Tank Cleaners
Assorted Hermits
A random mix of assorted reef safe hermits crabs. Price is for each hermit crab.
Assorted Smaller Conchs
Imported Juvenile specimens of conchs that have a maximum adult size of 3 inches, they consume diatoms, detritus and fine hair algae.
Astraea Snails
Astraea sp. snails (often referred to as Astrea snails) range in diameter from about the size of a nickel to almost the size of a quarter. These snails will consume film and hair algae on the glass and rocks in your aquarium.
Banded Eye Hermit
The Banded Eye Hermit Crab (Paguristes tortugae) will eat hair algae and scavenge in your aquarium. Grows to inhabit shells about 1.5 inches long.
Blue Eyed Hermit
Blue Eyed Hermit Crabs make an attractive addition to the reef tank, and that will eat hair algae and leftover fish food. They grow to inhabit 2" shells.
Blue Knuckle Hermit
Blue Knuckle hermit crabs make an attractive addition to the reef tank, and they are fairly effective cleaners.
Blue Leg Hermit Crab
The Blue Leg Hermit Crab is good at removing hair algae, film algae, detritus and cyanobacteria from your tank.
Brittle Star*
The Brittle Starfish is a scavenger that will feed primarily at night and hide throughout the day.
Cortez Cerith
Cortez snails range in size from an inch to 1.75''. These snails will consume diatoms, detritus, cyano and algae in the substrate as well as on rocks, and glass in your aquarium.
Dwarf Cerith
Eats Diatoms, Algae, Cyano and Detritus on your tanks substrate and on rocks. Very hardy under normal water conditions. Grows to .75''
Dwarf Planaxis
What sets this snail apart from the rest is that it will seek shelter not only under the sand, but under the sand underneath your live rock.
Emerald/Ruby Mithrax Crab
Our crabs are guaranteed to eat bubble algae or we will refund the cost to you.
Empty Cone Shells (4)
This is for an assortment of four empty cone shells, they are used as homes for Halloween Hermit Crabs.
Empty Hermit Shells
Empty shells that will make for great new homes for hermits as they get bigger.
Florida Cerith
Florida Cerith snails range in size from an inch to 2''. These snails will consume diatoms, detritus, cyano and algae in the substrate as well as on rocks, and glass in your aquarium.
Florida Fighting Conch*
Our largest reef safe snail, the word fighting doesn't refer to its temperament, but rather the notch on the front of their shell which resembles a gladiator's helmet.
Fuzzy Chiton*
Consumes algae on your rock work, leaving the area particularly clean. Grows to 3''
Gammarind Amphipods
Gammarind amphipods are detrivores and will also consume algae. The main reason they are purchased for aquariums is to serve as a food source for finicky eating fish.
Imported Hermits
A random mix of assorted reef safe hermits crabs that have been imported from the South Pacific. Price is for each hermit crab.
Juvenile Pincushions*
These juvenile pincushion urchins may grow large, but are only about the size of a half dollar when shipped.
Juvenile Rock Boring Urchin*
Rock Boring Urchins come in different colors, consume complex algae, including calcified algae. They have sharp spines, which can give you a sting comparable to a bee sting if the spine pierces your skin.
Lettuce Sea Slug
Lettuce sea slugs, (Elysia crispata), consume hair algae and other semi-complex macroalgae. However, sea slugs have particular care requirements that make them unsuitable for most reef tanks. Please read the full description.
Limpets
Eats Diatoms, Algae and Detritus on your tanks rocks, and possibly glass. Somewhat hardy under normal water conditions. Grows to 1'' in diameter.
Marginella Snail
The Marginella snail is a small scavenger that will emerge from the sandbed to eat leftover food in the aquarium.
Medium/Larger Empty Hermit Shells
These shells make good homes for larger hermit species and adult hermits. Shells are in the 2-3'' range.
Mexican Red Leg
The Mexican Red Leg hermit is a medium-sized hermit crab that will consume hair algae, leftover fish food and some species of cyano algae.
