Clean up crew?!?!?!!?

[Mikeman]

Ahh the joy of spending 200 bucks on creatures that are an inch big. This is for a 90 to 125g tank. I really need to know what I put in the main tank and the refugium.

The Main Tank!!1

60 nassurius snail
6 astrea snails
6 trochus snails*
6 nerite snails*
30 cerith snails
30 margarite snails
micro stars*
3 of those little red starfish, fromia something
1 red serpant star
1 tiger cucumber
4 peppermint shrimp
4 cleaner shrimp(Hey I'm gona have atleast one hippo, and they're inch prone)
2 sally light foot crab
live sand activator*

I tried to have a equal amout of sand stirers/ detritus eaters with the nassurius, micro stars, shrimp, serpant star, cuke, and alge eater with the snails, and fromia

The refugium

20 reef pods*
6 bristle worms*
wonder mud*
6 strombus grazers*(I figured their eggs would have a better chance of surviving if they were in here)
tang heaven red*
grape caulerpa
tang heaven gold*

*= ipsf

So does is my clean up crew to much, to little, way off from wht I need? thanks

[Mikeman]

^^^

thanks

[Randy V]

That sounds like a great package. If it were me I would make the following changes: I would cut the nassarius in half. I would eliminate the margaritas if you run your reef at 80 deg or higher, as they are a cooler water snail and higher temps seem to cut into their lifespan. I love the cerith snails. I would make sure I had bristle worms in the main tank which you probably do have from the rock, right? I would add spaghetti worms if you don't already have them. Very important component of a clean up crew IMO. I would also add a queen conch. Lastly, could you tell me the benefits of the sallys? I've never understood their neiche.

Good luck and have fun. I love to watch the little guys work.

[afishybusiness]

Sally light foot crabs' main purpose in the reef aquarium is to be mis sold as a "nice crab" and then to eat small fish. Some even take thir role as far as to take chunks out of once attractive corals.;)

[Mikeman]

this tank is more for just fish and maybe a couple of corals so thats why I"m not to worred about the sallies, I've also always had a facination with spiders, and they look just like them so they're more as a"for me thing" then a "good for the tank thing"

I'm right now just seeing what I should do, right now I'm leaning towards making it a fowlr, so then I can get a full size angel of sum type, so I may not be able to keep corals at all

[golfish]

yeah, I would forget the Sally lightfoot's. I have always suspected mine of killing my peppermint shrimp. There not really good for anything.