Diatoms be gone

I am having some diatoms growing all over my sandbed and rocks. What would be a good clean up crew for them? I was thinking of getting about 35 dwarf ceriths and about 10 large nerites. Does this sound OK for eating diatoms?

 

If it's just diatoms from a newly set-up tank they will die out on their own after a few days.

 

i went with 2 turbos and a blue leg hermit and they had it cleaned up in less than a week....plus they're cheap and i know there's enough food for em

 

Well the tank isn't new I bought it from a guy online he had it running for about 3 years and I reset it up at my house. It has been setup for 2 weeks at my house now and all the fish (coral beauty, yellow tang, and purple dottyback) are doing great but the diatoms started popping up about a week ago and now they are all over the sandbed. I heard that diatoms will starve themselves out but I still want a CUC, so are 30 dwarf ceriths and 10 large nerites good to start with?

 

Also will keeping the tank lights off for a couple days help the diatoms go away faster?

 

jhawkor, um... that would be a start of a CuC for some tanks, sure... how big is your tank?

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-Doug

 

Sorry, my tank is a 75 gallon. I'll add my info into my sig tonight