Mexican Turbo Snail
The Mexican Turbo Snail grows to about the size of a golf ball. It is great at cleaning algae, especially hair algae from larger tanks.
Money Cowrie
The Money Cowrie is a small cowrie, topping out at about the size of a nickel, although oval in shape. An active cleaner that will spend much of its time on the glass and rocks.
Nassarius Vibex
Excellent scavenger and sand stirrer. These snails will come out whenever they smell food, or when you are feeding the fish. These snails do not eat algae; they eat detritus and leftover fish food. There feeding will help maintain your nitrate levels, and clean some of the debris that is building up in your substrate.
Nerite Snail
Eats Diatoms, Cyano, Algae and Detritus on the rocks and glass in your tank. Very hardy under normal water conditions.
Newborn Aquacultured Trochus
Very tiny! These aquacultured Trochus are less than two months old, and 1.5mm in diameter. Please read full description.
Pencil Urchin*
The Pencil Urchin, is a multicolored urchin with dull spines, and is a great addition to a touch tank. This particular urchin will be most active at night, as it is a nocturnal creature. It can grow to 3 inches in diameter .
Peppermint Shrimp
Peppermint shrimp are popular because they eat aiptasia anemones in the aquarium.
Pincushion Urchins*
Pincushion urchins eat a tremendous amount of hair algae, but have some drawbacks. Please read our full description.
Pitho Crab
The Pitho Crab moves slowly through the aquarium slowly picking at algae growing on the rock. They eat a fair amount of hair algae, caulerpa, dictyota, and even bubble algae.
Reef Pods Apocyclops
These Cyclopoid pods are prolific breeders, eating detritus, flake food, phytoplankton, and even algae paste. This copepod moves along the substrate and through the water column.
Reef Pods Tisbe
Tisbe biminensis are tropical Harpacticoid copepod that feeds on surfaces of your aquarium. Great for refugiums, feeding dragonets, pipefish, and seahorses. Eat detritus and fish waste.
Reticulated Brittle Star*
The Reticulated Brittle Starfish is small starfish with long arms. Their central disc grows to about the size Lincoln is on the penny, while their arms can reach out 6 inches. A scavenger that will feed primarily at night and hide throughout the day.
Rock Boring Urchins*
Rock Boring Urchins come in different colors, and have sharp spines. They are good at removing complex algae from large aquariums with stable rock work.
Scarlet Hermit Crab
The Scarlet Hermit (Paguristes cadenati) crab will eat hair algae and scavenge in your aquarium. Grows to inhabit shells about 1.5 inches long.
Sea Cucumber*
Growing to a length of 6-8 inches in captivity, they are excellent sand stirrers, and will consume algae and detritus building up on your sand bed.
Spider Conch*
The large spider conch is a striking addition to the aquarium. It sports a unique shell that can spiral out to 9 inches, but the bulk of the conch is about 3 inches high and 4 inches long when an adult.
Thin Striped Hermit (Medium)
The Thin Striped Hermit Crab is good at removing hair algae, film algae, detritus and cyanobacteria from your tank.
Tongan Nassarius
Larger than Nassarius vibex, the Tongan Nassarius is useful when larger pieces of uneaten food are left behind in the aquarium.
Trochus Snails
Eats Diatoms, Cyano, Algae and Detritus on the rocks and glass in your tank. This is an imported species. Max 5 per customer due to shortages.
Trochus Snails (Very Small)
About penny sized in diameter. Eats Diatoms, Cyano, Algae and Detritus on the rocks and glass in your tank. This is an imported species.
Virgin Nerites
A very small species of Nerite that will consume film algae, cyanobacteria, diatoms, and some hair algae.
Zebra Turbo Snail
The Zebra Turbo Snail grows to about the size of a softball, but we ship them much smaller than that. It is great at cleaning algae, especially hair algae from larger tanks.
Zig Zag Periwinkles
Eats Diatoms, Algae and Detritus on the rocks and glass in your tank. Extremely hardy under normal water conditions. This smaller snail only grows to about 2/5-3/5 of an inch.
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