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View Poll Results: What is max time yo have kept Skunk Cleaner alive in Tank? | |
Less then 1 year
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1 - 2 years
|    | 6 | 46.15% | |
2 - 4 years
|    | 1 | 7.69% | |
Over 5 years
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04-25-2008, 09:11 AM
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| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 58
Posts: 4,444
  
|  Shrimp lifespan?
Really don't recall how long I have kept any single shrimp...but seems I have had to replace my skunk cleaner every couple of years or so.
Not ever sure of coming to natural end or not. (eaten, under/over fed, suicide, etc...)
What is longest time you have kept one in your tank?  _________ AG "125," AquaC EV 180, 30 gal sump, "SCWD", 80 lbs LR, CoralSeaLife "Moonlite" Hood, PFO 250W HQI Mini-Pendant (SPS HQI 14000k bulb)
12 Gallon NanoCube - 24w stock PC 50/50 light "...nothing good ever happens fast in a reef tank, only bad things happen fast..."
- MIKE PALLETTA - (Davis Family Reef Aquarium - Home Page/Reef Log) (Best Photos of 2008!) | 
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04-25-2008, 09:12 AM
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| | Caribbean Reef Squid
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: ohio Age: 32
Posts: 2,880
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I had my skunk cleaner for close to 4 months in my nano 12.. I had to trade him in for a smaller version.. LOL!!!!!
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5.5 gal, 72w of pcs, 2 leds, rio nano skimmer, 40 gal hob filter, 50w visi-therm heater, 5pds lr, 1 inch live sand bed, 1 true perc ,1 porcelain crab, tuxedo urchin, 1 pep shrimp, 1 lge turbo , 3 cerith, 1 astrea, 1 nassaruis snails, rd/blue blastos, neon grn bali slimer acro, ROB, 1 grn 1 purple tipped frogspawns, feather duster, purple, and orange rics, monti's, duncans, grn polyps, cndycane corals, shrooms, zoa's, blue clove polyps, purple death pallys and grn star plyps. | |
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04-25-2008, 09:14 AM
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| | Purple Spiny Lobster
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Parma Ohio Age: 27
Posts: 474
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I think a year or two is about what mine last to. lfs said thats normal | |
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04-25-2008, 11:55 AM
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| | Fire Goby
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Sun River,Oregon (Bend) Age: 34
Posts: 1,330
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I couldn't get a decent pic of mine. Apparently there's something yummy under my nails. I've had mine almost a year along with Coral Banded Shrimp (can't ever get a pic of him.)  | 
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04-27-2008, 09:20 PM
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| | Ritteri Anemone
Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Garden Creek,VA
Posts: 634
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I had banded shrimp before and like Omar said, they only last 2 years tops
I really never knew where mine went. no left overs or nothing, vanish
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55g. 2" fiji pink LS, 45# fiji premium lr, OR 3500 900gph, 10g. wetdry, 82gph nano skimmer, #2 koralia, T-5ho 216w, pagoda, hammer, zoa.s, dartfish, neon, royal gramma, kenya & few shrooms >))))*>
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04-28-2008, 02:17 AM
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| | Montipora Digitata
Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: valencia,pa. Age: 34
Posts: 1,093
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aw i hope they can live longer.mines in its 2nd tank now,its about 2 yrs old and seems healthy.i hope it lives forever,its a great addition to the tank and has cleaned the fish and corals of parasites and unwanted things.
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55 gallon reef with 4x54 watt t5,29 gallon sump,red monti cap,1blue echinophyllia,trumpet,red lobo,2 toadstools 1purple and 1neon,gsp,xenia and yellow xenia,red ,many mushrooms,2 giant frilly shrooms,cabbage coral,yellow polyps,many zoos,1 orange and one neon green nepthia,duncans,cladiella | |
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04-28-2008, 08:34 AM
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| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 58
Posts: 4,444
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Skunk Cleaner #4 in 6+ year old tank. | |
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04-28-2008, 11:43 AM
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| | Skunk Shrimp
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: monterey...cali Age: 25
Posts: 274
Karma: 118
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mine lasted alittle over a month, but i think he as at the store for a long time he a big boy
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29 gal/ 10gal refugium with more things then I have space to list.
with a 7gal sea horse tank slowly in the works | |
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04-29-2008, 01:39 PM
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| | Fire Worm
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: San Bruno, CA Age: 33
Posts: 173
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One of my two peppermints died after releasing eggs, but the other is going strong- and I have little shrimp hiding from the damsel up in the polyps. (It's the Circle of Life!)
1) Less than 3 months
2) We'll see! _________ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Began 2/3/2008: 29 AGA
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04-29-2008, 04:06 PM
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| | Flamingo Tongue
Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: North Dakota Age: 31
Posts: 107
Karma: 19
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I have a coral banded shrimp that has been in the tank for over 2 years and skunk cleaner for about a year, year and a half. They're big and healthy -- about the only thing I've never had problems with 
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90 gallon with 26 gallon sump/refugium, 2 x 250 MH lighting, 100lbs live rock, 1 - yellow tang,1 damsel, 1 - cleaner shrimp, 1 - coral banded shrimp, 3 - emerald crabs, 2 - porcelin crabs, 6 - peppermint shrimp, 1 - green ricordia, 1 - toadstool, 1 - brittle starfish, 1 - sand sifting star, 100's baby feather dusters,Ass mushrooms, frogspawn, xenia, 1 clam,
6 - Leather coral, Green star polyps,Lime green/orange button polyps,1 huge carpet anenome,various snails/hermit crabs | |
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