What eats little pieces of organics on LS?

[Sylock]

I've got a few little pieces of some organic matter that skirts the bottom of my nano. The scarlets (3) seem to want to stay on the rock. Below is my setup.

[Doug1]

The peppermint shrimp is prolly scrounging some at night, you might add another, and they will breed in the tank, providing live food for the corals.
Nassarius snails are always a good scavenger and a few small bristle worms wont hurt either , HTH

[cath]

Originally posted by Doug1
The peppermint shrimp is prolly scrounging some at night, you might add another, and they will breed in the tank, providing live food for the corals.
Nassarius snails are always a good scavenger and a few small bristle worms wont hurt either , HTH

Nassaius snails! I love those guys! Need to get about 20 of them for my tank.

[galleon]

Are we talking about the typical detrital matter? Its a conglomeration of coral mucus, animal excretions, bacterial populations explosions, etc, etc... not to mention food for everything from amphipods to corals. The goal should be to keep it suspended, but there will always be a breakdown point in our captive environments; this material can not be completely utilized... it is continually broken down before or after consumption, but only to a point, then it is often utilized by something different and started on a new cycle. There is generally nothing on a reef that can't be used by something. The water is nutrient poor, but not the reef itself... And even in the wild, much of this material that can be leftover or still in various stages of being broken down is strained and decanted, and sent into inshore seagrass/mangrove or surf environments where it can be much further utilized.