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Druid
10/05/2006, 09:16 AM
My tank stats are in my sig. I hope to eventually have a FOWLR...plus some Mushroom and Zoo's...so not really FO :p Fish wise I'm hoping to have a true perc, a royal gramma or a coral beauty, a blue neon gobby and a citron goby.

The clean up crew type animals I can get are...

Cerith snails
Blue leg hermits
Anenome crab (Pom pom crab)
Sand sifting starfish
Orange spot snail
Mithrax Crab
Trochus Snail
Red Leg Hermit (Pylopagurus sp.)
Turbo snail
Tiger tailed cucumber.

What would you get?

I've been advised NOT to ahve a starfish..am happy with that. I've also be told cerith snails are good for stirrign my DSB...correct?

fufi5
10/05/2006, 09:34 AM
Out of your list, I would not get the Tiger Tail cuke (replace it with Nassarius snails) and the coral beauty might nip at corals. The hermits will go after the snail shells if no empty ones are available. I would start with some turbos, ceriths, nassarius & red hermits. Hope this helps.

Druid
10/05/2006, 09:42 AM
I don't think I can get nassarius..I'm very limited by there being literally only 2 marine stores in Ireland, and only one doing a broad range of inverts! I was erring away from the cuke...the idea of it dying and wiping out a whole tank is scary!

The fish are awhiel down the line so I have alot of time to consider wether to get the CB or not :)