[jumpincactus]

Asking if a few snails and some crabs are really necassary in the reefs we keep is like percieiving a nest without a bird, or a sky without a sun. As someone mentioned earlier the cycle of life travels in circles. I do not buy into the cleaner crew bit that most LFS would have you believe that your tank cannot live without them. But I do believe this, Fools Crow said many years ago that Power travels in circles. The eagle builds his nest in a circle, most birds do. The wind swirls in circles. Mans life cycle travels in circles, from infancy to aduthood to old age and then completes the circle back to infancy again. The moon is round, the sun is round, Power travels in circles, as is the cycle of life on the reef.

If anything should be said about "Cleaner Crews" I would say this, when they are no longer part of a living reef system we as humans have taken the edge of the envelope too far.

AHO Mitakuye Oyasin