MY tank is 110 gallons and just wondering, how many of each cleaner I need (or what recommended)
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As long as you have room all the way around I would get a fighting conch, they are great sand sifters. Ignore the word fighting, just get one, not 2 as that is where the fighting comes into play. Nassarius snails, cerith snails, hermits, definitely a variety, but as Lavey 29 said, start slow based on tank needs, or they will starve.MY tank is 110 gallons and just wondering, how many of each cleaner I need (or what recommended)
Reefcleaners.org and start with a package for 1/2 tank size. When algae gets bad, the other half.MY tank is 110 gallons and just wondering, how many of each cleaner I need (or what recommended)
I currently have notStart slow and work your way up in numbers. Too many CUC in a tank without enough food/algae to scavenge is going to lead to mass die off and pollution in the water.
You want a cleaner sandbed? Go with Nassarius, A conch, and if your tank is old enough a sand sifting starfish. If your tank is new,go with Nassarius only first. You want less algae on your rocks? Go with trochus, Turbo or an Urchin if you really have a lot, but they might/will remove coralline algae from what I have read.
Trochus 1 per 3 Gallon
Cerith 1/3 Gallon
Conch 1/20 Gallon
Nerith 1/5-10Gallon
Astrea 1/3Gallon
Nassarius 1/5Gallon
Turbos 1/5-10Gallon
Hermit (YMMV with each specie)
Urchin 1/50Gallon
*These are rule of thumb I found quickly on the web, you may want to look at other 100G build for inspiration*
How I personnaly do it for now, since I'm new in the hobby is I built my CUC over the course of the 3 first month and each time I went to my LFS for something I would add to my bill 1 or 2 Trochus or whatever snail I wanted next.
Lets say the rule of thumb is 1 snail per 10G, well you need 11 trochus. But you should only really start with 2-3 then work your way up based on the look of the tank. No more algae for them to eat and they died... good you didn't waste 8 snails.
Pictures would help with your build, but I would start with something like:
3 Trochus
2 Cerith
1 Conch (if you have a sandbed)
1 Hermit of choice
then work you way up from there.
Okay good.I currently have not
set it up, i just have a bunch of equipment including the tank
What kind of pump would you recommend for my setup? The sump is around 45 gallons I think, it is an aqeeon sumpOkay good.
Read this then https://melevsreef.com/articles/get-clean-crew-cuc-your-reef
ill prob just wait till I start having nuisance growth and then buy a few and base from thereFor my 125 I waited a bit until I had some algae growth and then started small, so 3 ceriths, 3 nerites, 3 margaritas, 2 nassarius, and a fighting conch. I also want to add some trochus snails in there, but there's no real rush. The plan is to wait and see what the tank shows me and then add accordingly. For newer tanks especially it's easy to overbuy on your cuc and then have a bunch of them starve themselves.
Exactly.ill prob just wait till I start having nuisance growth and then buy a few and base from there