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dcninja757
Sergeant 1st Class
Posts: 208
Location: Norfolk, VA
Favorite Fish:: Fish
 | | Subject: my clean up crew 1/28/2011, 12:39 am | |
| 55 gallon salt
currently has
fire shrimp, 3 turbo snails, 2 sally lightfoot crabs, green brittle serpent star
i want
peppermint shrimp
banded coral shrimp
2 emerald crabs
fighting conch
3-6 spiny star astraea snails
3 more turbo snails
possibly a pincushion urchin
ordering soon from liveaquaria.com
is that too many inverts for my tank? |
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lifeisgood
Captain
Posts: 1153
Location: Beaverton , MI
Favorite Fish:: My Favorites are the Pleco's and Cory Cats . BUT , I have 44 running Tanks at this time . I keep 3 kinds of Shellies , several types of Pleco's ( mostly Ancistrus ), Cichlids , Crays , Angels , LB's , and some local species .
| | Subject: Re: my clean up crew 1/28/2011, 2:49 am | |
| Careful with the urchin . If you do not have enough Algae , it will stave to death. And if you have Purple Coraline algae on your live rocks , it will eat that also.
Just sayin' |
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popebosephus
Chief Wrnt. Off. 3
Posts: 415
Location: Midlothian, TX
| | Subject: Re: my clean up crew 1/28/2011, 7:10 am | |
| My 29 CUC
100+ dwarf Cerith Snails
20+ red leg/blue leg hermit crabs
5 emerald crabs
1 sally lightfoot crab
4 peppermint shrimp
10-15 Nass. Snails
5-10 astrea snails |
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J*Hawk*83
First Lieutenant
Posts: 688
Location: Fort Worth
Favorite Fish:: Venestus
Trigger
Lionfish
Wrasse
| | Subject: Re: my clean up crew 1/28/2011, 7:56 am | |
| I had to move my pink pin cushion to the predator tank because he kept picking my clam up and moving him around the tank. I wouldnt suggest him only because he will pick up frags, etc as a natural instinct. They are really cool though. And I personally stop buying blue legs after they kept killing each other and hi-jacking my snails. I bought over a 100, I know have 5  (and yes, plenty of shells laying around the tank). I just doubled up on my snails and put a tiger tailed cucumber in there as well |
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popebosephus
Chief Wrnt. Off. 3
Posts: 415
Location: Midlothian, TX
| | Subject: Re: my clean up crew 1/28/2011, 8:03 am | |
| you gotta get snails smaller than the hermits. LOL |
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J*Hawk*83
First Lieutenant
Posts: 688
Location: Fort Worth
Favorite Fish:: Venestus
Trigger
Lionfish
Wrasse
| | Subject: Re: my clean up crew 1/28/2011, 8:10 am | |
| I had all sizes of both. All sizes kept getting jacked.  I forgot to mention, the pincushion LOVES picking up snails and crabs. You can see them trying to get off of the pincushion buy cant. Its pretty funny. |
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alkomist
Lieutenant General
Posts: 2966
Location: Fontana CA
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| | Subject: Re: my clean up crew 1/28/2011, 8:15 am | |
| all i gots is
3 margarita snails
2 hermits and
and 2 baby asternia snails
pope thats a sick list for a 29 |
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popebosephus
Chief Wrnt. Off. 3
Posts: 415
Location: Midlothian, TX
| | Subject: Re: my clean up crew 1/28/2011, 8:20 am | |
| yeah, but I don't have any noticeable GHA or Cyano on anything the CUC can get to. Stuff they can't get to ... cyano is a bloomin! |
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alkomist
Lieutenant General
Posts: 2966
Location: Fontana CA
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| | Subject: Re: my clean up crew 1/28/2011, 9:58 am | |
| true!
your emerals dont touch the Bubble algea? |
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popebosephus
Chief Wrnt. Off. 3
Posts: 415
Location: Midlothian, TX
| | Subject: Re: my clean up crew 1/28/2011, 9:59 am | |
| They do, it's in recession. I just gotta patiently wait it out. |
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dcninja757
Sergeant 1st Class
Posts: 208
Location: Norfolk, VA
Favorite Fish:: Fish
| | Subject: Re: my clean up crew 1/28/2011, 11:04 am | |
| no urchin. does the rest look good? I'd get hermits but i'm afraid they'll steal my snail shells |
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J*Hawk*83
First Lieutenant
Posts: 688
Location: Fort Worth
Favorite Fish:: Venestus
Trigger
Lionfish
Wrasse
| | Subject: Re: my clean up crew 1/28/2011, 11:14 am | |
| I wouldnt get the coral banded shrimp because it will eat any/all shrimp in the tank. They dont like competition. I would also add 2+ peppermints. They like groups and some will eat aiptasia. I have 4 remaining, out of my 8 that I have put in there. I always put a few extra in case of M.I.A's or deaths. |
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