sand sifting... I know a beaten topic!!!

[fresh]

Hi all,

I know this has been asked MANY times, and even I must have asked it somewhere along the way... However, I do have a sand sifting problem, and would like to solve it somehow.

I have tried the strawbery conches (2) and have tried the nassarius snails (10+), but my sand has never looked very clean!!! Both my conches have died (had them for a year) and my nassarius are always hiding... never get to see them clean...

I need help. Should I try a sand goby? a sand star? a cucumber (i know they can be really BAD if they die)?

I have a 72 gal with 5" of dsp and would like a GOOD sand sifter. I am contemplating going bare bottom just because of the lack of a clean sand bed!

Let me know.

Thanks.

[Pan]

Originally Posted by fresh

Hi all,

I know this has been asked MANY times, and even I must have asked it somewhere along the way... However, I do have a sand sifting problem, and would like to solve it somehow.

I have tried the strawbery conches (2) and have tried the nassarius snails (10+), but my sand has never looked very clean!!! Both my conches have died (had them for a year) and my nassarius are always hiding... never get to see them clean...

I need help. Should I try a sand goby? a sand star? a cucumber (i know they can be really BAD if they die)?

I have a 72 gal with 5" of dsp and would like a GOOD sand sifter. I am contemplating going bare bottom just because of the lack of a clean sand bed!

Let me know.

Thanks.

you need a diamond watchman goby.....or orange spotted sleeper goby...i think is the other name, i'm looking for one too...

[Bob I]

Originally Posted by fresh

Hi all,

I know this has been asked MANY times, and even I must have asked it somewhere along the way... However, I do have a sand sifting problem, and would like to solve it somehow.

I have tried the strawbery conches (2) and have tried the nassarius snails (10+), but my sand has never looked very clean!!! Both my conches have died (had them for a year) and my nassarius are always hiding... never get to see them clean...

I need help. Should I try a sand goby? a sand star? a cucumber (i know they can be really BAD if they die)?

I have a 72 gal with 5" of dsp and would like a GOOD sand sifter. I am contemplating going bare bottom just because of the lack of a clean sand bed!

Let me know.

Thanks.

Is the bottom of the ocean bright, white, and clean

[Richy44]

you need a diamond watchman goby.....or orange spotted sleeper goby

Take a mouthful, swim to the top, wait for Richy( he wants to see this) then SPIT it all over Everything......

I had a orange sleeper..took me about a month to get it out of my tank.

I now like the color of my sand very much just the way it is!

Rich..........

[Coderad]

I have a dragon goby, he dose a good job keeping the sand clean. But he dose make a little bit of a mess, piles of sand and a little sand on live rock.

[andresont]

I tryed many times to keep sand bed clean and never it was clean! i am going BB or les then 1" of sand next time.
Gobes are mess and they dont clean they sift for pods and worms

[albert_dao]

BB FTW!

LOL, anyway, how deep is your sand?

Edit: Duh, I just learned to read.

Yeah, 5" of sand... Dunno if you really want that thing thoroughly stirred.