Sifters of sand

what and how many sandsifters should be in a 125 gallon with 3 inch sandbed.

 

Many people make the mistake of placing a few of them, only to find them dead in a couple of weeks. I have a 90g and I only have one Sand Shifting Starfish.


Luna

 

Luna how much sand do you have in the 90 and that is your ONLY sandsifter?

 

I have about a 2" sand bed. Yes, I only have one Sand Shifting Starfish. My Eng. Goby helps a little moving the sand around too.


Luna

 

Thankz Luna I have two sandsifting stars and Im working on my third set of Bullet Gobies I prefer the gobies over the stars but can't seem to keep the bullets more than a couple months.

 

Your gobies might be starving. I had a pair of Gold Headed Sleeper Gobys in my 65 and they only made it a month. My best guess is that they starved they always hid during feeding, well they just ALWAYS hid and i think they werent gettin enough food.

 

Did you do some research on the Bullet Gobies before getting them? Luna

 

im like luna,, 90 gal and 1 sand sifting star.

 

Bullet Goby
[SIZE=-2]Amblygobius semicinctus
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Description;
Also called the the Butterfly or Tailspot Reef Goby, the Bullet Goby can actually be quite a hard worker and will keep the sand well sifted and clean. It takes large mouthfuls of sand and sifts through it , eating small invertebrates and expelling the cleaned sand out of its gills. A pair is good insurance to keep a 100 gallon tank completely free of algae on the substrate.
[/SIZE][SIZE=-2]Minimum Tank Size:[/SIZE][SIZE=-2] 20 gallon
[/SIZE][SIZE=-2]Feeding and diet: [/SIZE][SIZE=-2]Offer a varied diet of carnivore preparations including mysis shrimp and brine shrimp.
[/SIZE][SIZE=-2]Level of Care: [/SIZE][SIZE=-2]Easy
[/SIZE][SIZE=-2]Reef Compatibility[/SIZE][SIZE=-2]:Very good reef or community fish.[/SIZE]




Luna

 

For my 125, i'm looking at getting a tiger tail cucumber whenever I get around to ordering from live aquaria.

~Will..