I would say that the single best cleaner crew in my tank in my dragon goby. He keeps the sand in my 180g nice and white, all by himself.
My tangs keep macro algae growth invisible.
If you have a hair algae problem, sea hares are priceless, but they don't live long.
My snails are fun to watch, but for cleaning they dont do much for me not even glass, because they don't do the whole glass, only patches. They probably help keep the rocks algae and detrius free though. I have a variety of snails, including cerith, astrea, and turbos, I would not buy turbos again though. I think there are two kinds of astrea, one that is good, one that sux, can't remember though.
Hermits are again fun to watch, but they do take down snails ocassionaly, and I don't SEE them eating detrius much, but they could be. If I had to pick one hermit to have, I would go with scarlets. They have never stolen a snails shell or killed for one, they don't go ape nuts over flipped snails like my zebras, brown legs, and blue legs do. The next least-agressive are my blue legs, I would not buy zebras or browns again. I had a couple hitchicker hermits that had black legs with orange bands, they were huge, and awesome, didn't bother anything.
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