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View Poll Results: How do you keep your sand clean? | |
Snails
|     | 21 | 72.41% | |
Worms
|    | 9 | 31.03% | |
Crabs
|    | 18 | 62.07% | |
Starfish
|    | 10 | 34.48% | |
Siphon
|    | 11 | 37.93% | |
I don't have sand.
|    | 2 | 6.90% | |
Fish
| | 6 | 20.69% | | Reef Links |  | 
05-12-2005, 09:40 AM
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| | Feather Duster
Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Homestead, Florida Age: 44
Posts: 248
Karma: 18
 
|  Re: How do you keep your sand clean?
I have 2 Brittle stars that are supposed to be sand sifters, but they are more the lazy rock dweller type but are good scavengers.
I have 2 big electric blue leg crabs, but they just eat the algae off the rock and walk over my corals.
I have a sally lightfoot crab that I see in the sand from time to time but he likes the rocks better.
I have a emerald crab that drags himself through the sand, but nothing sticks to him.
I have a Tiger Gobi that sifts through the sand, but he is just one fish in a vast sand bed.
In the end, I have a hand attached to my arm that once a month I move through the sand and stir up the bottom and let my mechanical filter substrate catch it, and I clean it twice a day for 3 days.
-Chris _________ 90g AGmegaflow, 30g Sump/refug, mag18 recirc, 2 mag 5's in tank JBJ235Watt PC Turboflotor1000 150LR 100LS 17corals Clown,Lawnmower Blenny, Chromis, Anthia, 3 emerald, 1 electric blueleg,3 scarlet crabs.  &&&&Another Great SIG By NAUTILUS | 
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05-12-2005, 09:52 AM
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| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: St. Paul/Woodbury, Minnesota Age: 50
Posts: 1,181
|  Re: How do you keep your sand clean?
Lots of Nassarith snails. _________ 75g reef with Nova Extreme 8 bulb HO T-5 lighting, refuge, Remora skimmer, DSB, Seio powerheads, Acro's, LPS corals, assorted zoo's & mushrooms, Yellow Tang, Maroon Clown, Blue Cleaner Goby , Cleaner, Fire and Sexy Shrimp, Coco Worm, T.Crocea Clam, Derasa Clam
120g FOWLR, 260w Orbit power compact lights, Remora Pro skimmer, 30g DIY Sump/Refuge, DSB,Seio Power heads, Powder Blue Tang, Purple Tang, Flag Fin Angel, False Eye Puffer, Copperbanded Butterfly and a Moorish Idol  | |
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05-12-2005, 06:17 PM
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| | Whip-Lash Squid
Join Date: May 2004 Location: PhillySuburbs, Pennsylvania Age: 42
Posts: 2,947
| Re: How do you keep your sand clean?
1 - Brittle Star (if you look in at night , he is allllll over the sand)
2 - Fighting Conch - always picking off the sand
3 - Asst Stombus, Turbos, Stomatella snails
4 - couple scarlet hermit crabs.....
5 - Chevron Tang - eats diatoms...picks up a mouthful of sand and spits it out clean! 
My sand stays fairly clean except a center area of low flow, which gets siphoned. _________  I Love My Sig By John Hawkins!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date Started 9/04 58 gallon Oceanic Tank, 20 gal DIY sump/fuge w/ Kent Marine Auto top-off, Air Water Ice RO/DI, 10,000 K 175 W MH, 2 VHO 03's 96W each, AquaC EV 120 Skimmer
80 lbs LR, DSB in FUGE, 1 - 2 " LS in tank
Black Brittle Star, Chevron Tang, Crocea Clam, red & green Lobophyllia, Frogspawn, Porites Frag, Caulastrea Frag, Green Ricordia, Asst. Zoas, hermits, astreas, stomatellas, fighting conch  | |
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05-12-2005, 06:47 PM
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| | 3reef Moderator
Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Melbourne, VIC,Victoria
Posts: 2,261
| Re: How do you keep your sand clean?
How about Nuthin' 
John
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Life's too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so...Love the people who treat you right. Pray for the ones who don't. Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it! | |
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05-12-2005, 08:08 PM
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| | Bristle Worm
Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: ,
Posts: 132
Karma: 19
| Re: How do you keep your sand clean?
The birds do a pretty good job of it on the side of the house, hehe
Mike | |
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05-12-2005, 11:31 PM
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| | Feather Duster
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Overland Park, Kansas
Posts: 202
Karma: 31
| Re: How do you keep your sand clean?
Don't forget the 'cukes!! I have a couple of cucumbers that do more to keep my sand clean than all the snails and hermits combined! _________ -Mickey 175g Bowfront - 75g Refugium - 100g Sump - 3 Phoenix 14k 250W MH - AquaC EV240 Skimmer - 240lbs Haitian Live Rock - 4" DSB - Red Velvet Fairy Wrasse - Azure Damsel - Banggia Cardinal - Firefish Goby - Blackcap Basslet - Purple Tang - Powder Brown Tang - Regal Tang - Green Manderin - 2 Skunk Cleaner Shrimp - 2 Peppermint Shrimp - 2 Emerald Crabs - Rose BTA - Orange Linkia - Tuxedo Urchin - Spiney Urchin (hitchhiker) | |
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05-13-2005, 04:20 AM
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| | Whip-Lash Squid
Join Date: May 2004 Location: PhillySuburbs, Pennsylvania Age: 42
Posts: 2,947
| Re: How do you keep your sand clean?
What kind of Cuke do you have? I have been wanting one, but have not had the time to do the research yet.....  | |
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05-13-2005, 05:58 AM
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| | Aiptasia Anemone
Join Date: May 2004 Location: San Diego, CA,California Age: 53
Posts: 577
Karma: 86
|  Re: How do you keep your sand clean?
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Originally Posted by Chris Jones I have 2 big electric blue leg crabs, but they just eat the algae off the rock and walk over my corals.
-Chris | And knock over my corals, and pick fights with my other hermits, and eat everything in sight, and get so big that I have to buy additional shells for them every couple of months, and break all my chinaware, and now live in my refugium getting even bigger!!! _________  80 gal plywood/glass reef tank, AquaC Urchin Pro w/Mag 3, 38gal Sump/refugium w/Mag9.5, 2 Maxi Jet 1200, 2-200 watt Hagen Heaters, 100lbs CaribSea Aragonite, 80lbs handmade Aragocrete rock, 2-110W 48" VHO Actinic Blue, 2-110W 48" VHO 50/50, RO/DI, DIY coiled denitrator, Bi-color Blenny, Damsel, Yellow Tang, red/green lobophyllia, zooanthid frag, cabbage coral, asst. mushrooms, toadstool leather, frogspawn | |
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