Help selecting cleanup crew

[pascal32]

I'm looking to put a new cleanup crew into my 120 mixed reef with an anemone.

any suggestions on contents and from where to order?

I love the idea of buying local, last time I costed it it was 5-10 times the price buying per piece.

Hoping to place order on Tuesday night for Thursday delivery

thanks!

 

[pascal32]

Should have mentioned there are two 20 gallon frag tanks connected with. Total system volume around 150 gallons.

Current livestock: OS tang, yellow tang, coral beauty, hawkfish, pajama cardinal, brittle bubble tip starfish, sea cucumber (still in old tank).

 

[pascal32]

........ignore.........

 

[dreaminmel]

Did you figure out what/where?

 

[pascal32]

No idea. Last time I ordered was years ago from Florida. I was hoping some seasoned eta could contribute thoughts on a solid crew for the new 120 with 1.5-2" of sand

 

[dreaminmel]

I can tell you what works in my 125g but mileage may vary. I've got a conch, two cucumbers, 10ish astrea snails, one nassarius, two skunk cleaner shrimp and 4 large mexican turbo snails. My four zebra dartfish and the yellow coris wrasse all sleep in the sand bed which I'm guessing helps keep that stirred up a bit.

I've never ordered a cleaner crew online but know others have and maybe they'll chime in with experiences for you. I'm a firm believer in slowly adding snails until you find things being taken care of. I've seen a lot of people add large groups of them only to end up slowly losing them from not having enough to eat.

 

[Gangrene]

Try Bluezooaquatics.com

 

[pascal32]

Here's what I'm thinking

40-50 - Nassarius Vibex - sand sifter
50 - blue legged hermit crabs - general cleaning
6- Emerald Crab - good for bubble algae if i ever get any
1 - cucumber (already have him)
10 - Astrea Snails - cleaning algae
50 - nerith snails - eat film from walls
3 - cleaner shrimp

any thought? I'm also wondering if I should wait X weeks before adding a cleanup crew since the tank is so clean and only has been up for a month with livestock for the last 1-2 weeks.