As always, there is also room for the argument, if the system is set up correctly, there shouldn't be a need for a cleanup crew (a remedy for a symptom), since there are no problems/illnesses in the first place. I don't know if in practice this is at all possible, it would need to be looked at by some of the scientific types on RC and RDO, but in theory, with proper preparation, problem algaes should be kept in check automatically. I suppose it would be hard to predict and prepare for all the varieties of nasties that inhabit live rock though. And not that I didn't have significant problems with cyanobacteria. Maybe I should leave cleanup crews out of my next system altogether and see what happens.
Rich with those animals I think you've got the stocking order pretty much sorted out, you could probably put the shrimps in at the same time or before the clownfish.
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Man, n. ...His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth, and Canada. - A. Bierce, Devil's Dictionary, 1906
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