What kind of cleaning fish/shrimp/snails can i put in a Clown Fish aquarium? and what are the best?
Posted on Sep 11, 2008 under shrimp fish |
The tank will be 20-30 gallons.
Small blue leg hermit crabs
Small scarlet reef hermit crabs
Astraea snails
Cerith snails
Nassarius snails
Trochus snails
Skunk cleaner shrimp (common cleaner shrimp)
Small red seastar
Sand sifting sea star
Lawnmower Blennie (fish)
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All of these would be good but it would be nice to know how big your tank is so I can give you a quantity of each.
I have about 70 hermits in a 75gal reef tank and about the same for an assortment of snails about half of them Astraea snails.
Hope this helps.
August 15th, 2007 at 2:29 pm
gallons wouldbegood to know.
cleaner wrasse might be popular, but they are alittle harder to care for and would like a slightly large tank.
there is a red cleaning shrimp what would be good for smaller tanks and require much less care.
Another popular would be the blue line or goldline goby.
Snails- i dont believe there are any that would clean fish, but you can add them to help remove algae from the glass. Turpedo snails are fairly common.
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August 15th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
You do have the Clown fish in a salt-water tank, right. Ya don't need any "cleaning" fish. If you want to ad shrimp to look nice, go for it. As for snails, they are more mess than good. Go without them. Don't think a snail would live in salt water.
Why not put in another pretty fish instead of a scavenger, which you don't need.
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August 15th, 2007 at 2:35 pm
sucker cats and sharks, but if you ad snales, you will have the breeding so much, that you will be cleaning the outside of your tank and all in your room , , there are a large snail, they will breed but they seam to grow large fastly and remain in the tank. but, still will be a lot of snales for you to get rid of//
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August 15th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
Small blue leg hermit crabs
Small scarlet reef hermit crabs
Astraea snails
Cerith snails
Nassarius snails
Trochus snails
Skunk cleaner shrimp (common cleaner shrimp)
Small red seastar
Sand sifting sea star
Lawnmower Blennie (fish)
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/scateg.cfm?pCatId=420
All of these would be good but it would be nice to know how big your tank is so I can give you a quantity of each.
I have about 70 hermits in a 75gal reef tank and about the same for an assortment of snails about half of them Astraea snails.
Hope this helps.
References :