keeping sandbed clean

[hwcheong]

Hi bro,

anyone can advice how to keep sandbed clean?

thanks

[reeftask]

no sand and frequent wash tank.

[cdckjn]

I have a black sea cucumber, a couple of snails, 2 starfish - all these in my 2ft tank - a great clean-up crew.

[huskypower75]

You can add a orange yellow goby

http://www.marinedepotlive.com/orange-diam...sh--gobies.html

I have one in nano and my sand is white as snow.

and fun to watich it scoop the sand in its mouth and spill out clean sand from the back.

Good fun fish

[Ah-lim]

2 brittle star, 1 sand goby, 1 sally light foot

[Metabolic_7]

a lot of sand dollar

[Zappy Kiwi]

Improve water circulation. Place wavemakers to blow at the areas where a lot of food/dirt/etc gets deposited.

[zipp86]

whatever you do, dont use sand sifter starfish cuz they will wipe out ALL life from ur sandbed making it essentially 'dead' with no micro movement in the sand. read wetwebmedia for more info.

[Zappy Kiwi]

I agree with Bro zipp86. Didn't know about this issue until I read it from an article, that sand sifting stars actually consumes the micro-organisms that reside in the sandbed. I have attached the link, do take a look. Moreover, after a few months, you will start to observe that the sand sifting star is getting skinnier, as if it is starving. (This happens to the sand sifting stars in my tank). IMHO, better to leave them in the sea where they can find plenty of micro-organisms in the sea bed.

Sand Sifting Stars

[georgekoh84]

Spotted many orange diamond gobies at AquaMarin Jalan Kayu

[scubajazz]

Spotted many orange diamond gobies at AquaMarin Jalan Kayu

Will these help to keep sandbed clean

[Ah-lim]

Gobys are bottom feeder, so yes, in a certain extent. Get a green brittle star lah, confirm work.

[souphamster]

i have a sand shifter star fish... so i must take it out ???

oh dear.. didnt know about this problem..

[big_ben102000]

i used to have 2 sandshifter star. one was attacked by my blue legged hermit so died after sometime. the other one is still doing fine crawling around. it has been with me for almost 6 months now. dont know whether my sand is "dead" but all my livestocks are doing fine at least for now.

[Zappy Kiwi]

Gobys are bottom feeder, so yes, in a certain extent. Get a green brittle star lah, confirm work.

Sorry for my ignorance, how does a green brittle star look like? Any pics will be good.

[jilinzai]

hihi,

I'm new in this hobby, so to keep the sand clean, what should i buy??

[Thexder]

hihi,

I'm new in this hobby, so to keep the sand clean, what should i buy??

Sand dollars are the best, IMHO.

[Alucard]

Sand dollars are the best, IMHO.

hi do we need to feed the black sea cucumber with liquid food? i got a tank with no fish and LR for the moment,only sand. Can i start putting one in the tank ?

thanks.

[shaohui75]

hi do we need to feed the black sea cucumber with liquid food? i got a tank with no fish and LR for the moment,only sand. Can i start putting one in the tank ?

thanks.

Do not get cucumber, once dead, it will release toxic that will wipe out the entire livestocks of your tank. A time bomb waiting to happen.

[Alucard]

Do not get cucumber, once dead, it will release toxic that will wipe out the entire livestocks of your tank. A time bomb waiting to happen.

so whats the next best thing i should get?

[vt_snowman87]

i think sand dollars are good.. it works for me..

[Yapster]

bro snowman, wats a sand dollar?

paisey, pls pardon my ignorance.

thanks in advance!

[huskypower75]

I have 1 orange diamond goby and its eating the sand and cleaning it like a vacuum cleaner and its very interesting to see it scooping up a mouth full of sand and spitting clean sand out of its gills

Superb fish

[scubajazz]

How does it look like, think of getting one, mine is quite dirty. I bought a yellow diamond goby which is not doing anything. Mine is like this one

I have 1 orange diamond goby and its eating the sand and cleaning it like a vacuum cleaner and its very interesting to see it scooping up a mouth full of sand and spitting clean sand out of its gills

Superb fish

[Randy]

How does it look like, think of getting one, mine is quite dirty. I bought a yellow diamond goby which is not doing anything. Mine is like this one

the fish looks nice though no doing any work