I have recently purchased (just over a week ago) a cleaner shrimp and a couple of margarita snails. I have a 50g aquarium with 65lbs of live rock (started set-up April 17th). On the live rock I have seen found many hitchhikers and identified most of them. The include peanut worms, bristleworms, amphipods, and stomatella all of which seem to be very good additions to the aquarium.
However after adding the cleaner shrimp I haven't seen many bristleworms and wondering if the cleaner shrimp may be eating these as snacks? (I am guessing the peanut worms would not eat the bristleworms - but I have been wrong before). Also looking at getting some more snails for the CUC (Cerith and some more Margaritas but wondering if I have to worry about the cleaner shrimp eating the snails? (Note: I have not been feeding the cleaner shrimp anything yet as I feel he has lots of food to snack on in the aquarium - Is that assumption a mistake on my part?... He seems very healthy and has molted already once).
Canreef has helped me answer many of the questions I have had starting my tank.
Thanks for the wealth of information and anytime spent on this post
Tim