Cleaner Crew W/ invertebrate eating fish?

so this might be a really stupid question, but I noticed many saltwater fish say they arent invebrate safe, mostly because they like to munch on them.

so, say you have a Saddle Valentini Puffer which falls into this category, what the heck do you do for a cleanup crew?
 
@milkit wrote:
so this might be a really stupid question said:
Look in the mirror and say hello :)

About all you can do is frequent water changes, rock scrubing with a brush and keeping the tank as clean as possible. I know a few people who use really large pieces of LR and clean it off as best they can in the tank, then one every few months, or when it looks bad, they will pull it out and give it a good scrub in saltwater.

You can keep up on algae etc with the water changes and running a good skimmer and GFO or some PO4 control process, running a remote fuge etc.

Unfortunately the critters who may stand a chance for a time will probably eventually get eaten.. but those who stand the best chance are urchins, chintons and anything with a really strong foot and hard shell that stay plastered to the rocks. You might also try some of the tropical abalone.
 
or try to return this puffer? lol.. i think im going to see if I can tommorrow... impulse buys are bad. after a couple hours of acclimation, and an hour of fishing out the damsels we had in the tank, we went to dinner.

came home to find 3 dead hermits. needless to say he has been quarantined overnight before he got to my cleaner shimp and such. Hopefully we can fix this situation in the morning.
 
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