Detritus mayhem

I have an immense amount of detritus on my sand and it's driving me insane. At first I thought it was algae (i don't know where else to put this post) but it looks nothing like it. It pretty much looks like crap...literally!! Non of my hermits will go at it and my conch seems to be sucking at the sand, but i see no difference.

Now, I've heard some things about sand sifting gobies, could one of them help? my sand bed is about 1.5"-2", What could I do to clean this up!?


Adem

 

you can definitely use a goby, havent had an issue like that where there is a ton of detritus on the sand bed, sounds to me like you need more flow in the bottom of your tank to keep it stirred up in the water column to get it into the filtration

If your looking at gobies do some research on them to see which one will fit your tank the best I use dragon gobies (aka sleeper and brown barred goby) for all my tanks, their really hardy and aren't known as jumpers. I've tried diamond gobies twice and both times they've jumped within the first 24 hours

 

good idea, I am going to be adding more flow soon...

as for the gobies, what about watchman gobies?

 

black cucumber

 

I kinda want to stay away from the possibility of destroying my tank with a cuke going non compos mentis....(insane)

 

My scooter Blenny sifts sand like crazy..as well as my sand sifting star fish....after I cycled the 55 gal. completely, they seem to be keeping the sand bed in great shape.
Not to mention lots of hermits and snails...
Good luck,
LG

 

My conches do a fantastic job with my sand.. my yellow watchman goby won't touch the sand, he's got a phobia

 

hmm, maybe if i increase my arsenal of conchs to 2-3 and add more flow...

I've always wanted a goby, It was going to be my next fish to replace my six-line...now to decide which KIND of goby

 

Yeah, it's not to say that the yellow watchmans dont like the sand. The one at the university enjoys being half-covered in sand at all times I have 4 conches right now in my 40 gallon and they seem to be doing great.

 

Gobies and Scooter Blennies and not eating the detritus on your sand. They eat what eats the detritus on your sand.

Scooters are looking for Copepods and Gobies are eating smaller worms and zootoplanktons that eat detritus. They will not directly eat the detritus. I would recommend a Conch for sure

J