Clean Up Crew Help
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mcarroll
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Start small...1-2 snails.
Wait a few weeks and add 1-2 more critters...or a coral.
Wait at least a few weeks.
Repeat until your livestock and CUC are complete.
Waiting a few EXTRA weeks between fish additions would be a great idea.
Wait a few weeks and add 1-2 more critters...or a coral.
Wait at least a few weeks.
Repeat until your livestock and CUC are complete.
Waiting a few EXTRA weeks between fish additions would be a great idea.
Big G
captain dunsel
Here you go. Reef Cleaners.com has excellent quality CUC. Their systems are fishless, so the chance of getting any fish diseases is extremely small. Just choose the size of your tank. Cheers! https://www.reefcleaners.org/cleaner-packages-with-free-shipping
Big G
captain dunsel
Call'em. Cheers!
mcarroll
10K Club member
I'm not sure how much worry is really justified on this front.
What are the odds of a given snail carrying a velvet spore? Small. A snail from a fishless system? Smaller.
What are the odds of that spore actually arriving on a fish vs down a coral mouth or out the protein skimmer? Small.
What are the odds of it actually infecting a fish it touches vs just sticking to its mucus or bouncing off? Small.
What is small (or smaller) x small x small?
I've never QT'd inverts – unless you have an algae factory on stand by, QT'ing snails would be a cruel starvation test. There's usually not enough algae in the display, let alone in a QT.
OTOH I've always shopped locally so I could always see and hand-pick what I was getting and know what kind of system they were coming out of. YMMV.
I would still be a little afraid of putting in so much CUC all at once....especially into a brand new tank. I would select nothing larger than their "2.5, 3g JBJ" package from the snail-only list. Even that's a fair amount all at once for a new tank. If I had the option, I'd prefer to add 1-2 at a time and wait a few/several weeks before adding the next thing.
