cleanup crew for saltwater fish

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So I have 4 turbo snails in my 75-gallon saltwater tank and a goby. I do have Macroalgae plants in the tank to help with nitrates which they do a lot but the snails seem to eat the whole macroalgae plant and go on to eat more of the plants, I do have diatoms in the water so that's why I originally bought them for cleanup and uneaten food in the sand. So, do you have any suggestions on what other cleanup crew I could get that won't eat any microalgae plants but at least helps clean the diatoms in the water?
 
How old is your tank? Diatoms go away on their own after a couple of weeks, and not many snails eat diatoms. I think trochus do but not turbo's, they eat hair algae.

If you have diatoms, I assume the tank is new and has no green algae? That would be the reason the snails are eating the macro algae. But I'm just guessing, you haven't provided enough info
 
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How old is your tank? Diatoms go away on their own after a couple of weeks, and not many snails eat diatoms. I think trochus do but not turbo's, they eat hair algae.

If you have diatoms, I assume the tank is new and has no green algae? That would be the reason the snails are eating the macro algae. But I'm just guessing, you haven't provided enough info
So it’s 7 months tank, it hasn’t grown green algae at all since I been constant with water changes and cleaning the glass, only green algae is on live rocks, diatoms are still there even after a lot of water changes, the snails did eat the diatoms but the macro algae I had wasn’t hair, it was straight up like Dragons Breath Algae and POM POM algae which I can be wrong if it is hair algae, had the algae there because it helped with Ammonia and Nitrates to keep it down and I had no problem of it since. I have like 14 fishes in the tank with a 75 gallon tank. I got rid of the snails anyway since they kept eating the macro algae plants but I been trying to feed it like dried seaweed or plankton, so I just been lookin for another type of saltwater fish or bottom feeder that would probably clean unwasted food on the bottom and cleans the rock from algae but just won’t eat the plants to be honest anyway
 
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Take a look at reefcleaners.org. Let them know what you already have when you fill out the form. They got back to me in a day when I asked
 
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