Good sand sifter 14 gallon nano

[greenarrow169]

Currently need some type of sand sifter to move and clean the sand in my bio cube. I have two ocellaris clowns and one six line wrasse. As a clean up crew I have some turbo snails and a few hermit crabs. Can somebody recommend a good sand sifter.

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[crew]

14 gallons is pretty small - you may want to go with nassarius snails. Most sand sifters will probably starve if you wanted to go the fish route.

 

[greenarrow169]

I was looking at doing a watchman goby pistol shrimp pair but do not think I will get much sand agitation or cleaning from that

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[crew]

You could do those, but neither is a sand sifter. They will create their burrow and that will be the end of that.

You could go with a yellow diamond goby, but it will almost certainly starve to death.

 

[greenarrow169]

What do you think about the micro brittle stars

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[dball711]

Crew;1069670 wrote: 14 gallons is pretty small - you may want to go with nassarius snails. Most sand sifters will probably starve if you wanted to go the fish route.

+1, this is most likely the best bet in a small tank.

 

[bulkrate]

Micro brittles are great for general leftover food & detritus removal, but will hang out almost exclusively in the rockwork. In a small tank for sandbed stirring I'd go with dwarf hermits, ceriths or nassarius.

That or just stir a section of it each week with a good ol' pokin' stick or small gravel vac.

 

[greenarrow169]

Lol that is what I am do at this time. I am looking at a power vac so that I don't have to do a water change biweekly

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[elithelion]

Youd also have a constant sandstorm with a watchman in a 14gal

 

[greenarrow169]

Thanks for the good info

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