What does your CUC contain?... Just curious

[H-C6179]

Evening, all

Just curious as to what everyone has in the CUC. At present I have

• Pep shrimp
• Conch snail
• Blackfoot Trochus (latest addition)

Wife really wants a star fish however I fear tanks too small!

 

[bushdoc]

Aquarist is the most important part of CUC. Sea star not so much.

 

[H-C6179]

Aquarist is the most important part of CUC. Sea star not so much.

Aha of course!

 

[Sharkbait19]

How big is your tank?
If not a classic star, brittle or serpent stars are pretty low maintenance and do well in small tanks.

My CUC for my 40B is:
8-12 Hermits
3 Trochus snails
4 Nerites
5-20 nassarius
1 tiger conch
Dozens of Ceriths and zig-zag periwinkles
2 emeralds
1 tiger pistol shrimp
And can’t forget about the amphipods, brittle star, mysis, copepods, feather dusters, and all the other hitchhikers.

 

[H-C6179]

How big is your tank?
If not a classic star, brittle or serpent stars are pretty low maintenance and do well in small tanks.

My CUC for my 40B is:
8-12 Hermits
3 Trochus snails
4 Nerites
5-20 nassarius
1 tiger conch
Dozens of Ceriths and zig-zag periwinkles
2 emeralds
1 tiger pistol shrimp
And can’t forget about the amphipods, brittle star, mysis, copepods, feather dusters, and all the other hitchhikers.

I've read about the Brittle and Serpants. Could be a winner, Im on a 50L Fluval. Have two clowns in addition to the above so I know I dont have much wiggle room.

Impressive list . I saw a tiger the other day! Learnt how they pair with a fish for protection. Very nice

 

[mrpontiac80]

My 180 gallon consists of these guys. But to be fair, my reef cleaners order containing 90% of them arrives today.
90 Dwarf Ceriths
29 Nassarius vibex
43 Florida Ceriths
4 Tiger Conchs
40 Astraeas
3 big turbos
2 serpent stars
5-8 hermits
1 urchin

 

[H-C6179]

My 180 gallon consists of these guys. But to be fair, my reef cleaners order containing 90% of them arrives today.
90 Dwarf Ceriths
29 Nassarius vibex
43 Florida Ceriths
4 Tiger Conchs
40 Astraeas
3 big turbos
2 serpent stars
5-8 hermits
1 urchin

Very nice! How bigs the Urchin?

 

[Dburr1014]

2 shrimp
2 serpant stars
2 urchins
Foot conch
Bunch of different snails
Bunch of different hermits

 

[homer1475]

3 fighting conch, many nessarious(SP?) snails, few mexican turbos, 3 tuxedo urchins, and a couple trochus snails.

80G cube.

 

[mrpontiac80]

Very nice! How bigs the Urchin?

It’s 2 years old and a little bigger than the size of a golf ball. It’s in the upper left on the gyre

 

[homer1475]

It’s 2 years old and a little bigger than the size of a golf ball. It’s in the upper left on the gyre

Looks to be a short spine pincushion.

 

[H-C6179]

It’s 2 years old and a little bigger than the size of a golf ball. It’s in the upper left on the gyre

Lovely set up

 

[paintman]

CUC=

2 hands
tooth brush
turkey bast
power filter
And I still have hundreds if not thousands of $ still in my pocket

 

[C4ctus99]

I had some sort of sea star in my 20gallon long, had plenty of amphipods and he just hid under a rock all day. Now he’s in a 75 with way more space that he knows what to do with!

cuc:
Emerald crab
Thin stripe hermit (Huuuuge)
Sea star/brittle star(not certain which one it is)
Trochus snail
Mini snail (hitchhiker)
Amphipods

 

[Floyd-]

I just use a hand full of snails in my 25g tank. I used to use hermits but they are little crazy things and eat the snails and corals.

 

[Maritimer]

Just received a ReefCleaners order today; three or four different ceriths, including a couple of gnarly "knobby creepers", lightning dove snails, marginella snails, dwarf and regular trochus, a couple of varieties of nassarius, three different conchs (the fighting conchs will probably prove too large for my 220 - lotsa rocks), more hermits than I can shake a stick at, bumblebee snails, mithrax and pitho crabs. (Pithos are _much_ bigger than their pic on the site makes them look - but their claws are pretty tiny.) Brittle stars and bristle worms.

Also, tangs.

Front glass is on me, though.

~B.

 

[cpschult]

3 fighting conch, many nessarious(SP?) snails, few mexican turbos, 3 tuxedo urchins, and a couple trochus snails.

80G cube.

Picture of your tank?

How do you have three fighting conchs in a 80 gallon?

 

[fish farmer]

Mexican turbos, trochus, astrea, Florida cerith, nassarius, bumblebees, few hermits.

 

[doubleshot00]

In my 90

Foxface
Scopas Tang
One massive turbo snail
Few astrea snails
Handful of conchs I think 4
6-8 nassarius snails.

In my IM15
3 conchs (they seem to come back to life)
1- astrea
1- trochus
1- Urchin
1-hermit

 

[Homey D. Clownfish]

My 180 gallon consists of these guys. But to be fair, my reef cleaners order containing 90% of them arrives today.
90 Dwarf Ceriths
29 Nassarius vibex
43 Florida Ceriths
4 Tiger Conchs
40 Astraeas
3 big turbos
2 serpent stars
5-8 hermits
1 urchin

Reef cleaners are great. I get one of the cuc packages and it covers all the bases.