Clean up crew

krystalstarr

Community Member
View Badges
Joined
Dec 23, 2022
Messages
41
Reaction score
12
Location
los altos CA
Rating - 0%
0   0   0
Hello. I have a 32 gallon tank where I am keeping two erectus seahorses. I’ve had them for about one week. Just got them to start eating recently. They are eating frozen mysis shrimp, but they are extremely slow eaters and no matter what I do I seem to still get uneaten shrimp, falling to the bottom of the tank. I have white sand in my aquarium, so it is impossible to see and clean up. I purchased 8 snails. (don’t remember what kind of snails they are but the guy at the store recommended them for hair algae.) snails are doing great for cleaning up the algae, but they don’t seem to be cleaning any of the uneven food. Is there anything besides snails that I can safely put with seahorses that will eat the uneaten mysis shrimp. Seahorse websites seem to sell a lot of things that I don’t think are safe with the seahorses. Hermit crabs and starfish, etc.. I don’t know if it is safe to trust the advertised “ seahorse safe” cleanup, crews.
 

gbroadbridge

2500 Club Member
View Badges
Joined
Mar 25, 2021
Messages
4,055
Reaction score
4,234
Location
Sydney, Australia
Rating - 0%
0   0   0
Hello. I have a 32 gallon tank where I am keeping two erectus seahorses. I’ve had them for about one week. Just got them to start eating recently. They are eating frozen mysis shrimp, but they are extremely slow eaters and no matter what I do I seem to still get uneaten shrimp, falling to the bottom of the tank. I have white sand in my aquarium, so it is impossible to see and clean up. I purchased 8 snails. (don’t remember what kind of snails they are but the guy at the store recommended them for hair algae.) snails are doing great for cleaning up the algae, but they don’t seem to be cleaning any of the uneven food. Is there anything besides snails that I can safely put with seahorses that will eat the uneaten mysis shrimp. Seahorse websites seem to sell a lot of things that I don’t think are safe with the seahorses. Hermit crabs and starfish, etc.. I don’t know if it is safe to trust the advertised “ seahorse safe” cleanup, crews.
Nassarius snails eat detritus - they are great CUC
 
Upvote 0

Going off the ledge: Would you be interested in a drop off aquarium?

  • I currently have a drop off style aquarium

    Votes: 2 1.7%
  • I don’t currently have a drop off style aquarium, but I have in the past.

    Votes: 1 0.9%
  • I haven’t had a drop off style aquarium, but I plan to in the future.

    Votes: 19 16.4%
  • I am interested in a drop off style aquarium, but have no plans to add one in the future.

    Votes: 52 44.8%
  • I am not interested in a drop off style aquarium.

    Votes: 39 33.6%
  • Other.

    Votes: 3 2.6%
Back
Top