Jeremy1988
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Does anyone have any recommendations for fish BESIDES jawfish and Engineer gobys that like to burrow and PREFERABLY need a DSB? Thanks
Need fish for DSB
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mike61289
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It depends on your experience and aquarium size. We'll need more information.
Leopard wrasses love to bury themselves under the sand at night. Flounders like to blend in with sand and are known to bury themselves a bit too. Rays bury themselves at night. Pistol shrimp and watchman goby relations are cool to watch.
Those are just some examples. Sorry if that's a little broad, but I have no idea how big your tank is so I'd rather give you more options than less.
Leopard wrasses love to bury themselves under the sand at night. Flounders like to blend in with sand and are known to bury themselves a bit too. Rays bury themselves at night. Pistol shrimp and watchman goby relations are cool to watch.
Those are just some examples. Sorry if that's a little broad, but I have no idea how big your tank is so I'd rather give you more options than less.
Jeremy1988
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Its a 90 gallon reef tank, with a scissortail dartfish, tanaka pygmy wrasse, yellow clown goby, and rainford goby for now. Soon additions will be a sunburst anthia, geo pygmy hawk, and maybe a blue assessor or tailspot blenny towards the end. I have a 3-5" DSB in certain places. The front half of my tank is mostly crushed coral and coarse aragonite sand, while the back is strictly coarse aragonite
Jeremy1988
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Nah...I'v heard those are pretty hard to care for and hard to come by. Long story short...I set up a 90 gallon reef tank 8 months ago with the intent that a yellowheaded jawfish would be the focus fish of the tank, with the fish I mentioned above it was supposed to be one of the earliest additions. I have LOTS of LR, a deep sand bed as mentioned, I really planned ahead for this guy. A for the most part sealed up canopy and overflow area. At any rate I have went thru 3 of them now, I got one from LA, one from BlueZoo and one from Vivid aquariums. The one from Blue zoo came in with 2 weird white abnormality spots on it, not ICK, the one from LA didn't really settle into the quarantine and started doing the grasping for air and swimming all over the place deal, the most recent one from Vivid looked great! He lasted a solid 3 months and then like the one I had started doing the "self destruct mode", he was eating well, great colors, had a 360 view going completely vertical in the sand bed and would even calmly swim across the middle of the tank collecting pieces of coral for his den and NEVER tried to jump from what I could tell. Now its been 3 days and I haven't seen him, and have not seen new rock movement around his den. I checked his den area the best I could and found nothing but what seemed to be a collapsed den. I checked my overflow the best I could, and sump and found nothing as well. The problem is I think maybe the sand bed was so deep he could have died way down in there. The quarantine also had LR and at least a 3 inch sand bed around it. I'm really frustrated...water quality is great, nothing has changed...after searching the end of the internet on information on these guys it seems like A-these fish ship poorly, they actually don't usually have long term success in a tank (jumping or suddenly dying as mentioned above). I was thinking of just vacumming out some of the deep sand bed areas in the tank and moving on from the jawfish era. I have heard that a DSB can cause problems in itself anyways...
Jeremy1988
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I'm pretty sure I'm just going to vacuum out all the crushed coral sitting on top and have it maybe no more than 3"...I actually kinda don't like the look of such a deep sand bed...just looks kinda weird I personally think. Plus I think that besides jawfish it seems like not many fish need such a deep sand bed...even wrasses don't need something that deep 4-5" do they to burrow? I already have a tanaka pygmy wrasse and getting a leopard wrasse with only a 7 month old tank I think would be pretty foolish, along with a rainford goby that competes for pod populations...
Kremis
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If you are up for it, I 100% recommend getting garden eels. I have 4 in my tank and they are super cool. They need at least 5 inches of sand, and will do great with your current stock list. They are not that hard as long as you have a deep sand bed. The only extra maintenance is, well, really nothing. They are as easy to keep as any other fish, and very cool. I also have a jawfish in a different tank, and they are cool. If I were you, I would do like a half-half kind of thing, with one side of the tank DSB with garden eels and the other side maybe a mixed reef. Good luck
Jeremy1988
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O those are really cool! Hmmm I'll save that in my favorites. I think for now I will just asses if I really want a deep sand bed long term. I removed the crushed coral that was laying on top of it which brought it back down about 2"...so I think I will for now not go with the DSB...I'm sure there is heavy debate, but I have heard a lot of long term negative factors in having one...especially if its not stirred up every so often...then again I heard don't touch it and it does fine....my general cosines is that I find more people saying that long term there not good to have...or need to be replaced. I do like that curious worm fish tho, they are cool!
ThRoewer
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Yep, garden eels is their common name. A LFS here has a bunch of them. They are cool fish in the right setting.
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alton
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For best results with jawfish use Kara and Phillip
http://www.kpaquatics.com/product/mated-pair-of-yellowhead-jawfish/
http://www.kpaquatics.com/product/mated-pair-of-yellowhead-jawfish/
