Recycling Question

[gmcbroom]

Almost 1 month ago my brother and I started up his old 55g tank. It's going to have 2 clowns,2 anemones, LR, LS, and clean up crew. Here's the situation. We added the 15lbs. of Live sand 2 decent sized Live rock ( thinking about more live rock and Live sand). waited 3 weeks until the cycling was finished. Took a sample to Austin Aquariums and had good old Mike test them for us. He said it was ok to add a clean up crew to help control Diatoms. The crew is doing fine. Diatoms are well under control. Here's the question we'd like to go ahead and add more live sand but I don't know if that will recycle the tank? also ( and this might sound stupid but) can we just pick up the clean up crew ( 5 small hermit crabs) dump the LS and then put them back down in the tank? We do plan on adding more to the cleanup crew some snails,etc. but for right now 5 is what we can afford. The clowns and anemones won't be added for a couple of months. Right now I'm just concerned about the clean up crew. Could they survive in the tank if it starts to cycle again.
Sincerely
Greg
Thanks

[brewercm]

I laid new sand down in my aquarium that had been up for several years without taking anything out (fish, crabs, snails etc). I had no problem with anything but you may want to either lay a small amount at a time or do have the tank then a week later do the other. I just added the 30 extra pounds all at once with no problem. If all you have are the crabs I doubt it would cause any problems. Somebody else can chime in if I'm wrong. Also I had severe problems trying to keep an anenome after my tank was first up and running. I didn't have any luck until after it was up for about a year. From what I understan they also require fairly intense light to really survive and last long.

[gmcbroom]

Thanx for the quik reply. We will definetly look into trying the half method then. As for the lights; We have the Aqualite Coralife 260 watt delux lighting. 2-65 watt bulbs and 2-65 watt actinic bulbs. It should be enough for the anemones.
Thanx again.
Greg

[brewercm]

I was using the same light fixture along with another 2x55 on my 75 gallon before recently changing over to MH.
Good luck with the new tank.

[Tim Marvin]

More than likely the tank won't cycle again. If it does it would be very short lived and the crew will be fine.

[gmcbroom]

Thanks again to all who responded. Oh and just curious. Brewer how did your tank fair with those lights? If you have a anemone? Did it like the light or was it to weak for it to thrive on? I've heard good things about it but would like your to cents. Sorry to go alittle of topic though.
Greg