Number of Cleanup Crews

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Hello fellow reefers. Never had cleanup crews before. I discovered Reef Cleaners where they sell "Cleaner Packages". I picked a cleaner package that is similar to the size of my tank.

That package contains the following:

170 Dwarf Ceriths - small cleaners that get to the nooks and crannies. Feed on diatoms, cyano, algal detritus, and film algae. Nocturnal cleaners that leave the sandbed at night to search for food.

46 Nassarius - scavengers that will eat leftover food and some fish waste. They will stir sand, but can also be kept in bare bottom tanks.

50 Florida Ceriths - small cleaners that get to the nooks and crannies. Feed on fine hair algae, diatoms, cyano, algal detritus, and film algae. Nocturnal cleaners that leave the sandbed at night to search for food.

40 Nerites - We are currently offering the longer lived and quite hardy Antillean Nerite. (Nerita fulgurans). It grows to a nice size,and consumes a good deal of diatoms, cyano, algal detritus, and film algae. It will also consume some fine hair algae. A nocturnal herbivore that will feed more often at night, they tend to need some time to adjust to the limitations of the aquarium during their first week.

40 Assorted Hermits - A mix of smaller to medium hermit crab species, including red legged, left-handed, jade, white claw and blue leg hermit crabs. These hermits are omnivores, that will feed on leftover food, filamentous (hair) algae and some species of cyanobacteria (cyano).


It seem like a WHOLE lot of cleaners. Is this too much?
 
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You can expect some die off with all of these critters. How big is your tank?
 
That's probably a good amount then. You can always keep some of them in your refugium to help eat leftover food and such
 
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The thing I've noticed with reef cleaners is that a lot of there CUC are physically smaller species. That's probably why for the large numbers of each.

I've ordered from them twice and have been happy both times.
 

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