my clean up crew

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?

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'

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

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

you gotta get snails smaller than the hermits. LOL

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.

all i gots is
3 margarita snails
2 hermits and
and 2 baby asternia snails

pope thats a sick list for a 29

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!

true!
your emerals dont touch the Bubble algea?

They do, it's in recession. I just gotta patiently wait it out.

no urchin. does the rest look good? I'd get hermits but i'm afraid they'll steal my snail shells

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.

reading liveaquaria.com description of the coral banded shrimp they are only aggressive to smaller species... have a big fire shrimp... u think he'd eat the peppermints?

He would eat anything that looked like a shrimp. They are really aggressive towards other shrimp species as well as their own. I wouldnt take a chance, but if you want it, go for it. Every tank is different.

I don't have other shrimp in my setup but I do enjoy my coral banded shrimp. He is getting quite huge! Just molted again two days ago.