Algea sandbed

FishDaddy09 · Mar 1, 2024

Tank is 3 months old, the sand is covered in this algae, I have 2 clowns, yellow tail damsel, 2 nassarius snails, two turbo snails and a hermit crab and they can’t seem to keep up do I need more snails? Or trust the process and let it do it’s thing,

shakacuz · Mar 1, 2024

diatoms or potentially the start of dinos?

buy some copepods/phytoplankton and increase your clean up crew(get more hermit crabs or snails like nerite snails, ninja star astrea snails, and astrea snails)

VintageReefer · Mar 1, 2024

It’s a normal phase. In time it will correct itself. You could get a good sand stirring creature like a fighting conch and it would help keep the sand clear

Do not get a sand starfish. Just don’t.

Luisn17 · Mar 28, 2024

VintageReefer said:
It’s a normal phase. In time it will correct itself. You could get a good sand stirring creature like a fighting conch and it would help keep the sand clear

Do not get a sand starfish. Just don’t.

Hey,

Wondering why not? Too young of a tank or a sand shifting starfish it won’t help?

VintageReefer · Mar 28, 2024

Even in established larger tanks. Sand starfish die miserable deaths and suffer. They eat all the food in the sand, then their body starts to eat itself. Because they hide under the sand, the owner doesn’t realize this is happening. Then one day you see the starfish out, and it looks like something are and chewed on it’s arms. It wasn’t attacked, it’s body is literally eating itself or wasting away due to starvation.

WHAT happened to my starfish?

I haven’t seen my sand sifting star for a month and thought it had died (I have had it for over a year by now). Today I found this, it is apparently still alive but has all of its arms ripped off. How did this happen? The only culprits I can think of are blue throat trigger, copperband, and...

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Something killed my sand sifting starfish

Anyone have any idea what would kill a sand sifting starfish? It has been in the tank for a while. My husband found parts of the arms. We added a few blue leg hermit crabs and a clown tang.

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