What Invert cleans up animal waste and uneaten food

[kyarnkid]

I have some small flakes laying on the bottom of my tank. (I think it is the reason I have some ammonia right now). Well, what kind of invert eats uneaten food and animal waste.
I have blue legs but do they do the job?
What about cleaner shrimp?
Please tell me I do not have to clean the small, tiny fractions of flake food off the bottom.

 

[pibulljc]

yes your blue legs will clean uneaten food but you will need alot,cleaner shrimp mean they will clean ich and parasites off fish not your uneaten food.I have a sea cucumber who does great picking thru rocks and bottom of tank,starfish will do a nice job to,i have a coc. chip and he does great but not reef safe ,snails(alot)will help but watch over feeding and your ammonia will go down. if u have any other Q. email me at pitbulljc@webtv.net

 

[fshhub]

cleaner shrimp are scavengers, and willeat anything they can get their claws on, including parasites, and uneaten food,
but also, some nassarius snails are a big help with leftovers, if it is alot, you can try to scoop some out, using a unused plastic cup, even if you get a few grains of sand, it is better than leaving it there, rotting, then do a water change
HTH

 

[ironreef]

shrimp and anything with a claw will scavange. Brittle/serpant stars nass snails will also. In a healthy reef theres pods thatwil scavange so you don't need to worry about leftover foods. If you have a dsb the worms /tube snails will feed also. The small BUG population is what makes a reef healthy . So they must be feed also. But don't grossly over feed either.