CUC for 6 gallon

[Nanocube-6]

what type of inverts should i get for a reef 6 gallon nano cube.
I was thinkin

3 Nassarius snails or 3 cerith snails
2 Astrea snails
1Sexy Shrimp
2 Peppermint Shrimp (invested with Aiptasia)
1 Emerald Crab
2 blue legs
2 red legs

Whats your opinions?

Please feel free to comment if that cuc is incorrect becuase if not thats probley what i will get.

thankks soo much for the comments

 

[nano mania]

That is starting to sound like a really crowded tank and you haven't mentioned fish yet.
I would go with:
1 Nassarius snails or 3 cerith snails
2 Astrea snails
1 Peppermint Shrimp (invested with Aiptasia)
2 blue legs
2 red legs

With too many CUC food can run out and animals will starve. You need to find a good balance.

 

[Pea-brain]

Heres a better balance-1 astrea, 1 nerite, 4 nass, 3 sexies (they like groups) and manual care for the aptaisia (no guarentees they'd eat it anyways. Just take a syringe-needle or not, and throw some vinegar into the aptaisia mouth. Or kalk paste, or lemon juice, or buy some of that joes juice stuff). Maybe add 1 scarlet reef hermit.

Dan

 

[Nanocube-6]

How about this
Start:
2 reds (smallest in tank)
1 emerald crab(smallest in tank)
3 cerith/ 1nass.
1 peppermint shrimp
ALL THE INVERTS/FISH/AND CORALS WILL BE SMALL!!!!!!
After tank progress and corals and fish and other inverts are thriving i take out the large inverts and replace them with new and more complacated ones.Perhaaps a pair of sexy shrimp a nudibranch or two, eletric blue hermits, may even condiser some type of clam or sccalop.

 

[Pea-brain]

I don't trust emeralds, they can turn on you in an instant (just about any crab but porcelains can).

Also nothing on that list will eat algae on the glass or rocks. Nerites/astreas were on my list for that reason.

Scarlet reef hermits are great algae eaters and will keep down tougher algae such as hair algae an dsometimes even cyano (they may eat corralline also). They also aren't too prone to killing snails for their shells.

Peppermint shrimp aren't all that active during the day and aren't guarenteed to eat aptaisia so if you get one I wouldn't get it for that-get it as an ornamental invert that *may* eat aptaisia

Sexies are definately a cool little shrimp (and I mean little). No reason not to include them unless you plan to have something that eats them. They should probably added after the snails but before the fish.

No reason for small corals really. Except for manually fed LPS corals corals hardly add to the bioload and may even decrease it.

For fish I would recommend a goby-maybe a neon goby or clown goby. Or if you are good about water changes and husbandry both.

Also remember to cycle the tank well before adding ANYTHING (except of course live rock)

Dan

 

[Nanocube-6]

Here is a current list of my CUC.
2 Margeritas (dose same job as astreas, but better cuz they dont tip over)
2 Nass
2 Red-leggs
1 emrald green crab
What do you think still on the list:
1 peppermint shrimp
and a pair of sexy shrimp(they are not a part of the CUC but they are cool)

 

[Nanocube-6]

I did not add the 3 shrimp yet, because on the post i did not specifi