Cadavers, shells, skeletons, take it or leave it.

Taking out a shrimp skeleton out of the tank, suddenly realised that many of my cerith snails shells where empty.



Bit annoyed really, i took them out as well, and wondering if others do the same, if its better to leave them there, for any reason at all, or like me i like to know that if its there its alive.....



The same goes for the shrimp skeleton should i leave it there to be food for critters or is it good maintenance to take it out.



In my refugium i like to keep it mostly orderly , but leave the little bits there, just in case disaster, and your main shrub dies or becomes prey to what ever , you still have , small bits to pick up with. Learned that one very quickly and saved me from ordering again.







I should point out that my tank is a no hermith zone, they've clean me out too many times of snails and then kill each other out. So i only have snails, urchins, conch, serpent star, starfish, and other cleaners that don't prey on one another. Emeral crab are the only ones i have. And never seen them attack any of my snails.



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