Gonna go check out a couple LFS today

[AK707]

I dont really like the 2 LFS closest to my house so im going to check out a couple more today.
my tank has been cycled for at least a week now, i did a 35ish% water change the other day and threw some chemipure blue and filter floss in my media basket.
my 2 clowns will be done with ttm on saturday (3 days from now)
i dont have any algae yet but was thinking about getting 5 different snails, a fire shrimp, a scarlet skunk cleaner shrimp and a peppermint shrimp, along with a few crabs, 1 emerald and 2-3 hermits.
my tank is a 40g nuvo, do you think this small cleanup crew would be okay in my new tank with no algae?

 

[sde1500]

You should not be putting 2 clowns in a 4 gallon tank.

 

[billdogg]

Is your tank really a 4 gallon tank? If so, you will be horribly overstocked. The clowns alone will be too much IMO. Think at least 40 gallons for the pair, not 4.

A tank that size is suited to a shrimp/goby pair or a couple of very small fish.

jm.02

 

[AK707]

40g nuvo...my bad

 

[sde1500]

That changes things. I don't think that would be too much of a problem for a CUC. I had an emerald, never liked it so returned it to the store. Get scarlet hermits, they aren't snail murderers.

 

[jml1149]

Emerald crabs will eat things you love. They are horrible little ba$tards and should be banned from the trade.

Hermits are borderline ba$tards unless they have really really red claws. Then they're probably ok.

 

[AK707]

are porcelain crabs any better? i just think they look cool honestly

 

[Fiver]

There are porcelain crabs that don't associate with anemones, and then there are porcelain anemone crabs. (Look for a thread on this from October.) I have the non-anemone types, and they are the best. They're peaceful, don't harm a thing, hang out on your rocks and filter feed all day.

I don't have experience with the anemone types, but that older thread said they irritate anemones.

 

[Betaktical]

He said 40 gallon in the original post... Are you planning on getting coral? I had 3 peppermint shrimp for 3 months and then all of a sudden they all went crazy and destroyed all my feather dusters my pocillopora and my monti.


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[sde1500]

He said 40 gallon in the original post... Are you planning on getting coral? I had 3 peppermint shrimp for 3 months and then all of a sudden they all went crazy and destroyed all my feather dusters my pocillopora and my monti.


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Nah, he edited the post lol.


I have heard porcelain crabs are ok, can't speak from experience though. All I know is my emerald murdered my blood shrimp, so I will never get one again. Blood/fire shrimps are cool, def go with one of those, they are so bright red.

 

[jml1149]

I thought emeralds were cool too, until I saw one start snacking on a grape coral I had. Just chilling on the rock, staring at me, I'm staring at it. Reaches up, graps a polyp, and puts it in its mouth. Keeps staring at me. You SOB. Then I spent DAYS chasing this mofo around trying to get it out. Finally got it on a rock that was an island and had to pull the whole rock out. Dropped into sump end of rant.

 

[scooter31707]

If there is no algae, just try some Nori to a small piece of rock and place it on the sandbed for them to eat. You can also drop 1-3 pellets in the tank.

 

[Sk8r]

Remember that herbivores need green food of some sort, green pellet, seaweed flake, etc, and I concur: crabs any larger than a micro hermit (scarlets are the best) is a potential problem.

 

[anthonys51]

if your carbs dont have enough to eat they will eat what they can. think to many people put way to many cuc members in there tank and then they see the crab eat something and go crazy. i have 3 emeralds in a 57 with 125 lbs of rock, in 3 years never seen them eat anything, actually seen my sally crab eat one of them,. i will advise people from getting a sally, they get big and aggressive, but he is really cool in my sump