cleaning crew ?

i have a banded sea serpent star, and i love him. i'd definitely recommend having one in your tank. he's pretty reclusive, but extremely peaceful and i love seeing him occasionally come out and scan the top of the sand bed for detritius/extra pieces of food. he's grown quite a bit since i got him, and they're reasonably priced on top of it all...i actually got him at petco:eek:, but he's worked out great and was only $7.99. oh yeah, and he's really good about eating any livestock that dies. saves me digging a corpse out of the tank...
 
well our tank is pretty grose , brown and now green is starting
The brown is everyehere ,and i think dead worms are littering our LR and sand (stick like things that dont move)
and something is laying eggs .
i think we will start with ace's recomendation ,and feed like woodright did a tad "just in case "
and of course 2 sexy shrimp too keep us happy for 4 to 6 months b4 we put anything else in .We just want something untill then

what is CUC?
 
DUH ...........thanks
I really trust your suggestions ......as you seem as smart as my hubby .and im gonna get hubby to build your invention ,moonlight :-)
i will get what u say but i really have to get the sexy shrimp lol
Which ones eat the diatoms ? we have that covering everything .
Thanks
 
We are getting some green algae but the CUC crew is getting it before it can grow. As far as Red Slim Algae goes, Ashlee has it in her other tank and i know how bad it looks. I just thought that the diatoms came at the end of the cycle? That's why I thought something was going on or wrong.
 
i will have to check your post out and see what you all got lol
going to head to bed thanks all
im excited finally in 4 days if everything goes well ......
and we will be doing our first water change on the weekend .....
That should be interesting lol

We got our tank used and i didnt clean the overflow ... so we got it from the other guy lol
 
You know, I have read that Nas snails eat diatoms but from experience have never seen it. They come out when you feed, eat any food that lands near them, then bury themselves back in the sand. They really don't do much cleaning at all. That is the reason I didn't recommend them. I have some in my tank now.. and while they are cool to watch.. they are just not very helpful.

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honestly i didnt see mine eating too. only when they bury them self (cleans diatom)
for food and fish poop, they the best lol
 
I don't consider sexy shrimp of porcelain crab clean up crew at all. The porcelain is a filter feeder so unless it is a small particle in the water column it isn't going to be eating it. Not sure if you have seen how small that sexy shrimp are either but do know that there is a good chance you'll not see them very much in a 90g. Same is true for a porcelain.

I'd also avoid the blue linkia I risked one and it injured itself and never recovered and I regret ever putting such a beautiful creature in a tank that I may not have even had the right food source for. There are many sources that will tell you that they have no idea what the eat. Pretty darn difficult to make sure you can keep it healthy with that considered.

Some of the worms could be tube worms and could be alive.

For diatoms in a 90g I'd suggest ceriths and turbos. I'd get some nassiarus after a bit longer but not to eat what you see on top, but rather to eat what you don't see in the sand. I have a florida fighting conch as well, they are great for the sandbed and with a 90g you may really enjoy one as well.

I do agree with what others have said about not trying to stock all your clean up crew at once as well.
 
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