How to keep a white sandbed?

[crobattt]

Is there any gobies or anything? I have a conch, and crabs, but is there snything else I can do? I know less feeding..


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[crobattt]

Also I'm using sand not gravel or anything


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[rsjoiner]

My sandbed is looking better than ever! Water change frequency has always kept my overfeeding in check but the addition of a Diamond Goby has made an amazing difference. He turns my sandbed over twice a week. Instead of a clean sandbed I now have a bright white sandbed.

 

[smallblock]

good quality water, turbo snails, gobies, conchs. Mine got alot better when I started running gfo and carbon. There is also another type of snail that I have that stay in the sand and they are really small. I don't know the name of them but they help alot too. I'll try to find the name of them tomar and get back with you. I may forget though.

You can alos clean it manually as well. I've heard horror stories from people who cleaned thier sand beds and stirred up too much. I stir mine up every water change which is about every 2 weeks and haven't had a problem.

I think if your sand bed hasn't been touched in several months is when it can go bad. So if you haven't cleaned it and stirred it up in a while start slow.

I stir mine up before I do a WC that way some of the particals floating around get sucked up.

One more thing what type of power heads are you running? I was amazed at all the stuff that got lifted off the bottom when I added a vortech. It will really help as well.

 

[superclown]

The snail you want that stays buried under the sand is this one

 

[smallblock]

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yep those are the ones, they are pretty small, and you really don't see them. Mine come running out when its feeding time.

 

[superclown]

yah I had one for about a year and when my tank nuked I was sure he was dead, had not seen him in a month and to my surprise when I started draining the water he surfaced like a little submarine I think its need when sometimes you can catch just the antenna sticking out the top of the sand

 

[crobattt]

ill def get a new CUC my triggers and eel decimated my last one.

 

[atmercure]

i had a problem with the sand staying kinda brown. had a diamond goby, hermits, nassarius snails. Started running phosguard and carbon in two little fishies reactors and for the last few months have had 0 problems. looks great. oh yeah, added a MP40, couldnt have hurt

 

[bulkrate]

How big's the tank? A decent variety of critters in the CuC (in my case astraeas/cerith snails and a couple of the smaller variety of blue-leg hermits) seems to be doing a good job of keeping the sand white. The burrowing goby approach WILL stir your sand a lot as well in the region it sets up shop in...but you may find yourself cursing the @#$! fish for dusting your corals on a routine basis.

If your sand is a mix that contains shell fragments, try scooping out some if the larger bits (&gt;3-4mm)...they tend to show the brown/green algae more.