What does your CUC contain?... Just curious

[mrpontiac80]

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

Mine was supposed to be delivered today but tracking shows the package bouncing around my town and the next one over so it looks like tomorrow…. Hopefully everything is still alive. They shipped Monday.

 

[BillFish Coral Lover]

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.

This is an army, not a clean up crew for a 40-gallon Breeder!

 

[JoJosReef]

Urchin
N. vibex
Conches
FL ceriths
Cortez ceriths
E. African ceriths
Dwarf ceriths (oh, so many)
Money cowries
Astraeas
Dwarf trochus
Trochus
Mexican turbos
Periwinkles
Pitho crab
Emerald crabs
Limpets
Marginella snails
Spaghetti worms
Peanut worms or equivalent (some unID'd)
Fan worms
Micro brittle stars
Brittle stars
Nerites
Virgin nerites (bunch cuz pretty)
Ox tongue nerites
Randall's pistol (sand stirring)
Lettuce slug

 

[steveschuerger]

60 gallon shallow reef style

30 Astrea snails
5 or 6 Nassarius
1 small Turbo used to be 2, eaten by my stupid hermits
several Cerith, not quite sure how many
3 or 4 varied hermits
Pencil urchin, came as hitch hiker
Tiger conch
various other critters that came as hitch hikers
and of course 2 hands several different brushes and tongs for plucking

 

[homer1475]

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

Build thread

 

[courtneykeeps]

I'm jealous of how cheap clean up crew is in USA lol

 

[cpschult]

Build thread

What cracks me up is I read the end of your build thread about the chaoti and NYaquatics previously lol. That was a serious bummer.

I always thought fighting conchs needed a lot of sand bed to clean. Now you have my considering getting one for my tank!

 

[Waters]

My 105g has two urchins, a couple of huge turbos, a handful of astreas, and an enormous chiton.....along with my Foxface and Coral beauty

 

[Timfish]

I always have urchins of some kind, hermits (favorite isn thin strip hermits from caribbean coast), brittle stars, Sally Lightfoot crabs and lots of Aquilonastra starfish.

 

[WestMI-Reefer]

2 tanks + sump = 33 gallons
7 hermits
4 cerith snails
3 tongan nassarrius snails
4 astrea snails
Might make one of the tanks a 6line wrasse home. Considered a skunk shrimp at one point but dont want angry corals.

 

[homer1475]

What cracks me up is I read the end of your build thread about the chaoti and NYaquatics previously lol. That was a serious bummer.

I always thought fighting conchs needed a lot of sand bed to clean. Now you have my considering getting one for my tank!

I very seldom see them, they stay burried most of the day, and come out at night. I've had all 3 going on 4 or so years now and they are plenty healthy. You also have to realize my tank is very well established, and I do not touch my sandbed. So there is plenty for them to eat.

 

[Dbichler]

7 large turbo snails. Pencil urchin and 3 fighting conchs in my 210. Anything else would be eaten by my bird wrasse and huma huma.

 

[Reef2317]

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!

1x Peppermint shrimp
Turbo snails lots
6x Nassarius snails
1x Strombus snail
1x sand sifting starfish
3x trochus snails

32.5 gal fluval flex marine

 

[Homey D. Clownfish]

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

Haha…nothing beats your own two hands and a piece of filter floss to keep that glass looking clear.

 

[sawdonkey]

In order of effectiveness:

1. Glass scraper
2. Magnet scraper
3. Gravel vacuum
4. Filter socks
5. Tangs (three)
6. Five Mexican turbo snails
7. 75 blue leg crabs
8. 25 asterena snails
9. Two fighting conchs
10. 200 mini ceriths

 

[sawdonkey]

And can’t forget about the amphipods, brittle star, mysis, copepods, feather dusters, and all the other hitchhikers.

Do you really have mysis? Or are they mysid?

 

[sawdonkey]

7 large turbo snails. Pencil urchin and 3 fighting conchs in my 210. Anything else would be eaten by my bird wrasse and huma huma.

I’ve found that my huma huma (which I’ve had since 2003) does not eat cleanup crew. Sure, he will go after a snail or grab now and then out of curiosity, but it’s not like he’s looking for dinner.

 

[littlefoxx]

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!

I have a sea hare, seprent starfish, halloween hermits, 2 turbo snails, blue and red leg hermits, misc small snails, emerald crab, and a skunk cleaner, fire and coral banded shrimp! Also have two other shrimp that eat aptasia, forget the name. Cousin of pepperments

 

[Dbichler]

I’ve found that my huma huma (which I’ve had since 2003) does not eat cleanup crew. Sure, he will go after a snail or grab now and then out of curiosity, but it’s not like he’s looking for dinner.

Lucky mine straight or devours small snails.

 

[Sharkbait19]

Do you really have mysis? Or are they mysid?

Mysid I’d assume