[CaptainYooh]

Good day, everyone. Our 10g nano-reef tank has now been cycled with 12 lbs of live rock for 6 months and has a few corals added recently (torch, fragspawn, hammer, zoas, mushrooms, gsp, xenia), 2 clownfish and CUC (added one month ago). Photos are forthcoming.

Three quick and right to the point question to the experienced reef-keepers:

1) Who can best play freshwater pleco's green algae eating role in a nano-reef 10 g tank? I am a little worried about a thin green algae film on our tank's water surface as it's not going away. I know, it does speak positively to the health of the tank but it can also go wild if not managed properly and timely.

2) What would you recommend as the most appropriate sand-sifting/sand-cleaning fish for our tank? LFS guy told us that sand-sifting Goby would sift through our 2" white sand bed fairly quickly and then starve. Do you agree? If yes, then what should we consider? Another type of Goby, say Yellow Watchman? Or something totally different?

3) Our CUC consists of 3 medium-size turbo-snails, 3 blue-legged hermit crabs and a peppermint shrimp. We did have 3 nerites but they were all killed quickly by the hermits. Which areas of our tank health are not being addressed at present do you think? Which CUC creatures are we missing in your opinion? What would you recommend we should add?

Thank you kindly.