sand dweller

im looking for a cool sand dweller for a small tank any ideas?

 

Rainford's Goby.

Are you looking for something that lives in the sand or just a bottom dweller?

 

something that lives in the sand.i saw some kind of small mantis that digs its white about an inch inch n a half lfs guy sed he wont bother anything.its about 5 inch dsb

 

Don't know about the mantis, think it would kill your snails and stuff. you could try a pistol shrimp goby pair. I think some pistols can also be a threat to snails and crabs though.

 

from what the guy at the lfs said they only pose a threat to the smallest thinks copepods amphipods ect. the thing looked like it had claws though like a mini white lobster.

 

What size tank?
Other tank-mates?

 

it is a 7 gal eclipse tank with a 4-5 in dsb. im either going to put a 10 gallon sump in or hook it into my 55 gallon reef or both lol

tank mates will be snails hermits and a pearly jawfish and a fire shrimp. i know its pretty heavy bio load thats why im thinkn of putting it with the 55 gall reef

 

7 gallons really limits what you can even fit. I'm more worried about over-crowding than your bio load. A small goby would be all I would reccoment. Maybe something like a clown goby (Gobiodon genus) a hectors goby (Amblygobius genus), a neon goby (Elacatinus oceanops) a wheelers watchman goby (Amblyeleotris wheeleri) or a yellow watchman goby (Cryptocentrus cinctus). The last two would be more sand dwellers.

 

im lookn for something that lives in the sand more so then 1 that lives on the sand

 

what about some garden eels