Choice of cleanup crew for uneaten food

[mjck]

Currently I have 2 skunk/cleaner shrimp as cleanup crew. These guys are quite aggressive when it comes to feeding time. Scrambling fanatically, picking off food from coral tentacles and even digging into coral mouths to retrieve food.

Are there any better behaved shrimps that doesn't terrorize the rest or any other alternatives that will perform the job w/o the aggression? I do have a decorator crab and another unknown crab... But u never see them come out to 'work'

Cheers

[peacemaker]

IME, nassarius snails are pretty good in this area if you have a sandbed. Not that they can't survive in a bare bottom tank, just that it is always fun to watch them emerge from within the sand in almost an instant like zombies.

[mjck]

Yes have bed, Thanks!

[sherman]

Snails are better cleaner crew then hermit crab and shrimps.

Hermit crabs really knock down a lot of fraq along their path

[mjck]

Agree with the hermit. Have a larger blue eyed hermit that always knocks frags down/over . I had to put him in the sump. The smaller scarlet red hermits are still ok, but they don't seem to be very hardworking and only appears at night..

[unltd]

Get a huge army of sexy shrimps! But.... They eat very little.....

[peacemaker]

Always be wary of anything with claws...

[mjck]

Thanks for the advise. No more clawed critters for me. Just got some nassarius snail from jireh.

[sherman]

Or you can get them from Pinacles.

Only $1 per snail

[mjck]

Or you can get them from Pinacles.

Only $1 per snail

$1!!!!! Ok confirmed kenah hacked carrot liao

[dnsfpl]

how much is jireh selling?

other lfs like cf n ah beng sell around $2

[mjck]

Five gold coins each!

[LittleBurger]

I got 2 blood shrimps which is always out in the open. Will scavenges food on sand bed n 1 like to kahjiao the sun corals. Find tat blood shrimps better than skunk shrimps in terms of behaviour.

But feel tat the species behaviour differs from the area they were captured. I got many blood shrimps b4 but all super mia shrimps. Only this most recent purchase they will go out when they know is feeding time.

The other way is feed the shrimps 1st before feeding yr corals.

[Ah-lim]

1 x brittle star fish. 4 yrs old liao. Clear everything on the sea bed.

[samuel88]

Get a huge army of sexy shrimps! But.... They eat very little.....

I wouldn't say sexy shrimps are very reef safe though. Snails are great as well as hermit crabs, just becareful of them knocking over your rocks, unless you get smaller ones.