stocking for a 30g (help with cleanup crew)

[ronin_man]

hmm... i saw one in the store with corals, but that doesnt meen they hadnt taken some chewed up corals out of the tank...

 

[BradsOcean]

yeah. that means nothing! it might not eat any of your corals in the first 5 days (probably how long its in the fish store before they sell it)..it could take weeks or even months for it to start

 

[ronin_man]

hmm... now i might have to find something else to put in there...

 

[Toddrtrex]

Angels are hit or miss, but some are worse then others. IME, a bi-color is the worst reef safe dwarf angel (( with a lemonpeel a close second ). Plus, they have poor survival rates.

Over the years I have had 3 flames, never had any of them nip (( I mainly keep SPS )).

As for the snails, I would start off with 5 or so, and see how they are doing. Better to buy more later, as opposed to getting too many now and having them starve.

In my 29 I have 2 -- one trochus, and one Mexican turbo. Also have two nass snails.

 

[ronin_man]

good point about the snails

so flames arnt THAT bad ?

 

[BradsOcean]

haha, you can risk it. I did, then i regretted it. But you'll learn from experience. and maybe, it'll be fine. but maybe not.

 

[LJA]

I have a 29G and this is my current stock list that has suited me well:


1 Coral Beauty Angel (No problem with any coral and I have mainly LPS)
1 Pseudochromis
1 Orange Ocellaris
1 Black Ocellaris

Coral Banded Shrimp
Emerald Crab

About 10 Blue Leg Hermits
1 Scarlet red hermit

~ 7 Nassarious snails
~ 30 Dwarf Ceriths
~ 7 Florida Ceriths
~ 3 Turbo snails
~ 3 Nerite snails
~ 2 limpets
1 Florida fighting conch

A lot, maybe. but I have a pretty large bioload.

Run this system with a 10 gallon fuge and octopus nw-200 skimmer.

Good luck.

 

[justme97]

In my 29g I have 1 turbo, 2 nass, and 2 hermits.

This is so much less than what people seem to recomend but the turbo espeically keeps my 35-40lbs of live rock looking pretty good so I don't see the point in adding to my cleaning crew?

lol. the turbo makes enough poop as it is!

 

[justme97]

oh...and I think brad should keep his shirt off!

 

[BradsOcean]

haha thanks..
What?! 1 turbo, 2 nassarious, and 2 hermits?! that is hardly anything.
I must have had a HUGE bioload and way better lights then...cause i had at least 15 snails

 

[Firekat]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14092916#post14092916 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by BradsOcean
haha thanks..
What?! 1 turbo, 2 nassarious, and 2 hermits?! that is hardly anything.
I must have had a HUGE bioload and way better lights then...cause i had at least 15 snails

Trochus snails are great because they can flip themselves back over. Nassarious are great for sand and Nerite or cerith are good rock cleaners....

 

[BradsOcean]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14092976#post14092976 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Firekat
Trochus snails are great because they can flip themselves back over. Nassarious are great for sand and Nerite or cerith are good rock cleaners....

yeah, got it

 

[justme97]

Well the turbo seems to do most of the work...he's just a non-stop algea eating machine. My lighting is decent at 130 watts of pc lighting and before I got him the amount of algea was scary...hair algae everywhere. But within a week the turbo single handedly cleanined up almost all the rocks and now keeps them clean. The only thing the hermits seemed to help with was getting the algea off the turbo

As far as him knocking over rocks, I use underwater epoxy to secure things...seems to work well and not as permanant as it sounds.

 

[BradsOcean]

that turbo must be on steroids if he's single-handedly cleaning that rock and glass!

 

[BradsOcean]

btw, i have 10 astrea snails and 1 nassarious in my 12 gallon. they have all been alive for 18 months now, no problems.

 

[Whys]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14092860#post14092860 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by justme97
oh...and I think brad should keep his shirt off!

It's a trend.