Safe Inverts in an SPS for Sandbed Cleaners......

[tegee]

Hello:

I am looking for safe inverts to clean my sandbed of detritus and need them to be safe in an SPS tank. Currently I have Scarlett Hermits and love them, but was thinking of adding some more worker bees in the invert category to keep things in check with my sandbed in particular.

Any help would be greatly appreciated......

 

[Whisperer]

Nassarius snail stir the sand by keeping themselves buried and emerge when they smell anything that had landed on the sand. They eat uneaten food on the sandbed. Cucumber ingest dirty sand and excrete them polished. Sand sifting sleeper gobies (not an invert, I know), sift and turmn the sand all day long, preventing accumulation of detritus on the surface. BTW, do not get the Yellow head sleeper goby, they swim up and dump sand on the lower corals and rocks.

 

[IEreef]

I personally like conches for my sand. Ive got 4 in my 75g and they keep my sand nice and clean.

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[tegee]

These are good recommendations. I had a sand shifting gobie and he did a great job, but my orange spotted gobie beat the crap out of him and he doesn't like blennies either.

Anyhow, I do have a fair bit of borrowing snails but would like inverts specifically for the top 1/4" of so. So I may look into cucumbers (which ones are good?) and may up my borrowing snail population.

Many thanks to the posts so far......

 

[SushiGirl]

Fighting conch or tiger tail cucumber.

 

[jlaudiofreak]

sand siffting stars are great

 

[wdt2000]

So I may look into cucumbers (which ones are good?)

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