Hermit crab poop

[reefguy.5]

I have noticed a lot of hermit crab
Waste my tank. I was just wondering if other hermit crabs or clean up crew members would eat that. Or if I had to clean it out

 

[Timfish]

Coral food. If it bothers ou go ahead and siphon it out. But fish poop is an important source of nitrogen, phosphorus and carbon for corals and I'd hazard to guess hermit crab poop is too.

Fish as major carbonate mud producers and missing components of the tropical carbonate factory

Carbonate mud is a major constituent of recent marine carbonate sediments and of ancient limestones, which contain unique records of changes in ocean chemistry and climate shifts in the geological past. However, the origin of carbonate mud is controversial and often problematic to resolve. Here...

www.pnas.org

 

[Hadla]

Bristle worms! Or sea cucumbers