Clean Sand Bed - Possible?

[HuBu]

from most of the pics you guys have posted, all of your SB are clean and white. how are you guys keeping it clean?

[Dave ESPI]

Mine are mostly cobered with coraline algae chunks, but crews and lots of worms keep my few sand bed tanks clean.

 

Occasionaly siphoning near the surface of the sand durring a W/C helps too.

 

Good cross current water flow helps a lot.

[HuBu]

thing is that i hate hermits, i had hermits before, and they killed most of my snails. i might consider adding a brittle star to help. by worms, do you mean those spaghetti worms?

[Dave ESPI]

There are thousands of annelid species, but spags are good yes. Have you tried cerith and nasscarus snails or Orange foots? there are a LOT of good snails that clean up. I generaly keep my crab load small or get "Pinhead"(tiny) hermits.

[HuBu]

yeah now i have one blue leg hermit in there, i m a nice guy, hence why i havent tossed his a$$ out yet. ill probably get some more mexicans, heard they are good against cyano. dont know if its any true.

[Trag]

Hermit Crabs are like wild cards...never know what your gonna get

Inconsistent factors produce inconsistent results

 

Go with worms fo shoo- Spaghetti Worms, Bristle Worms

Mini brittle stars are kewl, maybe they will spawn ?

Fighting Conch if tank is big enough, if not few nassarius snails

Theres tons of choices...

[logicalreef]

I've been very impressed with queen conchs...even more so than the fighting conchs. FWIW.

 

Peace, Bryan

[Chromis]

My queen conch is great ... just cleans the sand all day.

 

Spag worms, bristle worms, and tiny brittle stars help out as well in my tank.