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SPN
08/28/2008, 08:46 AM
I purchased a Complete 210 FOWLR system a few months back from a fellow RC member. Soon after, I suffered a massive die off within a 48 hour period and lost everything except a Crosshatch Trigger and a yellow Tang.

While waiting for the Fallow period to end, I have been searching, and apparently using the wrong search words, for what is deemed "safe" to keep with the Crosshatch Trigger in terms of a CUC. I have been unable to find any information.

I do not currently have a CUC in the 210 as it originally had some very aggressive fish in it prior to my die off. I do not want to blindly add a CUC and have them become food for the trigger. I have no plans at this time to add any aggressive fish to either tank.

I am specifically looking for links/information/websites, etc., to help me determine what clean up crew critters will be the most effective yet, are least likely to become snacks. The Crosshatch is currently in my 210 with a few small soft corals, a yellow tang, a large maroon clown and an arrow crab which I do not think the trigger has even seen yet. The Crosshatch and yellow tang just returned to my 210 display from my previous 75 Gallon display which was converted to a hospital tank after the outbreak in the DT. My DT's were fallow for 73 days before I added a large maroon clown to the 210.

I was considering purchasing the total reef Care package # 2, from reeftopia or something similar to divide between the 180 & 210. Any suggestions as to where to find information as to what the trigger is most likely not to bother in terms of a CUC?

Thank you in advance.

Steve

sdietz2469
08/28/2008, 09:33 AM
i dont have many links, but from experience triggers love crabs and snails, and it is a tasty little snack to them, now i have never had a cross hatch trigger, but i would think they are just like the rest, and love the tasty little morsels they find running around the tank....
i would get the CUC and just expect to replace it every four months or so... i would stay away from urchins as they will be a little more expensive and probably eaten also... just get an aray of crabs and snails...
again just my opinion,
shane

SPN
11/09/2008, 07:20 AM
Would a tiger tail Cucumber and the total reef Care package # 2, from reeftopia be an acceptable CUC?

reefworm
11/09/2008, 08:03 AM
I'd check with these guys as well:
www.reefcleaners.org