live sand, gobys and Indo-Pacific Sea Farms (ipsf.com)

[utdrmac]

Hey guys,
I've got an 75gal main with 10 gal sump (sand bed in sump, aragonite in main). I just got a goby and would like to get another but I've read they mostly live on what grows in your live sand..those little critters..copeopods i think..

anyway, im not so sure my sand bed produces enough of these. guy at LFS says the glass on his main tank usually has a nice handful of these "little white specks" and his mandrin goby just gobbles them up.

I've never seen anything like this in my tank. i wanted to get that live sand starter kit from indo-pacific sea farms (ipsf.com) but their site doesn't look very trusting since all the images are broken. I've emailed them about this but haven't received a response (been over a month).

Can anyone vouch for them? I'd rather not send $100 to Hawaii and never see anything come of it.

Thanks,
Matthew

 

[capncapo]

They've been around for quite a while. I wouldn't be overly concerned about them.

Check in the vendor feedback forum and see if you can find any negative feedback.

 

[LAreefer]

i've never dealt with them directly, but i've heard a lot of good feed back from many hobbiests. hope your copepods grow nicely.

 

[bertoni]

I wouldn't bother with a live sand starter kit if you have a sand-sifting goby. They will chew through the animals rapidly. A refugium might help, though.

 

[utdrmac]

ive got a refugium/sump. the overflow box goes into that and the main pump sends the water back up. the sump only hold about 10gal of water but has a 2in sandbed, lots of that green string-like alge (with the little bubbles) and about 20lbs of live rock in it. main tank probably has about 75lbs of live rock in it.

i just wish there was some way to see/confirm that i'm growing the things my goby wants to eat.