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I'd be suggesting something that looks like this (this is your 50-gallon right??): 15 Scarlet Hermits 5 Trochus 5 Turbo 3 Spiny Astraea 3 Pyramid Astraea 6 Ring Cowrie 6 Nerite 6 Tongan Nassarius 1 Fighting Conch The key is variety. Don't buy the small-type Nassarius or Cerith snails with hermits in the tank - they are just too easy pickings for hermits. My Scarlet Hermits have never touched any of the above suggested snails. I have all of those in my tanks for years. You will probably have to remove 20% of the above numbers once they've trimmed out all the algae. Last edited by Myka; 11-19-2015 at 06:12 PM. |
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Uh yeah, skip the sand dwellers. I'd add CUC and wait a few weeks to see if that makes the difference or not. It doesn't cost much, and it's easy.
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Not the easiest to buy unless one of my friends is going by JL.
So I have a CUC order at CC waiting for the rest to come in next week. Mindy, have you ever used the red leg crabs, similar to the blues, instead of scarlets?
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Oh yeah, I forgot you live in Kamloops. Yeah, the red legs are just as murderous as the blue legs. Scarlets are the only ones I keep - they are worth the extra few bucks.
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Another thing about this algae is that it will not come out. I scrub with a stainless steel wire toothbrush. We removed a large one covered with it and replaced it, which is now covered in algae anyways.
My friend had it in a tub in the dark for a month and the algae actually grew. He took a large wire brush to it and removed nothing. ALGAE FROM HELL This past year must be making up for the 35 good years I had before..
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I think I have the same stuff - probably the crappy water via our over rated kamloops water treatment plant
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