I have gone through some different CUC in my 13 gallon nano and found that my absolute best was when I had hermit crabs running around the tank. However, they started to kill my snails and I got tired of replacing the snails so I decided to remove the hermits and add a couple of nerite snails instead (which seem to do absolutely nothing).
As of right now, my CUC consists of:
3 trochus snails
3 nerite snails
possibly 1 blue legged hermit left
2 nassarius snails
1 strawberry conch
1 skunk cleaner shrimp
My sand bed is starting to get gross by the time my water change is due, and I have some hair algae growing. As well as just plain old film algae. Nothing is out of control thankfully and I'm lucky to say I haven't experienced an "ugly stage" yet. But I am wondering what else I can add to supplement this CUC primarily for general maintenance nothing specific. If i could I would go back to hermits but I do not want my tank to be a warzone so are there anything that do the job like hermit crabs?
As of right now, my CUC consists of:
3 trochus snails
3 nerite snails
possibly 1 blue legged hermit left
2 nassarius snails
1 strawberry conch
1 skunk cleaner shrimp
My sand bed is starting to get gross by the time my water change is due, and I have some hair algae growing. As well as just plain old film algae. Nothing is out of control thankfully and I'm lucky to say I haven't experienced an "ugly stage" yet. But I am wondering what else I can add to supplement this CUC primarily for general maintenance nothing specific. If i could I would go back to hermits but I do not want my tank to be a warzone so are there anything that do the job like hermit crabs?