Sand sifting Starfish

[Nigel35]

Thinking about adding a sand sifting starfish to get the sand bed cleaned up after a gold head goby disaster lol. Only prob is that the sand bed is quite a small area for it to cruise around... Would it be conservative to go with some nassarius or a conch snail instead of the star?

 

[Conovan]

I considered the stars myself but most of the sand sifting stars get pretty big. So I have about a dozen nassarius. Its fun to watch them pop-up at feeding time to grab any scraps that hit the sand.

 

[xxkenny90xx]

Go with the nassarius snails for sure

 

[Nigel35]

Ended up getting one larger strawberry nassarius and a tiger conch!

 

[Anthrax15]

Unless your tank is quite large and your sand bed is mature, it will most likely starve to death. They don't fair well in most tanks. Go with Nassarius Snails/Conch.