u/TinyTropicals

Gonna keep this short.

I think we owe it to people newer to the hobby to stop referring to arthropods as clean-up crews. They are not that, and describing them as such gives newer folks the impression that they’re doing something wrong when they see mold, or a herp’s poop remains untouched.

Meanwhile, these people are doing everything right—more than right, oftentimes—and are being instructed to sink even more money into things they don’t need.

I was this person, roughly 15 years ago.

I hate seeing it happen to others, over and over again. It’s not fair to them. This hobby is already expensive.