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Snail/Crabs in Sump

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Topic: Snail/Crabs in Sump

Posted By: rfoote
Subject: Snail/Crabs in Sump
Date Posted: September 29 2012 at 9:23am

Does anyone keep a few snails/crabs in your sump to keep things clean, or are you too concerned they'll get into pumps?

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Posted By: kody72
Date Posted: September 29 2012 at 10:37am

I use the big turbo snails

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Posted By: Dion Richins
Date Posted: September 29 2012 at 1:05pm

I use them both in the fuge. Haven't had much of a problem with the pumps.

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Posted By: papa-squid
Date Posted: September 29 2012 at 1:33pm

Dion Richins wrote:

I use them both in the fuge. Haven't had much of a problem with the pumps.

Me too, and same here, my return has a cap so I don't worry. Keeps my live food able to go to my display too.

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Posted By: tileman
Date Posted: September 29 2012 at 1:40pm

About every three months I will vacuum out the sump to get the detritus cleaned out. Every six months on the refugium.

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Posted By: Lewy
Date Posted: September 29 2012 at 2:56pm

I have both crabs and snails in my sump/fuge but didn't put them there intentionally.

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