Where do you buy your cuc?

[ChuzUThisDay]

Where do you buy your clean up crew, locally or online?

It gets pricey pretty quickly trying to buy a cuc for a 125 a handful at a time at the lfs. I've not really found much competition online for reefcleaners, but wondered where you are buying yours.

 

[Brew12]

Where do you buy your clean up crew, locally or online?

It gets pricey pretty quickly trying to buy a cuc for a 125 a handful at a time at the lfs. I've not really found much competition online for reefcleaners, but wondered where you are buying yours.

I've ordered 2 CuC's from reefcleaners and have been very satisfied both times.

Blue Zoo Aquatics seems to have reasonable prices for CuC's also.

 

[ChuzUThisDay]

Any others?

 

[mta_morrow]

@reefcleaners. Excellent customer service and great pricing. Actually have 3 chitons, an urchin, and some more snails coming from them next week

 

[Murica]

I pretty much get everything from liveaquaria. They have yet to let me down and most importantly, I've never had issues with parasites or disease ordering from them. Weird petco owns them cause I'd never buy a fish from a petco store.

 

[Brew12]

I pretty much get everything from liveaquaria. They have yet to let me down and most importantly, I've never had issues with parasites or disease ordering from them. Weird petco owns them cause I'd never buy a fish from a petco store.

Not to hijack the thread but when you buy a fish from Live Aquaria, they never actually handle to fish. They have an employee (or employees) at the wholesaler that work to ship the fish directly. The only fish that actually come out of their systems are the ones from Divers Den.

 

[Paul B]

I buy my Cuc's in a Supermarket.

 

[Zack K]

I buy my Cuc's in a Supermarket.

Beautiful sea cucumber [emoji7] how Big is that guy? On a side not @reefcleaners is your best option

 

[Murica]

Not to hijack the thread but when you buy a fish from Live Aquaria, they never actually handle to fish. They have an employee (or employees) at the wholesaler that work to ship the fish directly. The only fish that actually come out of their systems are the ones from Divers Den.

Ok let me rephrase... I like liveaquaria AND the wholesalers they go through. [emoji106]

 

[ChuzUThisDay]

There seems to be a lot of votes for reefcleaners and live aquaria. Thanks everyone.

I'm going to throw another out there and see if anyone has dealt with reeftopia.

 

[ChuzUThisDay]

I'm going to throw another out there and see if anyone has dealt with reeftopia.

Anything for reeftopia?

 

[Tim Olson]

Have you decided where your going to get your CUC?

I'm about ready to order some Cerith and Star snails and I'm leaning toward Reef Cleaners. I've purchased snails from them before and have had good luck.

The only problem I had was a predatory Nassarius snail (or Whelk?), which quickly ate most of them, before I could figure out what this hitchhiker was doing ... arghhh!

 

[cloak]

Some of those CUC packages they sell online can be overkill IMO, so I like to pick and choose from the various LFS in my area. I'll add a few snails here, maybe a hermit crab there etc.

FWIW for a 125 gallon tank I would probably start off with maybe 12-15 Trochus snails and maybe 5 Scarlet Hermit crabs. Use something like a Mag-float to clean the glass and either stir up or vacuum the sand bed on a regular basis too. If everything goes right you won't have to add any more janitors to the tank later on.

 

[ChuzUThisDay]

Thanks again for the input