Bumblebees, Brittle Star, 1 Zebra Hermit, 5 or so Blue Legs, 5 or so Mexican Red legs, 2 peppermint shrimp

 

[NanoReefWanabe]

20 Gallon, 3 large tongan ceriths(hopefully soon to have more, as a result of the big nasty pile of funk they left on the glass today), 2 regular ceriths, 2 trochus, 2 margarite, 6 nassarius, 3 astrea, 1 turbo, 4 blue leg hermits, 1 black brittle star, and 1 strawberry conch...piles of bristle worms, one coral banded shrimp as well...

bunch of asternia stars in the sump, 1 zebra hemit in the sump