5.5 gallon CUC

[kbuser92]

Right now I have 3 Blue Leg Hermits and 1 Margarita whom Im trading for Astreas. Im thinking of 5 hermits, 2 Astreas, 2 Nassarius and a Scarlet Skunk. Does this sound okay? Do I have room if I wanted to toss a couple Scarlet Reef Crabs in, too?

 

[Bifferwine]

I think that sounds okay. But I would pass on adding any more crabs unless some time goes by and you see that you need more CUC.

 

[kbuser92]

I have 3 right now, can I add 2 more or wait?

 

[markrj]

I have a 75 gallon that I started around December 8, 2011.

My CUC consists of:

2 Turbos (1 suffers from "up side down" disease)
3 Margaritas
5 Blue Leg Hermits
2 Nassarius
1 Stoma <- LR Hitch Hiker

They are cleaning the algae very nicely. Slowly, but I am not in a hurry. I don't ever want to starve any of them so I started with just 1 Margarita, 2 Nassarius and 1 blue leg hermit. Added the Two Turbos and 2 more blue leg hermits a week later and a week later added two more Margaritas and two more blue leg hermits. I first noticed the Stoma about a week ago.

I'm pretty happy with this small crew. The one hermit crab hardly ever rests or even stays in one spot for very long.

 

[markrj]

Correction.

The Nassarius are actully Cerith Snails.