DaveR11
Well-Known Member
My tank is now 4 months old. It is a Red Sea S-650 and my clean-up crew consists of the following:
I've been through a number of algae phases - brown diatoms, green film, green hair, red cyano. Now all I have is a little green film on the glass which needs a clean every couple of days, some harder to shift green spot algae, the odd bit of bubble algae and various hues of coraline. My concern is my CUC are running out of food. All my fish are in the hospital tank after the Ich outbreak but in another month (hopefully) they will be back in the tank including a yellow tang. My concern is the algae eating part of the CUC are running low on food and this will get worse when the yellow tang goes back in. I'm still feeding the shrimp and LPS corals every 3 days with Mysis
My questions are:
- 6 red-legged hermit crabs
- 4 large black footed Trochus snails (down from 6) plus hundreds of babies
- 1 Large Mexican Turbo snail
- 5 Nassarius snails (down from 6)
- 1 Peppermint shrimp
- 5 Astraea tecta snails
- Lots of Stomatella snails (at least 30 of various sizes)
- 1 Strombidae fighting conch
- 1 Large 'caramel' snail (lives in the sand)
- 5 Cerith snails
I've been through a number of algae phases - brown diatoms, green film, green hair, red cyano. Now all I have is a little green film on the glass which needs a clean every couple of days, some harder to shift green spot algae, the odd bit of bubble algae and various hues of coraline. My concern is my CUC are running out of food. All my fish are in the hospital tank after the Ich outbreak but in another month (hopefully) they will be back in the tank including a yellow tang. My concern is the algae eating part of the CUC are running low on food and this will get worse when the yellow tang goes back in. I'm still feeding the shrimp and LPS corals every 3 days with Mysis
My questions are:
- Is it too large a CUC for the size of tank?
- Should I supplementary feed with nori?
- If I were to downsize the CUC which to trade in? I'm looking at you Mr Mexican Turbo....