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losing hermits
Seems like a large cleanup crew for a small tank and load. I had a similar experience and had one of my local LFS workers come over to look at my tank. After grounding probes and nitrate sponges(even though all parameters were good). He took one look at my 65 gallon tank and said they were starving to death nothing to eat. Although I feed my tank heavily every other day. HE proved it by placing a frozen cube of food under an overhang and in minutes every hermit and snail in the tank was headed towards the food. He explained that initially our tanks go through an algae stage were there is plenty to eat for all. But gradually with good husbandry this susides and we no longer need that large of a clean up crew. I personally am down to 2 large nassiruss,4astreas,6nerites and 4 hermits and my tank is spotless. If you take care of your tank you do not need the large clean up crew as advertised.
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