Anyone Sell PreQT Inverts?

GlassMunky · Mar 28, 2020

As the title suggests, is there anyone out there that sells pre QT inverts?
My last batch of CUC, i ordered a huge package from ReefCleaners, an over the 76 Days in my QT tank a good 75% of the snails died. (fouling the water and causing more to be stressed, which just creates a snowball effect, even with doing daily water changes)
You would think that just keeping snails alive for 76 days would be easy, but honestly they just seem to starve off (even though i feed the tank)
So Id really like to find somewhere that either Aquacultures them in a species only tank (NO FISH) or someone who holds them for 76 days before selling?
Does such a place exist?

BigKid4788 · Mar 28, 2020

What are you feeding them?

GlassMunky · Mar 28, 2020

Small amounts of frozen foods like LRS or spirulina brine

Katie M · Mar 28, 2020

Unless they're all nassarius snails, that food won't be adequate for them. Snails need to eat A LOT of algae - I've had really good luck in my personal tanks and at the store I work at using algae sheets like you would for a tang. If that's too much hassle, Hikari makes some algae wafers that my inverts love and you can just drop them in the tank. Good luck!

GlassMunky · Mar 28, 2020

Katie Morris said:
Unless they're all nassarius snails, that food won't be adequate for them. Snails need to eat A LOT of algae - I've had really good luck in my personal tanks and at the store I work at using algae sheets like you would for a tang. If that's too much hassle, Hikari makes some algae wafers that my inverts love and you can just drop them in the tank. Good luck!

Surprisingly all the ones that survived are the algae eaters...
All the nasarius died

homer1475 · Mar 28, 2020

You do know reefcleaners keep all their inverts in systems that have never seen a fish? I don't think you have to worry about ich or any fish disease with inverts from reefcleaners.

Honestly john is a great guy, just call him up and ask him.

GlassMunky · Mar 28, 2020

Katie Morris said:
Unless they're all nassarius snails, that food won't be adequate for them. Snails need to eat A LOT of algae - I've had really good luck in my personal tanks and at the store I work at using algae sheets like you would for a tang. If that's too much hassle, Hikari makes some algae wafers that my inverts love and you can just drop them in the tank. Good luck!

I dealing I’d like to not have to wait another 3 months to add more CUC to my DT...
Hence why looking for pre-QT or aquaculture (non fish system) but can’t seem to find them so figured I’d ask if anyone else knew of a place

GlassMunky · Mar 28, 2020

homer1475 said:
You do know reefcleaners keep all their inverts in systems that have never seen a fish? I don't think you have to worry about ich or any fish disease with inverts from reefcleaners.

Honestly john is a great guy, just call him up and ask him.

The problem is that he gets new batch’s in all the time and you have no way of know how long the invert has been in his system.

also my last order with him wasn’t the best, I had to threaten a CC charge back to him just to have him refund me for items he didn’t send so I probably won’t be ordering from him again.

Katie M · Mar 28, 2020

Yes, sorry I can't offer you a great suggestion on that, but was trying to trouble shoot because it's not fun loosing that many inverts. Best of luck!

homer1475 · Mar 28, 2020

GlassMunky said:
The problem is that he gets new batch’s in all the time and you have no way of know how long the invert has been in his system.

also my last order with him wasn’t the best, I had to threaten a CC charge back to him just to have him refund me for items he didn’t send so I probably won’t be ordering from him again.

Surprising to hear, specially coming from John! While I have not ordered from him in a couple years, I always found him to be more then helpful and has always refunded me on DOA's or things that I ordered that he didn't have and weren't shipped.

Sorry can't be of much more help.

GlassMunky · Mar 28, 2020

homer1475 said:
Surprising to hear, specially coming from John! While I have not ordered from him in a couple years, I always found him to be more then helpful and has always refunded me on DOA's or things that I ordered that he didn't have and weren't shipped.

Sorry can't be of much more help.

Same. I used to get everything from them, and never had a problem until this order.
I hadn’t ordered anything in probably 2 years and was sorely disappointed in the transaction, as before he had always been great.

ross0201 · Mar 28, 2020

GlassMunky said:
As the title suggests, is there anyone out there that sells pre QT inverts?
My last batch of CUC, i ordered a huge package from ReefCleaners, an over the 76 Days in my QT tank a good 75% of the snails died. (fouling the water and causing more to be stressed, which just creates a snowball effect, even with doing daily water changes)
You would think that just keeping snails alive for 76 days would be easy, but honestly they just seem to starve off (even though i feed the tank)
So Id really like to find somewhere that either Aquacultures them in a species only tank (NO FISH) or someone who holds them for 76 days before selling?
Does such a place exist?

I don't know what he currently has in stock but reach out to Quarantined Fish: http://www.quarantinedfish.us/.