Best invert for sandbed cleanup

C.Coral should be removed .. to large

 

+1 on the too large, I see no good advantage to using crushed coral for a reef tank, it would allow use of an undergravel filter but I dont believe that is needed, my sand got all crappy for the first couple weeks of the cycle and now its clean white again and looks great, hermits or snails might pick at it a little but nothing like a sand sifting goby will be able to sift that, if its brown diatoms it may go away once it consumes all the stuff it feeds on, like while cycling

 

So live sand is the best way to go eh? Is there any documentation that can help with adding live sand to an established system? If I add LS I don't want to mess with the mojo my system currently has. Thanks.

 

Im sure some of the more knowledgable members can tell you exactly how its done, my sandbed is about 2 inches deep

 

sweetriden....I had the same problem....I got some Nassarius snails....and they clean up good, when I had an anemone I dropped a silver head by accident and couldn't get it out, no worries...the Nassarius snails went to work, I have about 10 of them, anyway, in a matter of minutes, there was no flesh in that head, they love dead stuff and crap.......Another thing, if you get a sand sifting goby (you said yours died), make sure you get yourself a turkey baster so you can shoot food his way before the others eat it, most sand sifting gobies die of starvation....use Garlic Guard by seachem to get him to eat, mix with the food.....oh...and make sure you use eggcrate to keep him from jumping out...my first did...potato chip.

 

yeah, I have a hood(stock nano-cube 12) and I'm not gonna get another sand sifter, thought about it today, but got a small bicolor-blenny instead, cool fish, lots of personality, also got 4 small nassarius snail, I put a few flakes in for my clowns and they came out in a hurry and found any flake that hit the sand and it was gone, they are awesome, very fast too

 

sweetriden they have a cupl cucumbers at THAT FISH PLACE but u might wanna call or sumthing first they might have sold them..............the ones i saw were pink really cool and they were small too

 

cucumbers can get fraked out and excrete some of there organs though which can poisen a tank, especially something small like my nano, I did see them though, I was a little ticked though that they didnt have the peppermint shrimp or sally litefoot i wanted to get, also the selection of gobies wasnt very good(which is why I got a bicolor blenny instead)glad I got it though, much more active then most gobies, some places say they may pick on certain inverts so hopefully it leave the shrimp Im gonna get alone, its so much more peacefull then the bicolor pseudo that it replaced though so I'm happy, hopefully the BTA I got does well

 

Hermits, Hermits and more Hermits...can't have too many. Will keep sand rock sparkling clean. ;D

 

yeah I got 4 more blue leg hgermits, so I have 6 now, all small though, then my large electric blue, 3 atreas, 4 nassarius, the blenny is eating algae too, just hope the anemone picks a spot soon, it hasnt moved alot, maybe a few inches from where i put it, since last night, both clowns are in it now even though its not open, one went in this morning and the other followed in about 5 minutes, so they hosted in about 12 hours...