"Clean up crew"

[Cloran]

Was wondering what everybody has to help keep the tank clean? How many shrimp per gallon? Which snails are good, which crabs?

[marinelife]

Nerite, Nassarius, and Cerith Snails

[Cloran]

What about Astraea tecta? How many per 20g tank?

[marinelife]

maybe 5

[Cloran]

Thats all? I figured it be much higher then that? I only have a couple hermit crabs, how many of them?

[marinelife]

Here is the way I look at it, they recommend 1 per gallon but what happens when you had 20 and half die, your tank goes to crap. You add 5-10 and some die and it is not a big deal. You will have death out of some of them, it just happens, nothing can be done to stop it.

[Cloran]

The lfs hopefully will take alot of my cheato as trade in. I'm trying to track down a bubble coral or maybe some blasto's or something like that.

[marinelife]

cool deal

[Reef Junky]

i have two sandsifting stars and a couple shrimp in the 150 plus two turbo snails which i hate. crabs and snails just knock everything off the rocks and break corals etc. i don't add them anymore. plus there survival rate with my wrasse is not good. he thinks there a nice snack.

[reefer3737]

does anyone know if i can cut off the brown stuff of a tube anemane

[marinelife]

I am not sure but mine usually falls off after a while.

[Cloran]

brown stuff?

[marinelife]

The skin I think is what is being asked about.

[reefer3737]

the brown stuff is twice the size

[rayviv]

what brown stuff are you talking about? the end of the tube?

[marinelife]

yeah that stuff!!