What to feed turbo snails and hermits when no algae?

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We bought 10 turbo snails and 12 blue legged hermits to help keep our
tank clean. We were having a problem with brown algae. Well I woke up
yesterday, and not one spot of algae left. Buggers must have been busy
that night. Now I am concerned that they may not have enough to eat.
What can I feed them besides algae?

Thanks

Jen

[Ray Martini]

I would think you could suppliment the tank with macroalgae or any other
algae type foods from the LFS. Do you have alot of live rock in the tank? I
probably have 12 turbos plus 2 big Mexican Turbos and 20 or so blue legged
crabs and 8 scarlets. There's 100 lbs of rock in the tank so their
constantly busy and doing well.

I sometimes throw a couple algae discs in there just in case someon wants
them.


> wrote in message
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> We bought 10 turbo snails and 12 blue legged hermits to help keep our
> tank clean. We were having a problem with brown algae. Well I woke up
> yesterday, and not one spot of algae left. Buggers must have been busy
> that night. Now I am concerned that they may not have enough to eat.
> What can I feed them besides algae?
>
> Thanks
>
> Jen
>

[Marc Levenson]

You don't need to feed them anything. They'll find food on
their own, especially once you have fish and daily tank
feedings occuring.

Marc


wrote:
> We bought 10 turbo snails and 12 blue legged hermits to help keep our
> tank clean. We were having a problem with brown algae. Well I woke up
> yesterday, and not one spot of algae left. Buggers must have been busy
> that night. Now I am concerned that they may not have enough to eat.
> What can I feed them besides algae?
>
> Thanks
>
> Jen
>

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