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I would get a "build your own" cleanup crew from LiveAquaria.com. if you get over $60 worth, you get free shipping. you can pick from all the different types of inverts like blue leg hermits, scarlet hermits, porcelain crabs, emerald crabs, urchins, peppermint/cleaner/coral banded shrimp, etc. in a 40br you can easily get $60 of CUC and not overcrowd the tank.
i would do
1 cleaner shrimp
1 coral banded shrimp
2 peppermint shrimp (unless you want to catch you own)
1 porcelain crab (you can also catch these at Galveston)
1 sally lightfoot crab
1 emerald crab
20 blue leg hermit crabs
1 short spine urchin
12 nassarius snails
12 small turbo snails
do keep in mind that your CUC can suffer and die if you try to stock up big time on a new/young tank that doesn't have much for them to eat.
this is what www.reefcleaners.org sent me for my 40b for cuc and refugium. how does this set look to you guys. what would u add or take out ?
30 Dwarf Ceriths
11 Nassarius
12 Florida Ceriths
9 Assorted Hermits
4 Large Nerite and 7 Small to medium Nerites
1 five pack of mangroves
1 chaeto
Toss out the mangroves. Cheato is more effective then most refugium algea. Other then that looks good. Maybe a cleaner or peppermint shrimp (2 or 4), emerald crabs (4) and maybe toss out the assorted hermits. You could end up with some snail murders. Stick to scarlet legs or blue legs for hermit.
I wouldnt get shrimp until its a little more established. They are a little more expensive and a little less resilient than the CUC. I usually get them when I add fish. Emerald crabs are overrated dont get them for the same reason as hermits they just knock crap over and once they taste prepared foods they dont do much on hair algae.
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