How Big Is Your Clean-Up Crew, Really?

[James CNM]

Elaborate because i have know idea what you are speaking about

Gotcha, your too far away Alice!.. Life can really suck

Change yours!

 

[kevgib67]

A lot of snail varieties, Mexican turbos, zebra turbos, trochus, ceriths, nassarius, bumblebees micro bristle stars, long spine urchin, pincushion urchin, tuxedo urchin, copepods, bristle worms, spaghetti worms and by far the ultimate cuc my son’s seahare that he puts in my tank when he gets sick of supplementing feeding because they are so dang efficient at eating gha!

 

[James CNM]

"Alice" thanks you for your submissions & contribution's

 

[Michael Hughes]

Do I even want to ask what a "trouser snail" is?

 

[James CNM]

Aww, Don't that Look ****e! "There no belt buckle to Grip!"

 

[13rodo]

I have a bunch of interesting snails and other invertebrates. I like to grab anything interesting from reef cleaners when it’s in stock. My tanks are also stomatella snail farms at this point, which is awesome because they are my favorite. I think the CUC adds to the character of the reef especially if you grab interesting creatures.

 

[NCsalt]

I had tons of tiny trochus snails born in my 40B. They never seemed to really grow and were all the same size for a long time. Since my upgrade to a 180 i have seen a half dozen that were 5 to 6 times bigger than those little ones but smaller than any i have bought. They are the only snail i have that legit produce more workers. They also flip themselves back over. Probably one of the best purchasable cleanup crew members.

I have a few blue leg hermits, a tiger conch, some Nassarius snail, one lasting astrea, 4 pithos crabs, sand shifting starfish (2 inch sand bed 60x30 footprint).

I loved my pincushion urchin but he grew fast and was always moving frags. Once all my frags are locked down permanently i will have another.

Never had issues with an emerald crab and i have had at least one giant.

I probably need twice as many snails as i currently have.

 

[Everton Roncaglio]

gg

 

[Mike.]

4 peppermint shrimp, an urchin, a bunch of mexican turbo snails and a bunch of pods

 

[Pseudodiego]

6 tuxedo urchins
Around 30 Trochus
8 fighting conchs
3 sand shifting starfish
2 cucumbers
1 serpent starfish
1 Sand shifting goby

250 gallon.

Only the tuxedos are genuinely useful; I consider all the others pretty much useless beyond being interesting animals.

 

[Paul B]

The manatee pair I ordered based on PaulB’s recommendation is likely to give me a clean up crew larger than anyone’s!

Thats great!! How are they doing?



I couldn't even guess how many crabs, snails, shrimp, sea hares or urchins I have as they have been in there for quite a while.

Some I bought, some I collected and I think some came through the glass by osmosis.

























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