Quarantined clean up crew vendors

[ss88]

Any recommendations for a vendor of quarantined pest free inverts. Need a clean up crew and while I have a dedicated 180 gallon for invert quarantine i need serious help controlling nuisance algae faster then 90 days. I need hundreds of snails, crabs, sea urchins. System volume is around 500 gallons.

According to reefcleaners site they have fish less systems. However this is irrelevant if livestock has not been in continuous isolation 90+ days from date of import.

Anyone have a bad experience with reefcleaners inverts hosting pest?

 

[Geebs19]

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[SaracensRugby]

This is my concern as well. I have a 315 gallon DT, and need to add a big CUC. But am concerned after QT'ing everything else to this point, to just dump 300 inverts right into the DT. But I can't QT that many either. Thoughts around this?

 

[BContos]

This is my concern as well. I have a 315 gallon DT, and need to add a big CUC. But am concerned after QT'ing everything else to this point, to just dump 300 inverts right into the DT. But I can't QT that many either. Thoughts around this?

What did you end up doing?

 

[Doctorgori]

no guarantees but “usually” many vendors house inverts separately due to meds, copper and salinity differences…

FWIW I’ve never been able to blame CUC intros for ich outbreaks et….and trust me I’ve looked for scapegoats or anyone else to blame

 

[Kzang]

I used dr reefs. It’s a bit more expensive, but I ordered a lot of fish and stuff and been pretty happy with them

 

[BContos]

I used dr reefs. It’s a bit more expensive, but I ordered a lot of fish and stuff and been pretty happy with them

I've ordered all my fish from him and had great luck! The inverts are just quite a bit more expensive than other places. I will suck it up and go with them though! No since in losing your whole tank over some snails lol

 

[Kzang]

I've ordered all my fish from him and had great luck! The inverts are just quite a bit more expensive than other places. I will suck it up and go with them though! No since in losing your whole tank over some snails lol

The invert chance would probably be really low, though. I ordered reef cleaners about 6x times and never got anything.

 

[Cthulukelele]

I'd argue that almost no inverts in the hobby are properly quarantined and that pretty much every tank has some amount of these "worst case scenario" parasites in their tank, but they only become an issue when a highly stressed fish reaches a critical mass infection that overwhelms other organisms in the tank. This is a controversial take though.

 

[BContos]

The invert chance would probably be really low, though. I ordered reef cleaners about 6x times and never got anything.

I've ordered from reef cleaners for two of my previous tanks and always liked him and never had issues. For my new upgraded tank though I am planning to quarantine corals and fish so my worry would be that even a small chance of something making it into the tank it would because I have horrible luck. My new build I want a tang or two and I am trying to avoid the issues from start to finish

 

[SaracensRugby]

What did you end up doing?

I put them all right in. No issues. All it takes is one brook outbreak and I am scared of putting anything in. I mean, even frags from someone else’s system could have ich tomonts theoretically yes?

 

[ss88]

I decided it wasn’t even remotely worth the risk to bypass quarantine. I have a dedicated 180 gallon tank for my inverts. In process actually of quarantining about another 1000. I will also likely prophylactically treat this group of invert with antibiotics. Well unconfirmed I did get a weird strain of bacteria I believe in my one display tank with SPS. I should mention that my invert are typically from the Caribbean. So SCTLD is a real concern of mine. And this particular bacteria does not effect acros. Only encrusting corals.