What's your 'lights off' clean up crew? Have you considered this?

Rick's Reviews · Oct 6, 2023

We have great options for an active daytime clean up crew, snails hermit's, various crabs, starfish etc and we love watching our awesome aquariums in the day

Have you actually thought of the possibility of a night time clean up crew along with setting up your aquarium ,
What do you think is best clean up crew for after 'lights off'

Do You look at your aquarium after lights off

blaxsun · Oct 6, 2023

Yes. My "after lights" cleanup crew consists of a very large mutant trochus snail, a fat abalone and a fleet or nassarius snails and their offspring. Plus all the Halloween and scarlet hermit crabs that typically only come out at night.

kevgib67 · Oct 6, 2023

Hats off, my tuxedo urchin is my best cuc!

shakacuz · Oct 6, 2023

i have a tuxedo urchin, sand dollar urchin, three hermit crabs(electric blue, scarlet red, halloween), lots of snails, and a small strawberry/tiger conch. i want to get a fighting conch. nassarius snails do not last for me

Rick's Reviews · Oct 8, 2023

blaxsun said:
Yes. My "after lights" cleanup crew consists of a very large mutant trochus snail, a fat abalone and a fleet or nassarius snails and their offspring. Plus all the Halloween and scarlet hermit crabs that typically only come out at night.

What are your 'mutants' I have these I believe mexican turbo snails that started off very small, now they are insanely massive

blaxsun · Oct 8, 2023

My mutant trochus is the size of my fist. "They mostly come out at night. Mostly..."

Rick's Reviews · Oct 8, 2023

Really, the size of your fist

That would make a great algae eater alone
Mine similar size to my urchin lol , I think I have 5 but this is probably biggest

LouisianaReef · Oct 8, 2023

Those are huge!

Rick's Reviews · Oct 8, 2023

blaxsun said:
My mutant trochus is the size of my fist. "They mostly come out at night. Mostly..."

Got me interested into the 'mutants' lol
Biggest snail I have as part of my nightime cuc

DaJMasta · Oct 8, 2023

I'm not sure what the distinction is, most of the creatures you list are more active at night. A more exclusive one would be sea cucumbers, which will generally hide during the day, but my snails, crabs, peppermint shrimp, urchins, and conchs are all out more or are more active at night than during the day.

blaxsun · Oct 8, 2023

I don't have a snapshot of him as he typically hangs out in a cave during the day and only comes out at night to feed, but using someone else's "king turbo snail" vs. "regular turbo snail" for reference, this is a rough approximation (within 10-15%).

slingfox · Oct 8, 2023

blaxsun said:
I don't have a snapshot of him as he typically hangs out in a cave during the day and only comes out at night to feed, but using someone else's "king turbo snail" vs. "regular turbo snail" for reference, this is a rough approximation (within 10-15%).

Wow!

Rick's Reviews · Oct 8, 2023

DaJMasta said:
I'm not sure what the distinction is, most of the creatures you list are more active at night. A more exclusive one would be sea cucumbers, which will generally hide during the day, but my snails, crabs, peppermint shrimp, urchins, and conchs are all out more or are more active at night than during the day.

Ah, well at least my 'mutants' was genuine photos from my aquriam

Thanks

blaxsun · Oct 8, 2023

Rick's Reviews said:
Ah, well at least my 'mutants' was genuine photos from my aquriam

When I get him to cooperate I'll be happy to oblige. He's similar to yours - just about 6-8x that size...

Rick's Reviews · Oct 8, 2023

blaxsun said:
When I get him to cooperate I'll be happy to oblige. He's similar to yours - just about 6-8x that size...

My trocus not massive like a fist sized, I have these also

shwareefer · Oct 8, 2023

I don't find anything in my tank is exclusively nightime except my money cowrie and when i had it, my stomatella. All my other snails, tuxedo urchins wander around 24/7.