An effective cleanup crew is built around three categories: algae grazers, sand stirrers, and detritivores. Get the ratios right and the tank cleans itself.

For a 75-gallon reef

  • 20 trochus snails (algae grazers)
  • 10 nassarius snails (sand cleanup)
  • 10 blue-leg hermits (detritus)
  • 2 cleaner shrimp
  • 1–2 emerald crabs