[Little Luey]

We have all heard about the importance of a good clean up crew and to tell you the thruth, I think some of the crew packages are way too many creatures for our tanks. Not to mention the fact that crabs are hunters and will kill some snails and themselves, it just seem to me like a never ending cycle, buy them, get kill, buy again just to get killed.
Is it safe to say that if we try to eliminate the algie we could get away with a minimum crew? I got 3 turbos on my BB 20 gal (from the original 5)and they keep up with eating the algie. I clean the glass and they do the rocks. I also trim the macro once in a while.
I don't like having to spend money on them either, I prefer to get a coral or fish instead.
The rule of 1 snail per galon and 1 crab for 2 galons seem too rigid to me. And then we have the sand shifter crews, which I would think they eat the fauna in the live sand becoming not so live sand after a while. Many fish will do this also so it is realy woth it?

Things that make you go hummm!