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dendro982
07/14/2006, 10:47 AM
Which small fish will do the work of picking pieces of seafood (shrimp, fish) dropped to the bottom during another fish feeding?
Tank is 90g, 1 month old, bare bottom (kitchen board), LR, macroalgae, with 5" tasseled filefish and small valentini puffer, pincushion urchin, blood shrimp and turbo-snail. Would like to add corals in future.
Or may it be some invertebrates?
Any ideas are welcome!

fnicklaus
07/14/2006, 02:26 PM
Snails and scavenger inverts. Many large gobies.

hgbarwick
07/14/2006, 02:33 PM
You will need a sand bed for most gobys. Do hermits.

dendro982
07/15/2006, 09:51 PM
Thanks for the replies! What snails will eat fish/shrimp pieces? Turbo, astrea and nassarius that I have seems only graze on LR.

yeldarbj
07/16/2006, 05:58 AM
My nassarius snails come running anytime there is food in the tank (but I have a sandbed), maybe that makes a difference for them. If one of them catches a large chunk of meat, it usually turns into a group feeding frenzy until it is all gone.