Victor Shares His Top 10 Most Useful Reef Tank Critters!

[@jgallone]

After years of reef keeping, I finally got a tuxedo urchin; I will never have another tank without one. They do such an amazing job of eating algae, and they look cool.

[@rubenespinosa1685]

Happy to see you there victor I can really relate to everything you saying great video, and you always get to the point, and not babble away about something . You don’t side track Victor the Man. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[@RoccoDonVergas]

When I close my eyes and listen to Victor it sounds like Tony Montana changed his life for the better and is teaching me about aquariums

[@Elisincontrol]

I wish there was a website that you can input a coral or a fish and it would list the compatible species vs the ones that aren’t. That would make life so much easier ❤💡

[@MumRah]

"It was alive at one point in time. You just didn't have to do it." 😂 savage

[@Cordelish]

This video is perfectly timed. My 120 just came in and now I am putting together my stocking list. I would be wildly loyal to any store that would do the "white glove" treatment.

[@GaryPoole-b9o]

I had Turbo snails release eggs. They were up top of the live rock clouding up the water. The skimmer and floss took the bulk of it out. It was cool.

[@aquaman0167]

The advice Victor gave about replacing your clean up crew was an epiphany for me. I was one of those people who believed that if I brought 20 snails, I had 20 snails. Now I realize that’s just not realistic. Thank you Victor and BRS

[@MyFirstFishTank]

Excellent advice!

[@locksmith9580]

15:04 I have a few of those vernitide snails and like 3 small aptasias on a coral I got. Seems like a peppermint shrimp would be my solution. Wondering though if you can have different species of shrimp. I already have a cleaner shrimp

[@jakobsmith1396]

As far as helping someone with curating a tank... Plugging in your wants and helping you pick and choose what works together and telling you when and how to add them to your tank could definitely be an idea for an app.

[@NinjaSushi2]

1:35 facts! Lol my dang Wrasse keep eating my snails. My puffer too.

[@CvonEssen]

I set up my nano just for the cleaner shrimp!

[@AlexGhostDragonUK]

How many different types of shrimp can you keep in a 45 gallon mixed reef, I only have 2 scarlet/fire shrimp so far?

[@NengVang2007]

I wonder if you can show us the picture when you talk about each animal, because new beginners no idea what animal you talk look like.

[@jacksonsparrow8865]

Are sand sifter stars a good addition to an aquarium or not? I read somewhere many people saying they are a big mistake and will crash your tank but eating l of the good beneficial bacteria

[@Apollo6166]

I really wish you guys had included photos of each critter, it would have been more fun to watch

[@richardurdaneta530]

Good idea

[@mikkostenberg1740]

Nice beneficial video! 👌😃 But we need an update on Ryan's 360! ☝️🙂

[@Reefspidey]

Someone needs to start selling packs of frozen sea stars

[@justinthibodeaux1460]

Packs of Frozen Astarena Stars!!!

[@NinjaSushi2]

For my Harlequin shrimp.

[@TF-Times]

I bet you can find at an Asian market.

[@jasepoag8930]

I asked my harlequin tusk, and he said I should definitely add lots of shrimp to the tank. lol

[@Ilovedtiiiiiiiiiiiiiii]

So glad I found this video. So helpful. And wow how deep is the sand in that cube behind y’all?

[@randyr.8115]

Haha! I'm pretty sure I put 2x 10lb bags in there. So...4"-5" maybe?! 😅

[@jtor1409]

I have found my cucumber in my overflow filter socks multiple times. The overflow weir is very tight compared to the size of the cucumber yet it manages to squeeze past

[@LunaReefs]

@Vic, I am that 1%! but sometimes the latter 😆 Grateful to Brent that recommended Cleaner Shrimps. I have one in both tanks. @Ryan I was woken up by a crash sound in my tank the other night due to an Urchin completely knocking over an arch 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@drewchance9562]

Thank you guys I have learned a lot from you both hopefully help me not make as many mastics 😊

[@dadsquatch79]

GARF used to sell their "grunge" and clean up crews that were fantastic

[@dadsquatch79]

@@jdamommio no, sally lee retired and they sold everything off....

