Who's your favourite (or not) sand sifter ?

[gregzz4]

Who's been your most and least favourite sifter ?

Don't judge my question based on how new my tank is
I'm just lookin' for 'down the road' critters

[wmcinnes]

Ive asked this question before and heard that the Diamond Goby is the best.. best sand sifting fish wise anyway, im not too sure about the other critters. Others will chime in and help you out more than I can haha

[gregzz4]

Thanks Wayne
The Diamond comes up a lot

I searched long enough that I felt it might be better to start a new thread specific to sifters

[subman]

My favorite was a tiger tail cucumber. Love the diamond gobies but hate the mess they make. I think my all time favorite was a goat fish I had for about 10min till my lion ate him. (The goatfish was to big for him to eat but he jammed it down his throat by ramming into the rocks!)

[Proteus]

Goat fish are rad but get a little big for your 75g. I had a diamond gobie that was great at sifting. But covered everything.

My favorite is a very large snail. Can't remember the name but is brown and huge. And my conchs

[Enigma]

Originally Posted by Titus99

Goat fish are rad but get a little big for your 75g. I had a diamond gobie that was great at sifting. But covered everything.

I have a Signal Goby who does the same thing. He covers everything in sand: including my gorgeous Acan colony. My sandbed looks great, but he drives me nuts. I'm in my tank every day digging things out of the sand. He also digs out the sand underneath my scape. Thankfully, my scape is simple and won't topple.

He may wind up a "free to a good home" fish.

[dc4]

Originally Posted by gregzz4

Who's been your most and least favourite sifter ?

Don't judge my question based on how new my tank is
I'm just lookin' for 'down the road' critters

Well, when your tank its ready, you can have my Rainfords goby. I'm tired of him covering up my scoly, plates, chalices, and Zoas. Drives me nuts...

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By the way, Diamond Goby and Orange spotted goby aren't the same at all.

The orange spotted goby is a shrimp goby, he'll never clean out the sand.

The Diamond Watchamn Goby is a sandsifter... probably the best one out there. There's also the Golden Head Goby that does a great work too.

[xnmuller]

I very much enjoy my little two spot goby. While a 135 gallon may be a little too much territory for one little two spot (I also have 4 nassarius and a sand sifting star), he does do a good job where he is working. The diamond watchman is probably a more effective sand sifter but the two spot does not drop sand all over everything.

[gregzz4]

Thanks to everyone for the input. It's nice to have all this info in one thread
You've narrowed down the list for me to gobies and/or just nassarius snails

Any more input on specific gobies would be great