Cleanup Crew

[SigEpLucas]

Any recommended clean up crews for a 20g setup?

 

[PufferGuy]

a lot of people will tell you to get either hermits OR snails, since the hermits will sometimes pick off snails and kill them but i keep both and have been fine. Also, i have an emerald crab that is like a hoover in there, so id recomend ond of those as well. So i would say, 10-15 snails, 10-15 hermits and an Emerald Crab

 

[Bifferwine]

I recommend a mixture of snails: one mexican turbo, astraes for the glass, nassarius for the sand, trochus, nerites, ceriths and bumblebees for the rest.

One emerald crab, one serpent or brittle star, and a pair of peppermint shrimp to round it off.

 

[yote]

I agree with both the above posts.

 

[cthegame]

i do too

 

[Keaton]

yep...

 

[BigH55]

10-15 snails sounds like a lot. I had 3 turbos in my nano 12 and they kept it spotless. i would be concerned that after they ate the algae they would starve and then die.

 

[SigEpLucas]

with that size of a clean up crew would it matter if I added them all at one time or should i add them little by little. I don't really know how much waste those kinds of things put off in the tank.

 

[daugherty]

they dont add to the bioload so you could add them all at the same time