Cuc

Just ordered my clean up crew from reef cleaners.
80 dwarf cerith
45 florida cerith
25 nassarius vibex
25 nerite snails
35 assorted hermits
Also ordered some pods to get my pod population up. Anything special I need to do for the pods?

 

Looks pretty good. Are the pods going in your refugium with some cheato?

 

Just now planning out my fuge. Thinking about using a 10 gallon tank in the cabinet with the sump. With this first order of pods I was going to seed the display tank with them then when I get my fuge going was going to order more to seed it along with cheato. Will be using a 65 watt light over the fuge and paint the back and both sides black. Just havent figured out how to get water from the sump or dt to the fuge and then back.

 

How big is your tank and what fish do you have? I'm trying to decide how many more I want to order too

 

150 gallon, finished cycling just a few days ago. Only have 3 damsels right now. Going to wait a couple 3 months before I add any more then try to catch the damsels and get rid of them. May keep the blue yellow tailed one. I really want a pair of black clowns. As far as the cuc, I filled out the form they have on their site and thats what he recommended for my tank. Just now starting to get a diatom bloom so hopefully it will be in full swing when the cuc gets here.

 

Go with a 50 gallon sump.

 

With that big of a clean up crew and that few of fish I'm guessing you'll have to put a lot of food in the tank just to feed the cuc.
I have a 150 also. I'll have to look into getting a lot bigger cuc

 

nope. that's not that big of a CuC for a 150 really.

 

Just got my clean up crew today at noon. Everything looks great, the florida ceriths are still coming around, havent moved much yet. Also found a feather duster hanging on a shell of a hermit, pretty cool.

 

Personally, I disagree wholeheartedly with using tank size to determine the CuC. Snails, hermits, etc are also living organisms that have their own personal dietary requirements irrelevant to the amount of water or space. IMHO, the OP needs a ton of algae growth in his system or most of those snails will end up as hermit food.

JM2C