[@BlytheDyson]

When do we get an update on the 360??

[@airrund08]

Here... kzbin.info/www/bejne/pIa3nZaPa7Jng68

[@domingo-7]

👍

[@JurassicGenerations]

How long into the tank life can I add a peppermint? Been cycling with live sand for about a month and had two clown fish in there for a few days now. No algae growth yet

[@MaxelWong]

I'd suggest only adding the shrimp if you notice apptasia and letting your tank mature another 2 months

[@josh.kaptur]

on so many other videos you emphasize the importance of QT of our fish, and even of our corals if we are going to be really serious. So are we just supposed to throw snails and crabs and shrimp from the same tanks at the LFS right in our tanks?

[@fmmrz5]

They actually said many times that if you want to be perfect you have to qt all corals and inverts and even algae/anything wet but randy says that’s just too much for him so his strategy is to just buy his fish from marine collectors and take the risk on other things. It’s all risk mitigation. Can never truly be 100% certain. Inverts are a much lower risk item since the only way they can transmit fish parasites is if one encysts on the shell then hatches in your tank or if the water in the shell has some. Coral qt is mostly for coral diseases, but also ich can encyst on frag plugs or stony coral bases

[@scottallan6770]

What I really want to know is which starfish etc will devour pods. I would love to add various starfish and other cleaners but don't want them to eliminate my pod population. THX!!!

[@jjmccloud]

Bruh, snails have eyes too 🤣

[@TheYear2525]

Conchs like the Conomurex luhuanus actually have by far the most evolved eyes of all snails for some reason. But yea, I think pretty much all snails have additional light receptors all over their body. And it's not like you need eyes to find food in seconds, even in the flow. If I drop like 6 teeny tiny granules of food, in one corner of the tank, even the fish will sniff it out from the other side, search for it and find it in under a minute. Shrimp, crabs and even snails are better at sniffing though and might be closer and faster, and actually take a more direct route. The fact that they all make a bee line towards some tiny granules in the flow, without even seeing them, amazes me. Then there are the brittle stars. As long as the food is in a 20 cm radius around their body, the super longs arms can sniff it out an reach it in seconds. That can be a nuisance when it comes to spot feeding corals. They are the no 1 food snatchers in my tank. Maybe only the cleaner shrimp can get some food out of their grapple. But not that much actually.

[@ManiacalMangoes]

My nassarius snail came out of the sand and munched a big vermatid once I cracked the shell

[@Ilovedtiiiiiiiiiiiiiii]

Can you have all these different shrimp in the same tank?

[@McGD4]

Yes I agree, dead carpet anemone is the worst. Dumped it down my tub drain. Wake up next morning and my room mate was like: I was bleaching and cleaning the tub this morning cuz this horrible smell wouldn’t go away. (Didn’t say I dropped the carpet anemone the night before)

[@kaldenkyulo4100]

Peppermint shrimp are my acan & bother my other corals & pull food out of their mouths so I gave the em away few weeks later aptasia

[@TheYear2525]

