What is a good reef clean up crew for my 12g?

[nmaligaya]

I'm looking getting a better nano reef clean up crew. I'm not really happy with my 3 turbo snails and they tend to knock everything around. Please let me know what you all think with this group, and other suggestions would be great too.

5 blue leg hermit crabs
5 red leg hermit crabs
10 black nassarius snails
3 nerite snails
2 bumble bee snails

Here is the list that I can choose from the above is the list I want to get. Anything better than what I listed would help me out, again this is going in my 12g and eventually to my 39g Cadlight.

* 5 Blue leg reef hermit crabs!(Scavenges and cleans primarily rock and sand. Consumes algae, detritus, and left over foods)

* 5 Red leg reef hermit crabs!(Scavenges and cleans primarily rock and sand. Consumes algae, detritus, and left over foods)

* 3 Hawaiian Zebra reef hermit crabs!(Scavenges and cleans primarily rock and sand. Consumes algae, detritus, and left over foods)

* 10 Black Nassarius snails! (Scavenges and cleans primarily sand with some rock and glass activity. Consumes detritus, and left over foods)

* 3 Astrea Snails! (Cleans primarily rock and glass/acrylic. Consumes various algaes, diatoms, slimes, etc.)

* 2 Zebra Turbo Snails! (Larger snail cleans primarily rock and glass/acrylic. Consumes various algaes, diatoms, slimes, etc.)

* 2 Mexican Turbo Snails! (Larger snail cleans primarily rock and glass/acrylic. Consumes various algaes, diatoms, slimes, etc.)

* 3 Nerite Snails! (Cleans primarily rock and glass/acrylic. Consumes various algaes, diatoms, slimes, etc.)

* 2 Tongan Nassarius Snails! (Scavenges and cleans primarily sand with some rock and glass activity. Consumes detritus, and left over foods)

* 2 Bumblebee Snails! (Scavenges and cleans primarily rock and glass/acrylic with some sand activity. Consumes detritus, and left over foods)

* 1 Tiger Sand Conch! (Cleans primarily sand with some lower tank rock and glass/acrylic. Consumes algae, detritus, slimes, etc.)

thanks in advance,

Niño

 

[kes_reef]

Hey Nino,

I like trochus snails - they are able to right themselves if they fall on their backs, can eat filamentous algae, diatoms, etc. If you have sand, then add some nassarius snails to keep it turned over. I also prefer red scarlet hermits which stay small and are excellent scavengers.