C.U.C. Suggestion

I have a 36 gallon tank. been up and running about 4 months. I am starting to get a little green algae in the tank (very minor). I have put in over the 4 months
10 zebra hermit
2 dwarf blue leg hermits
4 scarlet reef hermits
10 nessarious snails
1 blue tuxedo urchin
1 emerald crab

What else do you guys recommend? I dont want snails climbing the glass all the time. Thats why I dont have turbo snails.

 

my dwarf ceriths only come out when the lights are off.. and when the lights turn on they fall off the glass and hide. i think thats pretty generic for them

 

Same here

 

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I have always had good luck with Emerald crabs. More often than not, when I get a new stock of them, literally the second I let them out andthey hit the rock they start munching on the algae. They are efficient little buggers. So maybe up your Emerald count. However, turbos are the way to go to clean the glass and rocks. They are especially good at getting to places that other things cant. So if you can stomach the snailing around, they are well worth it

 

How much LR do you have? I have a few dozen snails in my tank, and I rarely see any of them on the glass. Mostly just when night viewing. That includes turbos, astrea, and some nassarius snails (that only make the occasional trip on the glass before they fall off).

They keep my LR and sand pretty clean though.

 

Even the turbos only come on the glass at night. I have 40lbs in a 36g aquarium. Stacked as high as I can with out it falling.