Is this too much or too little clean up crew for a 75 gallon tank?

[Pepper Reefer]

Hello,
I am planning out my clean up crew for my 75 gallon tank
I understand that initially, before the tank is established, you should do less clean up crew or risk some of them starving (and to supplement the algae eating fish with nori!) so I would not be adding them all at once (of course!)
I understand that every tank is different, and requires a different number of clean up crew
If it helps, it'll be an LPS tank, so not too crazy high light for algae growth

Stocking list:

Tomini tang

Lawnmower blenny

Sand sifting goby - after establishing tank, track health & supplement diet

Mandarin dragonet - after long established copepod population, enough for both dragonet and the wrasse

Pink streaked wrasse - after long established copepod population, enough for both dragonet and the wrasse

Royal gramma (not cuc)

Yellow clown goby (not cuc)

Scarlet skunk cleaner shrimp

Tuxedo urchin

Fighting conch

Sand sifting sea star

5 trochus snails

5 nassarius snails

5 cerith snails

5 nerite snails

What I am currently thinking is the snails + tomini + lawnmower blenny initially, and then adding the others as the tank establishes and making sure there is enough food for all of them. Adding a new fish 1 a month, quarantining etc.
Is this okay?
Should I be doing more of anything, less of anything? I don't want to starve my clean up crew!

Thank you very much for your help & advice!

 

[vetteguy53081]

Hello,
I am planning out my clean up crew for my 75 gallon tank
I understand that initially, before the tank is established, you should do less clean up crew or risk some of them starving (and to supplement the algae eating fish with nori!) so I would not be adding them all at once (of course!)
I understand that every tank is different, and requires a different number of clean up crew
If it helps, it'll be an LPS tank, so not too crazy high light for algae growth

Stocking list:

Tomini tang

Lawnmower blenny

Sand sifting goby - after establishing tank, track health & supplement diet

Mandarin dragonet - after long established copepod population, enough for both dragonet and the wrasse

Pink streaked wrasse - after long established copepod population, enough for both dragonet and the wrasse

Royal gramma (not cuc)

Yellow clown goby (not cuc)

Scarlet skunk cleaner shrimp

Tuxedo urchin

Fighting conch

Sand sifting sea star

5 trochus snails

5 nassarius snails

5 cerith snails

5 nerite snails

What I am currently thinking is the snails + tomini + lawnmower blenny initially, and then adding the others as the tank establishes and making sure there is enough food for all of them. Adding a new fish 1 a month, quarantining etc.
Is this okay?
Should I be doing more of anything, less of anything? I don't want to starve my clean up crew!

Thank you very much for your help & advice!

You can add 5 astrea and 3 turbo snails
Add snails as you start to see signs of algae or even diatoms

 

[Pepper Reefer]

You can add 5 astrea and 3 turbo snails
Add snails as you start to see signs of algae or even diatoms

Thank you!
Would it be fine (after fishless cycling) to start with these:
>Tomini tang
>Lawnmower blenny
>5 trochus snails
>5 nassarius snails
>5 cerith snails
>5 nerite snails
>5 astraea snails
>3 mexican turbo snails
and then as needed, add more of each kind?

once they are all in, do I have too many sand sifting feeders for a 75 gallon, 2 inch sand bed?
>sand sifting goby
>fighting conch
>5 cerith snails
>sand sifting sea star
or should that be fine? I don't want my goby to be starving!

 

[vetteguy53081]

Thank you!
Would it be fine (after fishless cycling) to start with these:
>Tomini tang
>Lawnmower blenny
>5 trochus snails
>5 nassarius snails
>5 cerith snails
>5 nerite snails
>5 astraea snails
>3 mexican turbo snails
and then as needed, add more of each kind?

once they are all in, do I have too many sand sifting feeders for a 75 gallon, 2 inch sand bed?
>sand sifting goby
>fighting conch
>5 cerith snails
>sand sifting sea star
or should that be fine? I don't want my goby to be starving!

Star , goby and nassarius are the sifters and acceptable. After cycle, there will be chemistry changes and spikes and Id wait again until you are seeing signs of diatoms and algae

 

[Sink_or_Swim]

Thank you!
Would it be fine (after fishless cycling) to start with these:
>Tomini tang
>Lawnmower blenny
>5 trochus snails
>5 nassarius snails
>5 cerith snails
>5 nerite snails
>5 astraea snails
>3 mexican turbo snails
and then as needed, add more of each kind?

once they are all in, do I have too many sand sifting feeders for a 75 gallon, 2 inch sand bed?
>sand sifting goby
>fighting conch
>5 cerith snails
>sand sifting sea star
or should that be fine? I don't want my goby to be starving!

My diamond goby and single strawberry conch keep my 2-4" deep sandbed in my 75 gallon sparkly clean. I have a couple nassarius left, but my melanurus wrasse ate the other 5 or 6 I used to have. The goby is a beast - I'm pretty sure a sand sifting star would starve in my tank, and for reference it's a year old. Just my 2 cents!