Hopeful Reefer
Premium Member
I have a 10g nano that is becoming established...my water parameters are holding steady, my 2 clowns and my corals are getting acclimated to my tank/lighting, and everybody seems to be doing well...
My cleanup crew is doing a bangup job taking care of riding my tank of the final algae blooms that happened at the end of the cycle...
I took a look at the back of my tank last night...between the rockwork and the back of the tank and got a horrid suprise...I was not aware that snails put out more poop than my 1 year old daughter!!
The sand behind the rocks is just totally littered with poop...
What kind of detrivores can I put in to a 10g nano...as far as my bioload, I have 2 clowns...corals, I have some small Zoos, some button pollups, a very rapidly growing xenia, and a very pretty 2 headed/branched frogspawn (not sure the proper term)...for my cleanup crew, I have 1 scarlet leg hermit, 2 small reef hermits, 5 small to medium size blue leg hermits, 2 margarita snails and 2 nassarius snails...
I was planning on switching over to a 15g High tank very soon...it has the same footprint as a 10g so I can use my existing hood and stand...I will be adding a sump at this time with a decent size refugium...I will put a shallow sand bed in the 15g and I will seed the DSB in the refugium below with most of the sand from my current 10g (with some sand going on the sand bed in the 15g)...
So, with all this in mind I was thinking of what I can do to a) further reduce any algae problems because I use PC lights and b) what kind of sand sifting goby or other detrivore can I put in to the system to clean up the snail and clown poop that is making my sand bed look like crap (literally :lol: )
My cleanup crew is doing a bangup job taking care of riding my tank of the final algae blooms that happened at the end of the cycle...
I took a look at the back of my tank last night...between the rockwork and the back of the tank and got a horrid suprise...I was not aware that snails put out more poop than my 1 year old daughter!!
The sand behind the rocks is just totally littered with poop...What kind of detrivores can I put in to a 10g nano...as far as my bioload, I have 2 clowns...corals, I have some small Zoos, some button pollups, a very rapidly growing xenia, and a very pretty 2 headed/branched frogspawn (not sure the proper term)...for my cleanup crew, I have 1 scarlet leg hermit, 2 small reef hermits, 5 small to medium size blue leg hermits, 2 margarita snails and 2 nassarius snails...
I was planning on switching over to a 15g High tank very soon...it has the same footprint as a 10g so I can use my existing hood and stand...I will be adding a sump at this time with a decent size refugium...I will put a shallow sand bed in the 15g and I will seed the DSB in the refugium below with most of the sand from my current 10g (with some sand going on the sand bed in the 15g)...
So, with all this in mind I was thinking of what I can do to a) further reduce any algae problems because I use PC lights and b) what kind of sand sifting goby or other detrivore can I put in to the system to clean up the snail and clown poop that is making my sand bed look like crap (literally :lol: )
