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Posted	clean up crew?
21-02-2006 18:42 by luke	i have no clean up crew, what is the best crew to have i have a 240 litre tank with 2 external canisters, skimmer, uv sterilizer and a internal filter 6 clowns, 5 green chromis and a toadstool coral hoping to add more corals in the future
21-02-2006 21:30 by drummerduck	Get some turbo snails, red leg hermits, sifting starfish.... crabs in general seem to be a good crew. Arrow crabs can be good clearing up small bristleworm. Sea Hairs are quite good as part of a crew but have a tendancy to pull themselves over corals as i found out. Hope this helps. DD
21-02-2006 21:40 by niac	pleanty of hermits to deal with hair algae, and pleanty of turbos to deal with diatoms
21-02-2006 21:50 by drummerduck	Are turbo snails tempremental as i have found a few dead in my tank while others carry on cleaning? I'm wondering if small bristleworm get into the shells and kill them? anyone have any ideas why?
21-02-2006 21:59 by niac	Sometimes hermits need ot grow and steal the shells of turbos, so its always a good idea to ask the LFS if they have any empty large hermit shells you can put in your tank.
21-02-2006 22:10 by drummerduck	No there are not being taken over..... there are other shells in the tank for them to crawl into and look around. Unless they try... kill the snail then think... maybe not! I just find them.... dead, still inside?
21-02-2006 22:13 by niac	if they land on there back, they can die, sometimes fish peck at them and they fall off the glass and land on there back. The ytry and rescue themselves but slowly die. if you see one on their back turn them over and put them on a secure rock.
21-02-2006 22:21 by drummerduck	Thats probably the likely reason..... many thanks niac.
22-02-2006 13:45 by Alan	One thing to be carefull of when mixing hermits and turbos is the risk of the hermit predating on the snails generally turbos are untouched but if you want to nausarius or cerith snails forget the hermits and go for an all snail clean up crew and a tang. Or a redspot flymo goby.
22-02-2006 13:49 by Alan	turbos are very prone to osmotic shock so give them plenty of time to aclimatise spend about 2 hours to be on the safe side. Sand sifting stars are also good as well as sea urchins if your tank is big enough and brittle stars, take care with serpeant stars some will actively hunt fish I caught mine doing it once so I now feed it regularly it seems to keep this tendancy in check.
22-02-2006 16:17 by ace	HEY BE SURE SNAIL IS REALLY DEAD AS MINE WAS ON ITS BACK FOR THREE DAYS DIDN,T MOVE AT ALL, I WAS SURE ITS DEAD BUT NEXT DAY IT GOT UP AND WAS BACK TO NORM.
22-02-2006 23:10 by drummerduck	oops!!! i'll keep that in mind for the future. cheers....

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