210 Gallon Reef tank Clean up crew suggestions

Amberion

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Moving has its ups and downs.... Moving to another state meant I had to strip down and sell most of my reef tank stuff, and start all over. That being said I am finally putting in a dream tank and going with a Reefer-2 1000 G2. (yes I will make a new build thread when it gets here). Just starting to work on some of the planning such as aquascape and such, but as this will be my biggest reef tank yet at 210 gallons, (My last big one was 120) I thought I would ask if anyone has recommendations for fun reef safe clean up crew. What I mean by fun is unique and different, not just lots of emerald crabs, and snails. Anyhow, what have you seen, or heard of, or wanted to do in a big tank for CUC? Just want to see what other peoples thoughts are so I can maybe have some other ideas while pulling together mine. (This will be a non aggressive reef tank)
 

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Some reef safe options I’ve looked into are:
-Sand Sifting stars
-linckia and fromia stars, amazing on detritus and diatoms
-any of the pincushion urchins (tuxedo, halloween etc, keep in mind some may grab small frags that aren’t secured) good for many algaes depending on species
-chitons, good for algaes
-sea hares, need a constant source of hair algae species
-abalone
-conch snails, plenty of reef safe/peaceful sifting species
-arrow crabs but not completely reef safe for tube worms and such, and can get large/aggressive, but look awesome lol
-stomatella snails, small but interesting
-nudibranchs like lettuce nudis

all i can think of at the moment haha
 

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