[Rael]

I have a 40 gal reef and I seem to be getting a fair amount of algae lately, both green hair and red slime. What size cleaning crew do you recommend? I currently have 2 small emerald crabs, 2 scarlet legged hermits and about 12 snails (mixture of marguarita, astra, and cerith). Should I get a bunch more snails? Anything else?

[dfurbee]

The emerald are good for the GHA, you probably need more cerith snails, astra snails, and you could get some mexican red leg crabs, which do an excellent job on algae. Also a tongan fighting conch will eat hair algae as well. They have good deals on web sites. Reefscavengers.com is a good site also for inverts.

[pyromaniac398]

I would get more hermits and probably my snails like debra said. I have 10 blue legs and 15 red legged hermit crabs in my 20g long. I like the mexican turbos, but some people don't like them because if they die they leave a big stink in your tank.