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edinphilly · 03/07/2015, 04:45 PM

CUC can do many different things depending on what you use and your specific tank. My pet peeve is LFS (and online CUC specialty stores) that sell you too much. Let's say they design the right CUC for you tank with all the right critters (and forget that they often don't even get this right). If they sell you too many, which seems to be the case, it becomes a perpetual CUC "cycle" where some starve, die, cause excess nutrients which lead to some kind of algae bloom. So back to the store for more CUC to restart this CUC "cycle"!!!!

This frustrated me a lot when I was new. Less is more with CUC. And slowly build up. What you need at one year will be more than at month 2. Which is why CUC "packages" by tank size are stupid. They must be profitable though the way they get hard sold.

Rant over.

03/07/2015, 04:45 PM	#13
edinphilly Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2014 Posts: 333	CUC can do many different things depending on what you use and your specific tank. My pet peeve is LFS (and online CUC specialty stores) that sell you too much. Let's say they design the right CUC for you tank with all the right critters (and forget that they often don't even get this right). If they sell you too many, which seems to be the case, it becomes a perpetual CUC "cycle" where some starve, die, cause excess nutrients which lead to some kind of algae bloom. So back to the store for more CUC to restart this CUC "cycle"!!!! This frustrated me a lot when I was new. Less is more with CUC. And slowly build up. What you need at one year will be more than at month 2. Which is why CUC "packages" by tank size are stupid. They must be profitable though the way they get hard sold. Rant over.