Reef Cleaner Package

bvanfish · Sep 22, 2023

I probably have about 10-15 clean up crew in my 25 right now. They seem to be doing ok but I’m dealing with some algae / cyano. Trying to figure out the cause of that but think I’m a bit lean on CUC regardless

rhitee93 · Sep 22, 2023

bvanfish said:
How did they come in?

I had one small trochus snail that was DOA, but everything else just took off immediately. I'm just starting this tank so my total order was small. 10 hermits and 16 snails in total. I

I'm sure I could have asked for a refund on the dead one but for $3 I'm not going to have them go to the trouble of shipping me another one. I'm also worried I put too many CUC members in the tank too soon, so I'm not sweating the loss.

Derrick0580 · Sep 22, 2023

exnisstech said:
Just throwing this out there because I've bought a few packages from them. I will no longer buy the dwarf ceriths. They are really small (dwarf right?) and I'm constantly having them get in my powerheads.
I've had good luck with snails arriving alive.

This 100%, they go through my return pump in my evo and get caught in the return duckbill nozzles. They jammed up my neros and gyres contantly, imo they are more of a pain than they are worth!

bvanfish · Sep 22, 2023

Think I could do some crabs and stuff with priority? Or does it it need overnight

rhitee93 · Sep 22, 2023

bvanfish said:
Think I could do some crabs and stuff with priority? Or does it it need overnight

I would think priority would probably be fine. Should get to you faster than it got to my small town.

Are you in the city proper or the outskirts? I ask because one of my kids lives in Chicago, and we've noticed that her mail tends to get lost for a few days before actually getting to her building.

bvanfish · Sep 22, 2023

No I’m out in the sticks I just use chicago for greater area has

rhitee93 · Sep 22, 2023

I bet you'd be fine then. Hermits are tough.

bvanfish · Sep 22, 2023

rhitee93 said:
I bet you'd be fine then. Hermits are tough.

I’m gonna get an emerald and some snails and I don’t know what Else to get me to 50 so they ship haha

rhitee93 · Sep 22, 2023

bvanfish said:
I’m gonna get an emerald and some snails and I don’t know what Else to get me to 50 so they ship haha

Ahh, I assumed hermits because of where I'm at with things.

I'm not so sure about bigger crabs. The way I figure it is that they know more about shipping these guys than I do. If they are comfortable with the risks and guaranteeing arrival then I'm OK with it.

I had to order the CUC because my LFS has them in the general population and I didn't want to break my QT protocol. Reef Cleaners doesn't have fish in their systems so no ich.