How good of a clean up crew

Is this a good clean up crew for a 75 gal with corals, anemones, etc (check sig for inhabitants)
70 Dwarf Ceriths
31 Nassarius
18 Florida Ceriths
11 Blue Legs
12 Large Nerite

 

Looks pretty good to me. Might be a few too many Nassarius with the five fish you have as they don't eat algae. You plan to add many more fish? All the others in your list eat algae and should be fine...

Assume you got your numbers from John at Reefcleaners.org? If so, he's pretty good at picking the number and type. (btw, you might order 70 dwarf cerths, you'll probably get 125-150)

 

Yeah I plan on adding a couple more fish
you know any unique ones?

 

I would cut that in half or less.. but that's just me.. I know you'll see things recommending more but I just think it's way too much. Start with less and if you find yourself needing more then add more.

 

huh the dude at reefcleaners.org begs to differ

 

eh i dont even remember what i got but it was somthin along those lines from that same site , got it all on tuesday the dwarf ones are extreamly small

 

awesome ^

 

personally I would rather have just a bunch of snails to make my tank spotless. If they eat all the algae then you can always give them some algae sheets. but i think john knows what he is talking about.
after they clean it up you can always take a few snails to the lfs for credit too.

 

I get my CUC from reefcleaners, too. I have a 75g, and I only use about 10 nassarius, I have about 15 nerite snails, 3 mexican turbo snails, about the same amount of dwarfs as you have, and I only have 3 Florida cerith left, because my blue legs always manage to eat them rather quickly. I thought I had more Florida cer. but they were just shells with crabs in them. Oh well! I watch for specials at reefcleaners.org and I'll top-off my CUC as needed.

 

+1 I would cut that in half at least. I have about 20 assorted snails (or less) in my 160g and I don't have any algae or detritus issues.