Not a master my friend just a boob that has made most of the mistakes already
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Scott after reading your posts we are on different trains of thought on what we want to kill and what we want to keep. I do not want to keep any planktonic critters or related things, if they live no problem, if they die all the better.
Here is where I am coming from. Natural food, from pods to nekton to bacteria are not pound for pound anywhere as good as... lets say a equal peice of shrimp IMHO. if you say take that pod you want to save and line it up to an equal size peice of shrimp then look at the two. The pod is made up of meat, skeliton, shell, antenni and so on, the only portion of the pod that has nutritional value is basically the meat (maybe 40%???) where as the eual size peice of shrimp is all good 100%. this goes all the way down the food chain. Now if you take it a bit deeper eliminating these shels and antenii and so on will slow down the ammount of end product detritus you are allowing to sit in your tank.
Another thought, If you allow a population of natural food in your tank they are incharge not you, they will populate and die off when they want to, so you cannot control the input and output of a food source in your tank. When you use food that you put into your tank ou can control the ammount you want to put in, and thus also be able to export it accordly. One thing to remember is that you will always have a large population of bacteria, and bacteria is the main food source for most corals beyond thier photosynthetic processes.
So to answer your question make your UV the last filter in your setup, dont worry about the bugs, and make sure the water flow through it is slow.
Mike