i have 1harlequinbass,3 small wrasses i caught in the ocean,1frenchangel,3bluechromis,1yellowbellydamsel,and a porcupine my question is i have a few hermits in my tank its a 90 gallon fowlr i wanna put in alot more cleaners oh sorry and i have a hogfish too,besides the porcupine do any of these other fish eat crabs,snails etc... - i might get rid of the porcupine hes the biggest fish in the tank about 5 inches remember all my other fish range from 1 to 3 inches.
putting in a clean up crew
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the wrasses (the hogfish is a wrasse too) depending on species, will probably eat crabs, shrimp maybe snails. be careful of crabs and hermits, some species will go after fish.
you might consider some urchins and serpent/brittle stars. are you wanting algae eaters or detritovores, or both? some blennies will control nuisance algae.
you might consider some urchins and serpent/brittle stars. are you wanting algae eaters or detritovores, or both? some blennies will control nuisance algae.
You aren't the first person to ask. I made it up
. When I started keeping seahorses, which are often found in seagrass beds, I started growing a number of species of macroalgae in seahorse set-ups with low flow, moderate light, lagoon sort of environment. I liked the look, and extended it to a small predator tank.My 55 gallon PPR tank is:
Planted with about more ~10 species of green and red macroalgae (Halimeda, 2-3 species Caulerpa, Codium, Chaetomorpha, 2 species red macro, some kind of green turf algae, etc.)
Predator - with a green wolf eel blenny, waspfish, juvenile niger trigger (and a juvenile blue spotted rabbitfish). My Hawaiian leaf fish are with seahorses now, but once the trigger and rabbit move to bigger tanks, they'll be back in.
Reef - okay, not that much of a reef - leather corals, mushrooms, a lot of different polyps, Turbinaria, couple other easy, hardy corals.
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