Question on Clean Up Crew

I'm going to order my clean up crew from reefcleaners this week. So my quesiton is, should i buy all of them at once or split them up? I currently have a blue tuxedo sea urchin and he deffiently needs some help.

Here is what was suggested for my tank:

30 Dwarf Ceriths - small effective cleaners
9 Nassarius
16 Florida Ceriths
12 Blue Legs
6 Large Nerite

1 five pack of mangroves or 1 chaeto or ulva or gracilaira
(only problem with this is i have no where to put these because of no fuge/sump so probably not going to get these)

 

one thing i experienced is that blue legged hermits are more aggressive and more prone to nibble on things you dont want. i would suggest scarlet hemits, they're just as good of a cleaner and less of a threat.

 

okay, if they do the same thing as the blue legged i'll look into getting them instead

 

Dump them all in at the same time. The deplete more then they produce.

 

i do have a lot of algae at the moment, but i worry with the urchin if they'll take all of the food and he wont get any, what happens if you run out of food for the inverts, or is there always something for them to eat in the tank?

 

My hermits cruise around the tank all day busy at work. I think there is a lot for them to eat that you can't really see. I would try and supplement the urchins diet with nori.

 

ok, right now the urchin has been chowing down on some of the GHA on the rocks and stuff, but he's not doing that great of a job, probably to much in there for him. I'm just worry about him once my CUC gets in, but i'll try some nori later on if needed.

 

I added mine in at 1/3 of the recommended list to start, but then the first 3rd was bigger than your whole list

The mangroves you can hang at the back of the tank by poking them thru some egg crate or a piece of styrofoam, the ulva or gracilaira can be planted in the display tank, but some of your fish may decide they are dinner at some point.

The chateo you could confine to a back corner in one of those live bearer breeding net/dividers in order to get the benefits of it without having a sump8)

 

oh cool, i didn't know of this so maybe if i'll attempt to do this so i can get them

 

i would skip[the Nerites my died after a couple months everything else is still going. the rest of ur cuc sounds good