Do you consider your CUC expendable?

[hiimsean]

When moving to a new tank, do you try to grab as many snails as you can? I don't see too many thanks to my melanarus but there are some in there. I'm doing my tank swap tomorrow and I'm not sure if I should go digging through the sand to find snails or just go ahead and get a new CUC for the new tank?

 

[ringo®]

Might as well.....you paid for them. Feed the tank and grab whatever comes up.

 

[redstang]

I try to keep anything I put in my tank alive as long as possible. Partly I feel responsible for them and partly I'm cheap and don't want to buy their replacements any sooner than I have to. When I change the floss in the back of my BC I spend 10 minutes enticing as many amphipods as possible to jump down into a cup before I throw it away. Pathetic, I know.

 

[jdavid]

Pathetic? I say admirable!

 

[dabo]

RedStang;917048 wrote: I try to keep anything I put in my tank alive as long as possible. Partly I feel responsible for them and partly I'm cheap and don't want to buy their replacements any sooner than I have to. When I change the floss in the back of my BC I spend 10 minutes enticing as many amphipods as possible to jump down into a cup before I throw it away. Pathetic, I know.

+1, i do it also

 

[dball711]

dabo;917056 wrote: +1, i do it also

Me too!

 

[stacy22]

Why would someone intentionally kill them or let them die?

 

[davidinga]

I consider them food for my wrasse's ...

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[willie1983]

RedStang;917048 wrote: I try to keep anything I put in my tank alive as long as possible. Partly I feel responsible for them and partly I'm cheap and don't want to buy their replacements any sooner than I have to. When I change the floss in the back of my BC I spend 10 minutes enticing as many amphipods as possible to jump down into a cup before I throw it away. Pathetic, I know.

Lol I thought I was the only one that does that

 

[hiimsean]

DavidinGA;917072 wrote: I consider them food for my wrasse's ...

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That's what everything has turned into for me, except for my single hermit lol

 

[tbub1221]

RedStang;917048 wrote: I try to keep anything I put in my tank alive as long as possible. Partly I feel responsible for them and partly I'm cheap and don't want to buy their replacements any sooner than I have to. When I change the floss in the back of my BC I spend 10 minutes enticing as many amphipods as possible to jump down into a cup before I throw it away. Pathetic, I know.

+ 10
I fish them bad boys out when changing floss and reactor media.
That's how I harvest them and how I determine its getting close to time to get more . IMO there is absolutely nothing pathetic about that at all.