Clean-up crews eating dead things.

I'm planning on setting up my 29 gal. tank to be as self-ran as possible. I take a lot of business trips out of state and am often gone for a few days at a time. I plan to set up an aquafuge to help lower nitrates and work as a natural food supply for the fish and possibly corals. I'm going to replace the contents of my cannister filter with LR rubble. I also plan to have a very efficient clean-up crew. The one thing I'm still not sure about is what if something dies while I'm gone. If a snail, crab, fish, or something died in the tank and I was not here to remove it, would the clean-up crew eat/dispose of it?

Grins said:

All depends on your clean up crew. I'd still advise on having a tank sitter come at least every other day. Just to be sure nothing odd had occured (electrical, plumbing, etc.)

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I would if I could, but I'm currently living in a small town full of drunks and other non-responsible people. Letting anyone that lives within 50 miles of here near my tank would certainly be a disaster. There is basically nobody with saltwater tanks up here. There was 1 guy about 5 years ago that had a 55 gal. w/ a lionfish in it. Some people that he had at his house kept feeding it the feeder fish one after another until it died. I would be pissed if that happened to me.