Best sand sifter for sand bed

[likwid]

Originally Posted by Red Coral Aquariums

Valenciennea puellaris excellent sand sifter but will jump if frightened.
Kevin

Ya, red coral didnt have any of these in stock when I went in, so I bought a Randals Goby instead, which was a mistake as it does nothing at all for my sand.

[Red Coral Aquariums]

Let me know when you are back in town and I will take the Randal's back on trade for an orange spotted.
Kevin

[X-Treme]

Originally Posted by Red Coral Aquariums

Let me know when you are back in town and I will take the Randal's back on trade for an orange spotted.
Kevin

Wow....That is a REALLY cool thing to do. Talk about going above and beyond. We need a "Red Coral" up here.

[IMSURE]

I have a tiger tail sea cucumber, and it is doing pretty good job and should be a good choice. That is if you can take the risk of it poisoning other tankmates if it dies. I had mine for over three years, so far it is still doing okay.

I also have a pink spotted goby. It shift a lot of sand at first (first few months), moving sand from one end of the tank to the other. Sometimes it moved sand from under the rocks, and toppled the rocks over. It stopped shifting sand all together a while ago. Now that I have it for 6 years, it only eats the fish food from the water column.

From my experience, they only shift the sand if the surface is not cover with slime, hair or other types of algae except diatom algae.

[Gordon H]

We have two in our tank and they are unbelievable. They work from morning till night cleaning and sifting the top 1/2 inch of sand all around the tank. They have moved a fair bit of sand from one end of the tank to the other, but never onto the rocks or corals. We previously had a problem with Red Slime algae. Not anymore. These gobies really are the hardest workers in the tank - and their fun to watch too!

[Oscar]

Originally Posted by Gordon H

We have two in our tank and they are unbelievable.

Are they jumpers?

[ColinD]

Originally Posted by Oscar

Are they jumpers?

mines only made one attempt, and only after he was startled by my 2 1/2 year old pressing her face up against the tank, she's since learned to approach slowly and now he doesn't even retreat into his hole anymore.

Colin