Clean Up Crews are what I enjoy most about planning out a balanced ecosystem that operates on auto-pilot: Dynamic Equilibrium.
What is your favorite clean-up crew member , or what is something that one of them has done that makes you like them a lot. I like Sally Lightfoot Crab. He being “fleet of foot“ has eluded close up pictures.
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The Sally Lightfoot Crab has long been used as a "tank janitor" to help clean the substrate and rocks in saltwater aquariums. As an omnivore, the Sally Lightfoot is the ultimate scavenger, consuming detritus, uneaten food, algae and everything else in its path, with the noted exception of living corals. When this crab gets larger and more aggressive, it will also attack and eat small fish and invertebrates.
The Sally Lightfoot Crab has a brown body, with orange to yellow rings on the legs.
Actually classified as a shore crab, however, it is less likely than the other genera to go on land. The "true" Sally Lightfoot species is the Grapsus grapsus found in the Galapagos Islands, which most likely won't be the one you find in fish stores. In the wild, this flat crab greatly prefers to live in areas with a lot of rocks with crevices that it can hide in. In an aquarium, it also does best where there is a lot of live rock with crevices and gaps that it can crawl into when it wants to hide, which is most of the time.
The Sally Lightfoot Crab is considered to be a Reef Tank Safe Janitor as it does not bother corals but does a great job of eating Green Hair Algae, detritus and uneaten food.
PS: After I read this link, I now know where mollies in mixed garden Caribbean lagoon went.
What is your favorite clean-up crew member , or what is something that one of them has done that makes you like them a lot. I like Sally Lightfoot Crab. He being “fleet of foot“ has eluded close up pictures.
Sally Lightfoot: Species Profile
The Sally Lightfood Crab is the ultimate scavenger and is known as a Reef Tank Safe Janitor; it can clean up everything in its path.
The Sally Lightfoot Crab has a brown body, with orange to yellow rings on the legs.
Actually classified as a shore crab, however, it is less likely than the other genera to go on land. The "true" Sally Lightfoot species is the Grapsus grapsus found in the Galapagos Islands, which most likely won't be the one you find in fish stores. In the wild, this flat crab greatly prefers to live in areas with a lot of rocks with crevices that it can hide in. In an aquarium, it also does best where there is a lot of live rock with crevices and gaps that it can crawl into when it wants to hide, which is most of the time.
The Sally Lightfoot Crab is considered to be a Reef Tank Safe Janitor as it does not bother corals but does a great job of eating Green Hair Algae, detritus and uneaten food.
PS: After I read this link, I now know where mollies in mixed garden Caribbean lagoon went.
. Did you eat them.
