Whats the simplest way to keep a sandbed white!?
 

I have a huge problem. My sandbed for the past four months has gone brown. I have tried feeding less and that didnt help, vacuming didnt either so I bought a sea cukeumber and all it does is slack off. Any tips? The sandbed looks horrible.

Matt

Dragon goby and a pistol shrimp works great for me, keeps my entire 180g nice and white.

The first thing I would do is change the avitar. Man that M M is creepy. After that I would add in a few fighting conches and a pair of watchman or orange spot gobies to help sift the top layer of sand. There are other good sandsifters but some fish (eg: dragon goby) make a real mess and spread sand all over, while watchman tend to stay low in the tank. IME What size of tank is it?

My dragon definately makes a mess, but he is well worth it, so great to watch. My orange spot did diddly squat for sifting, he just sat on the sand and protected my piston shrimp.

An excellent skimmer and plenty of flow :)

Ditto, battled my problem with a huge skimmer and good flow. I am starting to see the benefits of spending large dollars for a good skimmer :)

I cant really have a pistol shrimp and goby because my tank is full of fish that would eat them. The tank is a 75 gallon FOWLR. For a skimmer I have a Red Sea Berlin Hang-on Protein Skimmer and for flow I use a Quite One 6000 but with not all of the flow on. 1506 g/h would be too much so I have this nifty little deelie that I turn to change flow. Fighting conches would be a good idea.

Matt

doesn't work for me...maybe 3000gph overturn isn't enough in 100gal tank! BRING ON THE TUNZE! (I have a fairly large skimmer as well)

gonna look into the dragon goby thing

I have a conch, nassarius(?) snails, and a sand sifting goby that keeps my sand clean.