Who eats poo?

[rontam1979]

Hello board,
I am stil in the beginning steps to building a reef/fish tank and I've put in some clean up critters for the brown algae that has been accumulating in the tank. Well, the hermits and scooter blenny and cleaner shrimp and cerith snails and chocolate chip starfish (this guy I'll remove before I start adding coral) did their job, and cleaned up all the algae. But now I have what I'm guessing to be the critter droppings over the sand. What can I get to take care of that? Thanks in advance.
Ron

 

[krishj39]

well, probably best bet is pods and other such critters. however, since you have that scooter blenny, I'm sure you are very short on those. How is he eating by the way? Hermits and emeralds MIGHT eat some of it, but mine certainly show no interest. Not much above the microscopic level will CHOOSE to eat poop if there is anything better to eat. As a curious but useless side note, I discovered yesterday that all my fish love my feather dusters' poop. They fight over it.

 

[bang guy]

Cirratulid worms would be a good janitor for that type of detritus. Your hermits may eat the worms though, but perhaps not if they have plenty of other food.

 

[jibbittyflibbit]

ugh..
this is the wrong thread to be reading while eating a PBJ sandwich

 

[aggie05]

My friend John

 

[poiboy]

A good crap eater... well i'm not sure if all of them do it but, my banded coral shrimp loves eating crap. I saw him eating a rat size piece crap like it was going out of syle.... l8tr

 

[rontam1979]

Well, maybe I'll try putting in a few more hermits, but isn't that just going to grow my problem? I looked up those worms and they look kinda ugly, but I'll consider it if nothing else will work. Your friend John is welcome to come over anytime for lunch. I wish they had critters that take in all the critter droppings and release healthy detritus, like fuel cell cars.