What cleans sand better??

Im just about to go to the fish store to get some thing to clean my sand. i want some thing that looks cool to. what should i get that cleans and looks the best?????




BTW: my tank is a 24g With 1X150w MH

 

Get a small conch...they are cool to watch and really stir the sand bed nicely...once it grows up u may need to trade it in for a small one again, but they are really awesome to watch...i call mine Snuf (snufolopocus) cuz of the looong trunk they have (mine is pretty big but my tank is 125G)..and the bonus is they wont eat any of the "Creatures" in ur sand bed, just the algae and deterius stuff

 

how old is your tank max? alot need an established substrate to exist healthily. or they could end up starving. and what did you want them to clean up or eat?

 

in another thread he said he has had clowns for about a year, so thats what i was basing my suggestion on ;D

 

well i just got a tank for Christmas and i had two b4 it and i didnt want three(too much work) so i took the water and rocks out of the old one and i got new sand bcuz i didnt like the black sand. wat im trying to get rid of is this green hairy stuff that grows all over my sand and rock.

 

and the clowns are in the other tank

 

i didnt see that one kevin , or i just plain forgot. the memory is shot here. if thats the case, the conch is good, a sand sifting star or an urchin would be cool too.

 

sounds like green cyano to me...nothing will eat it...only way to get rid of it, is to get rid of the source (nitrates)...what are ur params...ur tank may be cycling again...i'd do a water change if nitrites and ammonia are at 0...that will probably kill the cyano (which is a bacteria not an algae)

 

only problem with the stars is that they will eat EVERYTHING including the littls "bugs" in the sand..i try to stay away from the sand sifters cuz in a 29g it would mow his sandbed back to dead in no time

 

will that get the hairy stuff???