Cleaning crew selection and open to suggestions

[Old Man Of The Sea]

OK, its been a while, but I wanted to make a selection to what I might or can get and not just leave it up to everyone else.

I located what I can with the free time which was available to me for I need now to move to the next step and make a fish selection for which SPS corals will be last here being that I will not look at add any to the tanks until pass the 5th month of age for the tanks. Now the list below, only snails and hermits will be added to the tanks in the beginning months and the other selections wont be added until a much later date while the tank ages, they will be added slowly. If im missing anything, please do make it a suggestion for me to look into and any comments to the selection you see here, im all ears (eyes)

Fighting Conch(Strombus spp.)
Chitons (When they become available)
Tiger Tail Sea Cucumber (Holothuria sp.)
Edible Sea Cucumber (Holothuria edulis)
Papillate Sea Cucumber/Light-Spotted Sea Cucumber (Holothuria hilla)
Alabaster Worm Cucumber (Opheodesoma sp.)
Turbo Snail Mexican (Turbo fluctuosa)
Turbo Snail (Turbo sp.)
Astraea Turbo Snail ((Astraea tecta)
Red Scarlet hermit crabs (Paguristes cadenati)
Blue-Legged Hermit Crabs (Clibanarius tricolor)Peppermint Shrimps (Lysmata wurdemanni)
Scarlet Skunk Cleaner Shrimp (Lysmata amboinensis)
Blood Red Fire Shrimp (Lysmata debelius)
Pistol Shrimp (Alpheus sp.)
Indo-Pacific White-Striped Cleaner Shrimp (Lysmata amboinensis)
Blue tuxedo urchin (Mespillia globulus)
Globe Urchin (Mespilia globulus)Emerald Crab (Mithrax sculptus)
Sand Sifting Starfish (Astropecten polycanthus)
Purple Burgundy Sea Star (Tamaria sp.)
Red Sea Star (Fromia milleporella)
Assorted Marble Sea Star (Fromia sp.)
Tiger-striped Fancy Serpent Sea Star (Ophiolepsis superba)
Fancy Banded Serpent Star (Ophiocoma sp.)
Blue Linckia Sea Star (Linckia laevigata)

MERRY CHRISTMAS
Buddy

[BFG]

Currently, I have the Tiger Tail Sea Cucumber (Holothuria sp.) in my tank. What I observe is that this particular species of sea cucumber do not travel far and will lay hidden amongst live rock. It will anchor itself in a particular spot and stretch out it's body and head out onto the sandbed to consume whatever that was on the sandbed. It hates light and will only emerge to clear a particular area of sandbed at night. You won't see this sea cucumber always but you'll noticed the cleaned spot on your sandbed.

Also, I do have about 5 piece of turbo snail but exactly what species it is I am not sure. They do scour the live rock to consume certain algae but the large size I've got will always push coral off their mounting place.

[Old Man Of The Sea]

Thanks and here is how my cleaning crew selection fans out:

Fighting Conch(Strombus spp.)
Chitons (When they become available)
Tiger Tail Sea Cucumber (Holothuria sp.)
Edible Sea Cucumber (Holothuria edulis)
Papillate Sea Cucumber/Light-Spotted Sea Cucumber (Holothuria hilla)
Alabaster Worm Cucumber (Opheodesoma sp.)
Turbo Snail (Turbo sp.)
Astraea Turbo Snail ((Astraea tecta)
Pistol Shrimp (Alpheus sp.)
Blue tuxedo urchin (Mespillia globulus)
Globe Urchin (Mespilia globulus)

And that is possible cleaning crew for I will not have all those cucumbers>

MERRY CHRISTMAS
Buddy

[Mez]

Blue legged hermits are supposed to be a lot more aggressive than the dwarf red legged hermit crabs, and will activley "mug" snails of their shells...
James

[kelstorm]

Blue legged hermits are supposed to be a lot more aggressive than the dwarf red legged hermit crabs, and will activley "mug" snails of their shells...
James

i think all hermits does that

[Goondoo]

i think all hermits does that

OMG!
You're ALIVE!

[Mez]

OMG!
You're ALIVE!

Kel,
they do, but red legs are supposed to be less "prone" to doing so..

[Cough]

Hmm I recommend dwarf zebra crabs, constantly busy workers, they are small, reef-safe and interesting. But do drop some empy shells or they'll attack each other when they seek a bigger shell to live in.