Tank Update
I find that scarlet cleaners are moderately better behaved than peppermints. I have a pair of each in my 50 and if they are eating bristleworms then they certainly are not getting them all. I do find them to be pests if there is a animal that is having trouble eating quickly (i.e. bubble coral or open brain) because they steal the food before it's swallowed. Same thing with the yellow tang -- it's not enough that he gets the most food out of everyone in the tank, he must ensure that others do NOT get their fill, even if he doesn't eat the food himself (it's enough to pull it out of a corals mouth). Sigh ... scallions, the lot of them.
Every animal has some kind of impact. I guess at some point you have to decide with what you can live with and what you cannot live with .... fortunately you can have a refugium where you can let all the little creatures normally predated upon mercilessly live out their lives in there..
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