Keeping sand clean?
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xcali1985
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Hermits, Snails, etc.
Thats all I use, there are fish that can be used, however most all are also sand dwellers and will move the sand around to find a spot to call home. A Diamond Goby is a good fish, he will suck up sand clean it and spit it back out. Be aware that they also can swim with sand in their jaws and release it where ever they feel fit. If you have plate LPS or SPS corals take a lot of caution with these if sand is deposited on them they can become very irrated.
Im curious to ask what is going on with your sand. Are you in the initial diatom bloom most new tanks go through.
Thats all I use, there are fish that can be used, however most all are also sand dwellers and will move the sand around to find a spot to call home. A Diamond Goby is a good fish, he will suck up sand clean it and spit it back out. Be aware that they also can swim with sand in their jaws and release it where ever they feel fit. If you have plate LPS or SPS corals take a lot of caution with these if sand is deposited on them they can become very irrated.
Im curious to ask what is going on with your sand. Are you in the initial diatom bloom most new tanks go through.
ryancw01
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I have a diamond goby and he is a hard little worker. Keeps the sand bed totally white by turning it all over during the day. Has two burrows in the tank currently and he chills in those for the most part. Diamond gobys are not known for swimming around too much. When they are sifting they stay on the sand bed. Sleeper gobys with the blue heads are the ones that sift and swim at the same time.
bluetang66
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Diamond gobie
spanko
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Originally Posted by Bluetang66
http:///forum/post/3209026
Diamond gobie
IMO using a Diamond Goby Valenciennea puellaris to keep the sand bed clean is a bad idea unless one has a very large tank with enough substrate to maintain not only the goby but the flora and fauna in the sand. This type of sand sifter critter will decimate all of the valuable life in a sand bed not big enough to support it. Then you can end up with a sandbed devoid of life and the possibility of the goby starving to death. Please don't take my word for it, do some more research on sand sifting critters and their needs before moving in this direction. And when I say more research, not just on any sites that are selling these animals but in some of the more accepted materials that are trying to educate rather than see.
JMO
http:///forum/post/3209026
Diamond gobie
IMO using a Diamond Goby Valenciennea puellaris to keep the sand bed clean is a bad idea unless one has a very large tank with enough substrate to maintain not only the goby but the flora and fauna in the sand. This type of sand sifter critter will decimate all of the valuable life in a sand bed not big enough to support it. Then you can end up with a sandbed devoid of life and the possibility of the goby starving to death. Please don't take my word for it, do some more research on sand sifting critters and their needs before moving in this direction. And when I say more research, not just on any sites that are selling these animals but in some of the more accepted materials that are trying to educate rather than see.
JMO