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[dominican]

The Orange Spotted Prawn Goby is the answer to your problems: Is the answer to your problems:
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I have a 150g fowlr and have lots of windows in my house. I've got a good clean-up crew, but they weren't addressing the substrate. I was very frustrated for a few months. I got this guy, and he keeps my substrate looking AWESOME. Only two drawbacks: 1) until he covers the whole tank, he'll kick up clouds, but as he gets around, the aragonite gets cleaned up and clouds are not a problem (i have no issues with this after about a month), 2) He makes tunnels under LR; looks like a friggin engineering project. LR gets dug in, but it didn't cause any problems - just fyi. Had to share cause he's such a valuable part of my system. Enjoy.

 

[maxpain]

Do you have to feed him anything special?

 

[sergeant]

Can you post a pic to see what does he looks like?

 

[tyedyed1]

id like to see a picture of the little guy also....

 

[markymark]

not if you want a live sand bed

 

[lion_crazz]

Thanks for the info, Dominican!

 

[miel]

Hey MarkyMark, Please elaborate, is this goby hard on the substrate? How about crushed coral?

 

[markymark]

it eats all the microfauna of the sand bed.....so then it isn't live anymore

 

[obarrera]

Does it look like this?
http://a1272.g.akamai.net/7/1272/1121/20040331221130/www.***********.com/images/products/large/pw71419orangespotted_goby.jpg

 

[autopilot]

My diamond goby also does a great job. He swallow mouthfuls of sand and it comes back out his gills.

 

[dominican]

Yeah, that's the right pic. I've got about 200 lbs of LR, and it seems to keep the substrate seeded. I only have this one guy roving the aragonite, so I don't think he's doing irreparable damage - just cleaning the top layer. I could be wrong, but my LR and skimmer continue to do a great job keeping my water quality up to par (+monthly 25% water changes). Just offering this solution because it has worked for me. I don't have anybody eating diatoms (Emperor Angel, Yellow Tang, Maroon Clown, Threadfin Butterfly, Pseudochromis, 3 Yellowtail Damsels, 1 Red Cleaner and 1 fire shrimp, 2 Urchins, cleanup snails & reefsafe hermits), so that might be a consideration if you have a Dragonet. Hope this helps...