star fish

Get a cucumber or nassarius snails...sand sifting starfish eat the good stuff from your sand as well as the bad.
 
No special attention needed. They are a great addition to a cleanup crew...just make sure they are the Atlantic sand sifting type...not the filter feeder. GL, Marcye
 
I have an atlantic cucumber and a queen conch - my sand is looking great. I actually just added the conch a week ago and it seems that I can see a difference in the sand already. And these things eat the stuff out of the sand that I want eaten, without eating all of the little bugs and worms that are good for the tank. Give them a try.
 
"...Larger species of stars have generally poor success rates in our tanks. Stars such as the chocolate chip star are simply too predatory to maintain, as are the so-called sand-sifting stars. Sold to "sift sand," these latter species will devastate a live sand bed in short order. About the only larger stars that are successfully kept are species of Linckia..."
Dr. Ron Shimek, Reefkeeping Magazine
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7087149#post7087149 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by rdmpe
Mr. Hankey is doing great. And so is the Conch, which we have named Fritter.
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LOL...
I agree with Marcye..sandsifting stars and also large sandsifting gobies such as sleepers will eat all of the beneficial infauna from your sandbed...then they slowly die of starvation.:(
 
When the cucumber poops out clean sand, is it in the, well, poop shape, or does it break itself up to the natural sand look?
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7091026#post7091026 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by bkwudzjeep
When the cucumber poops out clean sand, is it in the, well, poop shape, or does it break itself up to the natural sand look?
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At first it does..til the flow flattens it back out.:p
 
Randy, you need to resurrect Mr. Hankey and his little pile. That was truly a, um, very original photo...lol.
 
I have several...yellow, brown and black. I have one in each of my nanos. I think all tanks with sand beds should have at least one of these to keep the sand clean. GL:) Marcye
 
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