Cuc ?
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JammyBirch
Aquaria Engineering
May have to feed them, which in my opinion is just fine the price of having horse power to work messy crap away when it shows up...
The CUC is like firemen...you really can't complain about them doing nothing most days...when they are needed the save the day.
The CUC is like firemen...you really can't complain about them doing nothing most days...when they are needed the save the day.
JammyBirch
Aquaria Engineering
Ah...algae flake food
Reefer4evaa
New member
My cuc usually eats the fish food that doesn't get eaten by the fish
cloak
New member
Being that snails & crabs are fairly easy to get, you might just want to let your tank balance out the population for you. If they happen to die off due to starvation, so be it. Feeding a CUC just doesn't make any since to me. Let's just hope that EVERYTHING you are feeding your CUC is being consumed, otherwise you would have to get a CUC for your CUC. 
SFish
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Don't have fish yet
E46Twist
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What do you currently have? not all CUC members eat algae and many are omnivores. I only keep two mexican turbos as algae eaters, the rest are all detrivores or carnivores. Also just because you don't have a huge ball of GHA waving around doesn't mean there are not micro tufts of algae on you rocks and glass.
SFish
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Being that snails & crabs are fairly easy to get, you might just want to let your tank balance out the population for you. If they happen to die off due to starvation, so be it. Feeding a CUC just doesn't make any since to me. Let's just hope that EVERYTHING you are feeding your CUC is being consumed, otherwise you would have to get a CUC for your CUC.
I had a really bad algae out break due to the lights getting old I think. Guess I went a little over board. I got a CUC and the reactor. I put the CUC in and held off on the reactor to see what they could do. They beat the algae back quite a bit but not to the point where there is none. I think the reactor would wipe it all out. Which I kind a want to do before I put sand in. I went bare bottom because the algae was so bad at the time. I don't want to kill them off though. My sump isn't together yet. I'm wondering with the skimmer and macro algae growing in the sump and a deep sand bed if I'll even need the reactor.
