Sand Sifters

[eqbal9947]

Hello everyone!
Wondering what you guys think is the best sand sifter, something to clean sand and move it around.
My sand is getting visibly crusty.
My tank has only had fish in it for a week.
I also have a Yellow watchman goby, hes very small and doesnt do anything except hide

 

[laezur]

Commenting because I’m also looking for some good sand CuC

 

[ying yang]

My pistol shrimp and ywg ,the shrimp does an amazing job of keeping nearly half of a 80 gallon dt turned over and clean sand ^_^
Got 11 nassarious snails and they do excellent job and cool to see rising up from the sand and going under and when occasionally I get a hermit killing a snail,them nassarious snails are literally up out the sand and on that dead snail within seconds ,wicked sense off smell of death ha ha .

Sand sifting fish I never had but hear they can cover corals with sand so got that to bare in mind.

You can get sandsifting starfish but read unless very very mature reef tank then after several months they slowly starve to death,never had so no experience.

And got a strawberry conch which go around cleaning sand and bottom rocks with their big trunks and cool looking and go under sand now and then.

Cerith snails generally smaller and go under sand,can't flip themselves back up if go upside down,so if does happen you need flip them.

Good luck

 

[flashsmith]

One that doesn't jump out of your tank. Conchs and Nasarius snails are my go to.

 

[MoshJosh]

My nasarius snails seem to do a good job. Plus it’s cool to watch as they run around under the sand and all you can see is their little snorkel thing.

 

[wculver]

Hello everyone!
Wondering what you guys think is the best sand sifter, something to clean sand and move it around.
My sand is getting visibly crusty.
My tank has only had fish in it for a week.
I also have a Yellow watchman goby, hes very small and doesnt do anything except hide

Nasarius snails are good. I also have a couple sand sifting stars though they seem to prefer the front part of the tank where it's lit. They don't tend to hit the back.

 

[i cant think]

I have 4 nassarius in my 4’ tank along with 2 Halichoeres wrasses (6 in total but the others don’t sleep in the sand) that are always keeping my sand turned over. In my nano I have a blue star leopard temporarily, 2 nassarius snails, a strawberry conch and a hectors goby that help clean the sand.

Hectors gobies don’t throw sand all over my coral and actually doesn’t carry sand above the rocks and instead just spits it out onto the coral on the sand bed.

 

[MoreReef]

Nassarius Snails and sand tiger conches

 

[Matrig]

My Allen’s Sandsifter is a workhorse. All he does is sift sand. He can be a pain picking it up and dumping it over my corrals though.

He‘s also started burrowing under my Lobos on the substrate. So to stop him I sit them on mesh I’ve buried under them.