The water quality seems ok. I bought an established tank (used) and it had
gone way downhill before I got it. I recured the live rock for a number of
weeks, and replaced all the water. The corraline is becoming reestablished,
and I'm interested in finding a crew to eat the remnants of the dying hair
algae (which has greened up a little with the lights) and the other algaes
before they reintroduce phosphates, etc into the tank. I've got zero
nitrates, nitrites, ammonia, high calcium, reasonable carbonate hardness, no
detectable phosphate, very little iron, and I have very stable salinity
(1.0235). The PH is about 8.4, which is higher than I'd like, but not too
bad. It's been stable for over a month since I saw it cycle (very soft
cycle).




"kim gross" wrote in message
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Greg E. wrote:
I'm looking for a cleaner crew for my new tank (I got it used, and
there's a
lot of hair algae, some cyano, and a little green slime, but not TOO
bad.)

I'm concerned about cost, reliability of delivery, and quality of the
merchandise. Any suggestions? Anecdotes? Experience?

I've been focussing on Garf, reeftopia, sal****erfish.com and
marinedepot,
but I'm open to other suggestions.

-Greg


To be honest before I worried alot about getting a cleaner crew I would
work on your water quality, normally lots of hair algea, cyano and green
slime are all signs of very low water quality.

Also before I went with mail order I would check your local fish stores
unless you order quite a bit the shipping costs will eat up all of the
savings over your local store.

If you must order online, of the ones you have listed they all of lots
of good customer reviews and a few upset customers so you should get
good service from all of them.

Kim Gross
www.jensalt.com