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

[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.

[fresh]

Ok, well that eliminates the gobies in that case.

Well you guys are good at telling me what not to get, but what about all the success stories that you want to share with me

[Kryten]

Maybe you didn't have enough strawberry conches for that size of tank. I have 2 in my 24 gal and they do a brilliant job.