CUC Advice Please

[Shaunalynna]

Just started two tanks or they have been up a short time anyhow and have fish and seahorses. I need CUC's though and want to know what to add and how many of each I should. I will include below tank information.

(1st) I have a JBJ 28gal Nano. There is live rock in there and fish as well as a few coral pieces. I do have 2 snails and about 2 blue crab hermits in there as a temo crew but need a full crew. I had a CUC on order from a site but they never sent it and took my money! I can't get an answer from them for anything now. I also need help from CUC members that will help with hair algae as I am fighting this to.

(2nd) I have a 14gal Biocube Nano. There is 2 seahorses in there and my yellow goby. I also have two tiny blue hermits in here as well but need a safe full CUC.

Can you please help? I need to know what creatures are sugested for both tank set ups and how many I should get of each plus any reasonable place to order from would be awesome. My LFS is to expensive I believe!

 

[NaH2O]

You want to stay towards smaller numbers, but you want a variety of snails. I would focus more on snails right now, as opposed to crabs. Which type of snails do you currently have? I would check out some of our sponsors for clean up crews. You can order snails from Premium Aquatics, Marine Depot, Live aquaria, etc.

I would try a mixture of nerite, cerith, trochus, and if you can get your hands on small turbos, then turbos. If you have a sandbed, then I'd try and add nassarius snails, too. These will help in cleaning up any left over food on the sand bottom.

Hmmm - for the 28 gallon, I'd try 2 of each to start out with, and manually remove some of the hair algae while you are performing your water change. Just make sure the siphon removes the algae and it doesn't go floating around the tank.

For the 14 gallon, Just do half the amount of snails you put on the 28 gallon .