Purchasing Clean up crew

grouper25 · 10/17/2006, 01:01 PM

Anyone have a recomendation where to purchase a clean up crew for a 22 I am just setting up? Just checked out WWW.reeftopia.com and they have some pretty reasonable prices on "lot" buys for a tank of my size.

Thanks,
John

six.line · 10/17/2006, 01:53 PM

i've seen clean up crew ensembles sold together. i personally haven't seen anything that works better than turbo snails, astrea snails, cerith snails, and hermit crabs. you got a lot of varying opinion on hermit crabs. i think they're pretty good, and they've left my crabs alone. i did add a few extra snail shells for good measure just to be sure, though.

in a 22 gallon, i'd probably get 1 turbo snail, 4 cerith snails and 2 astrea snails, and then 3-4 various hermit crabs. i've never seen one kind of hermit crab 'out perform' another kind, so you're pretty much at your leisure to buy according to price or according to look. i personally LOVE scarlet legged hermit crabs.

happy reefing.

Randall_James · 10/17/2006, 01:54 PM

I like small critter crews myself and can not stand hermit crabs (opportunistic predators that love to eat snails and dumb fish)
http://inlandaquatics.com has a detrivore starter kit I like to use. Sure hate paying for it but is has been very effective for me

10/17/2006, 01:01 PM	#1
grouper25 Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: nj Posts: 523	Purchasing Clean up crew Anyone have a recomendation where to purchase a clean up crew for a 22 I am just setting up? Just checked out WWW.reeftopia.com and they have some pretty reasonable prices on "lot" buys for a tank of my size. Thanks, John __________________ Grouper25 Current Tank Info: 220 FOWLR, 75 Reef, 55 Exotix Zoas

10/17/2006, 01:53 PM	#2
six.line Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Logan, UT Posts: 775	i've seen clean up crew ensembles sold together. i personally haven't seen anything that works better than turbo snails, astrea snails, cerith snails, and hermit crabs. you got a lot of varying opinion on hermit crabs. i think they're pretty good, and they've left my crabs alone. i did add a few extra snail shells for good measure just to be sure, though. in a 22 gallon, i'd probably get 1 turbo snail, 4 cerith snails and 2 astrea snails, and then 3-4 various hermit crabs. i've never seen one kind of hermit crab 'out perform' another kind, so you're pretty much at your leisure to buy according to price or according to look. i personally LOVE scarlet legged hermit crabs. happy reefing. __________________ This post approved by Mrs. Sixline. assign <= six.line(#FFFFFF && string("nerdy")) Current Tank Info: 30 gallon with 10 gallon sump

10/17/2006, 01:54 PM	#3
Randall_James Premium Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 6,727	I like small critter crews myself and can not stand hermit crabs (opportunistic predators that love to eat snails and dumb fish) http://inlandaquatics.com has a detrivore starter kit I like to use. Sure hate paying for it but is has been very effective for me __________________ "It's a dog eat dog world and I feel like I am wearing milkbone underwear"