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01-23-2005, 06:29 PM
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| Medium Fish  Join Date: Nov 2004
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|  Clean up crew Right now my tankl has been cyxxling for five weeks everything looked good but then i decided to changed my crushed coral fo rsand...not live jsut regular sand.... i have two blue legged hermit crabs in there right now... what mro ewould i need to add for a clean up crew..what more coul di add for that matter?
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01-23-2005, 06:42 PM
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| how big is the tank again?
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01-23-2005, 08:40 PM
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| you'll want snails and cleaner shrimp, as well as sand-sifting starfish.
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01-23-2005, 09:18 PM
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| its a 5.5 galloon...sorry i forgot to say that. It has a hob whisper filter that is big enough for the a ten gallon aquirium and has a 50/50 15 watt bulb. um it has 5-6 lbs of live rock and the sand.
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01-23-2005, 09:39 PM
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| you dont need a cleaner shrimp maybe 2 hermit crabs, 5 snails (margaritas, ceriths, etc)
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01-23-2005, 10:35 PM
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| thank you very much.... i currently have to hermit crabs but i recently had an algae outbreak that i took care of when i changed my substrate
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01-24-2005, 10:18 AM
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| You could always get a cleaner if you wanted it...but you have to feed it.
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01-24-2005, 09:04 PM
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| i got a peppermint shrimp and teh lfs guy said that is could just graze on my algea on my live rock , but i though ti shoudl doubl echeck with you guys, also he convinced me to but a green star polyp rock that is pretty cool as well as a zoo polyp rock that i both i have near the very top of my tank...with a 15 watt 50/50 wat bulb, and when i say near i mean 2 cm from being out of water close too...is this okay i currently have them in low to medium current?
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01-24-2005, 10:46 PM
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| the zoanthids and GSP should probably do ok up there...the peppermint shrimp will scavenge, though more on little critters in your LR and uneaten fish food than algae
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01-25-2005, 12:22 AM
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| peppermints are known to eat polyp corals..... With a 15 watt 50/50 I think putting them near the top would be perfect. Rememeber to change the lights every 6 months or less. 
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