Recommendation for sand bed cleaner (fish)?
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GoVols
Cobb Webb - 1989
I'm currently running bare bottom. But if I went back to a sand bed, I would have a Diamond Goby back in there. You also need to get it eating other foods like pellets and or Mysis shrimp or they will starve. These are the snails I used in my sand bed. They're awesome too.
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=497+526+1763&pcatid=1763
In the long haul it still comes down to good husbandry on your part to keep the bed siphoned and cleaned but those are awesome fish and snails to watch do their job.
If you get the Diamond he'll stir that bed up like nobodies business and sediment will be floating around and being caught by your filters but over time he''ll have all the fine dust a gone for a crystal clear tank even while he's sifting.
+1 - love my Diamond Goby. He readily eats mysis as well. Tank was pretty cloudy for the first week or so - but by now he's kicked up all the fine stuff.
Brieninsac
Member
+1 for the Diamond Watchman Goby. One of my favorite fish in the tank too.
Reincarnate
Member
This. ^^^
Those Gobies will move some sand around for you, but they're definitely not cleaning it for you.
GoVols
Cobb Webb - 1989
+1 back at ya
I'm running high flow bare bottom.
Do 15% weekly water changes.
During the water changes I still have to vacuum out detritus in a couple of dead spot areas on bottom of tank.
crocogator106
New member
A cucumber is a good choice for keeping the sand bed clean... dirty in..poops out clean
+1 on the cucumber. I've got both a Diamond Watchman Goby and a cucumber. I never see the goby and can't tell he does anything. The cucumber has been cleaning the sand non-stop since I put him in the tank.
My diamond goby cleans the sand sparkling clean I would recommend a really coarse substrate like Special Reef grade 1-2mm or they can create dust. He also eats mysis like crazy, I actually considered returning him the first week because I was scared he'd starve but once he got a taste for mysis he's turned into a greedy pig.
AlSimmons
New member
A Cucumber is kind of limited by the rock work IME. I'd rather just use a power head and stir up the substrate once every month or so right before a water change. It's amazing what can accumulate UNDER your rocks sometimes and with a power head you have access to that. A Cucumber is good, but I'm better.
