clean sand?

[blue steel]

well I was wondering what would be the best thing to do to get a sand bed that is clean and white? I was told that blue legged crabs are good so I bought one and it does nothing I was also told to buy to aquacultured fighting conches and they dont even move they stay under the sand all day.

 

[thomas712]

Good water flow
Good cleaup crew
Nassarius snails
Fighting conch
Cerith snails
Scarlet hermits
Good pod population
Just to name a few
Thomas

 

[blue steel]

what are pods

 

[thomas712]

Amphipods
Copopods
Isopods
They are necessary for a heathy sandbed
They live in live rock and sand, they help to churn a sandbed slowly, mixing the nutrients and water flow into the sandbed where the nutrients can be processed, they also breakdown the larger detritus into smaller ones that can be processed as well.
Thomas