Just my blab: -Snails: YES PLEASE, get different sizes. I'd recommend trochus, stomatella and bumble bee. And maybe those dorky Strombus luhuanus! -Hermites: I BANNED THEM, they are pure evil, even Clibanarius tricolor eventually. I gave them a ton of houses yet they always wanted the house the other one had. They also killed big trochus snails by wedging their pincers under their operculum, having day long static fights until the snail was exhausted and got eaten. Also they throw frags around like no one else. -Cleaner Shrimp: MOST DEFINATELY, litterally eats out of your hand. Might eat right out of coral's stomaches too if very hungry. That's obviously not cool but it cedes eventually with feeding. -Emerald crabs: I have not had much luck with them. They always vanished eventually. Also they didn't retain their green colour but became white-ish? I never had much problems with bubble algae, though. But there are always tiny amounts *somewhere* in my tank. -Peppermint shrimp: no idea, never had them. For aiptasia I go the slug route. For vermitides I hope the bumble bees are doing the job. Peppermints seem to be kinda agressive so I avoid them. -Harlequin shrimp: never had one. I don''t really understand the need to battle asterinas. I just picked all of them out of the tank like twice and now and I see one maybe once a month that I may pick up or may not pick up. The dark asterinas seem to be much more aggressive towards corals than the lighter ones. -Urchins: I only had Mespilia globulus. Superb algae eater but might die without enough of them. Knocks over frags or simply just uses them as a hat. -Sand cleaners: I don't trust nassarius. Strombus luhuanus is awesome in general but I don't know how effective they are. -Brittle stars: YES. I have 2 of those huge but spiny black-white-ringed ones for looks. In addition I have a lot of those tiny ones. I needed to introduce them deliberately. The tiny ones are super cute and great for the tank. I love them! I like to think they compete with bristle worms and other nuisances. I had a lot of bristle worms in the past but redid nearly all of the scape and dipped everything. I hadn't seen one for months after that. Eventually I discovered 2 and picked them up. Maybe it's only coincidental but I feared they would flare up again, but they never did. That also coincided with the introduction of the tiny brittle stars. But at the end I have no idea if there was some causation or only correlation. The big spiny brittle stars are well capable of snatching all the food from corals after spot feeding, though. They have a huge reach and you can do nothing about it. Mine have arms that are close to 20 cm long. -Sand cucumber: Oh, I didn't know about these. I've had something like that per chance but I didn't know you can get them as part of a cleaning crew. GIMME! -I know the butt fish :D . Cucumbers even evolve "teeth" and other strategies, because those fish really annoy and eventually harm the cucumbers. They are pretty much a parasite.

[@eduardoportillo3493]

Where was Casper?😉

[@jordonstout1682]

Everybody looks at me like I’m crazy when I tell them I don’t ever vac my sand. I have a 5x28x18 150 total gallons and I have a diamond goby 35 nessarus snails 4 tiger conchs two urchins I need a sand sitting star though. I knew I was onto something by loading my sand bed with critters

[@pataclow]

where's part 1 ?

[@PhiCongDoan7587]

So can I have a Harlequin Shrimp with a Sand Sifting Starfish in the same tank?

[@NerdistAquarist]

Hermit crabs just love killing my snails, I stay away.

[@oclique732]

Try putting larger shells in there

[@MumRah]

I can't have an emrald crab last more than a couple of weeks. 😢

[@WhozaCardoza]

It's called a pearl fish that lives in a sand cucumber

[@RichardHaig-sd6rc]

Interesting video but in my experience a lot of these critters are not practical to keep together. I’ve watched a hermit crab rip through 10 snails in a couple to weeks. To me, you have one or the other unless you’re partial to feeding crabs live snails every week.

[@strawhat1702]

What about horse shoe crabs

[@dgraff1980]

I really like my blue hermit crabs but every few weeks some make there way by My clowns hide out and they don't make it out alive.

[@forrestfleishauer1590]

can confirm...carpet nem smells bad. But not as bad as mass turbo snail death.

[@forrestfleishauer1590]

Also...snails have eyes.

[@zachselvidge4955]

Urchins will eat electrical cords that are not covered

[@randyr.8115]

Does no one answer comments anymore?? Wow.

[@girishpatil7201]

how to remove limpets snail ?

[@ChadwickHorn]

Why? They're good CUCs.

[@girishpatil7201]

@@ChadwickHorn because they are breeding heavily and then eventually die because of not getting food and i have big nitrate spike on my tank

[@JohntheHalloweenguy]

Top 10 useful fish video. ? Ones that actually have a purpose

[@benjaminwagoner]

The most useful critter is my hand to be honest

[@ArvinDuaneTomacruz]

Victor reminds me of Cesar Milan

[@dadsquatch79]

The buttfish is the best....

[@valdezorbust]

You should have a link to the first part in the description

[@oldschoolnewventure845]

Ive heard of these butt fish lol

[@darrelsutterfield2417]

Think they are called Pearlfish

[@jonoh20]

Cleaner shrimp affordable…? Good joke!