Stupid Anthias

what are you feeding? I like to feed they cylopeeze freezer bars. They are small so they stay in the water column well but they cylopeeze pack a big punch!

 

LOL....true, true

I'll eventually get one. All the ones we have now are too big and I'm not keen on adding food specifically for a clean up crew. Before the old 135 went kablooie, there were probably 500 micro-brittlestars. That's really what I want.

Basically, I'm a VERY, VERY, VERY LAZY REEFER. I want to put my hand in a tank to add a new coral and periodically powerhead off my rocks......and that's it. This tanks too new for a cucumber or large brittlestar. I like to customize my clean up crew so that I don't have to do a thing. When I add my pair of fire shrimp, they'll eat uneaten food and also breed to feed corals. The Nerite and Virgin Nerite snails will work on the glass and also eat the cyanobacteria that grows below the sandline so it will be white as opposed to green, brown, black, etc. (That is sooooo ugly and I only have a SSB. How people with DSB's can look at that is beyond me). The Cerith snails will help with that too. The nassarius and bristleworms will keep the sand turned over and eat meaty foods. I'm going to collect some Stomatella snails to clean rock and glass (and breed for coral food). I'll nab some Asterina stars for micro-algaes too. Once I'm fully stocked with fish and have found all of the dead spots in the tanks, I'll throw some spaghetti worms in each of them. I'm not pretending to set up a full ecosystem.....I would just rather use animals so that I can be lazy. If you never allow detritus to collect, you never get the nuisance algaes and you never have to put your hands in the tank.

 

I feed the cyclops cubes. I was told they are similar to cyclopeze, it works really well for mine, if you haven't tried it your fishies don't know what their missing

 

LMAO sorry but thats funny! thanks for the morning laugh ;D

i have anthias also and sleeper gobies do a great job keeping the bottom clean. i had a large one, but he only lived a month and one day i just found him dead its hard for me to believe he didnt get enough food. since i feed so much for the anthias. than bought 2 small sleeper goby's... both jumped, and threw a opening on a homemade top that is so small, i dont get it.
i like your ideas on a clean up crew. after my last goby jumped i added more of the nassarius snails. like the whole concept of the lazy reefer

 

i guess i got lucky mine eat out off everything ground , rock , any were in the water