Ratio of Snails

[twodaend]

I have a small clean up crew now, but I'm looking to add more. However, I don't know excatly how much I should add. I have a 20L and I have 2 turbo snails and 5 Astrea snails (had 6 but one fell upside down before I could find him, he was gone). So i'm looking to have a mix of snails including astreas, Nassarius, and Cerith. However everywhere I'm looking, each says 1 per gallon. I don't think I need 60 snails. However, I want to try and order them all at the same time to save on multiple shipping.

Thus would 10 each be ok. I'll just add 5 more Astreas, and get 10 each of the Nassarius and Ceriths. For some reason, I haven't seen and Nassarisu and Ceriths locally, but I can easily find the Astreas.

 

[918ReefCpl]

Initially in our 125 we "had" 5 Turbo's, 5 Trocha's (sp), 2 nassarius and about 25 blueleg hermits...we're now down to 1 Trocha (sp), 2 turbo's, 2 nassarius and maybe 10-15hermits... they seem to be doing a good job even at the reduced #. We're going to add 4 more nassarius and 3 turbo's and a handful of med bluelegs to get the mix back up a bit...we also have 4 peppermint and 1 CB shrimp along with a boatload of minibrittle stars...check out the different online shops as they have different cleanup crews available - our local club is arranging a group buy so we can all restock our cleaner crews