if you're having the tanks with a bare bottom you really don't need a clean up crew besides a sponge and a syphon tube. your fish still look rather small. do you know hold old they are? It can take upwards to 3 years before a pair will form and become mature enough to breed. my pair of snowcassos are 2 years old and are just barely showing signs of breeding.
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your fish have awesome markings.
Thank you for your response. I've read some of your thread as well. I've been to MBI's website and looked around a little bit. The snowcasso's are between 4 - 6 months old. I realize I still have a while before they are ready, but that was also my intent. I have to leave this coming up June to go to Korea for a year. Our intent is for them to ready to breed by the time I get back or shortly after. It is more of an investment then anything right now. And thank you for the compliment.
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Originally Posted by rcombs
a clean up crew is never a bad idea. i dont know what you are wanting, but the best and what most use is usually a mixture of snails and some small hermits. the bigger the hermits the more they seem to prey on the snails for their shells. snails help on keepin the glass clean, and the hermits will help with the grooming of the substrate. are you going to incorporate an anenome at all for the clowns to host?
I have a decent size CUC in my 40 breeder from reefcleaners.org. I was thinking about emailing John at reefcleaners.org and seeing what he thought as well. All of this is my wife's idea, so I'm going to try and talk her into letting me put some LR and maybe a couple of corals in there as well until they are ready to breed. I haven't really planned on putting an anemone in there, just the clay pot was the original idea.
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Originally Posted by FlynnFish
if you're having the tanks with a bare bottom you really don't need a clean up crew besides a sponge and a syphon tube.your fish still look rather small. do you know hold old they are? It can take upwards to 3 years before a pair will form and become mature enough to breed. my pair of snowcassos are 2 years old and are just barely showing signs of breeding.
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