Sand mixer

[buttered loins]

Hi
Could any of you guys recommend an fish or invertebrate that can stiff or mix the top layer of my sand. That is reasonable hardly and is not a golden cheek sleeper goby.
THanks

[DeeSeven]

sand sifting star fish

[DoctaQ]

nassarius constantly burrow around but dont clean the sand for you really

my fighting conch is pretty good about cyano but doesnt do byropsis too well

[DoctaQ]

if you have a big tank a twinspot( signal) goby or a dragon goby

[greech]

Diamond goby FTW!

[OgreMkV]

Try dwarf Planaxis

[Amphiprion]

Planaxids don't actually eat anything in the sand, like cerithids, strombids, and the like, but they do shift it around and eat algae

[buttered loins]

Are the diamond goby or the dragon goby hard to keep, are they similiar to the sleeper gobies. Because I have had sleeper gobyies before and they have always died. This is always due to starvation. they didnt seem to accept the foods i offered them such as brine, mysis shrimp, flakes, pellets, pieces of prawn. the fish or whatever i get it isnt going into my main display its going into another tank which has a 4-6 inch sand bed, but the tank is only 150L (51cmLx51cmWx60cmH). and half is covered with plants. there isnt live rock in the tank besides one small one, just plants and sand and little water flow and lots of copepods and hair algea. Is this going to be a problem this tank is connected to my main tank though.

[buttered loins]

i thinking about getting a mated twinspot goby, because i believe they are relativly easy to keep and cheap. should they be ok in the tank? there is a bit of live rock in the tank now.

[Amphiprion]

Twinspot gobies are actually quite difficult to keep. The captivity record is dismal. Unless you want the fish just to have them, invertebrate sifters are a better idea.

[buttered loins]

i have read that it accepts mysis, brine and bloodworm and is not as hard to keep as sleeper gobies

[Amphiprion]

I have read and experienced quite the opposite. I've seen at least some success with sleeper gobies and very little with Signigobius. What sites and/or books suggest Signigobius over the sleeper gobies? Neither are easy or have great track records, but Signigobius is much more dismal.

[buttered loins]

I am not saying that sleeper gobies are harder to keep than twinspot. I just read that they accept most foods. My LFS said they should be fine because they will accept most foods and said i shouldnt have any problems with them. They are also going into a tank with no other fish in it so they wont have to rush to eat. it also has a good sand bed so that should help them in the begining. have they been kept successful before or are they impossible to keep.

[buttered loins]

To feed the twinspot cant you just let the food rest on the sand and they will sieve the sand and feed that way?

[Amphiprion]

To feed the twinspot cant you just let the food rest on the sand and they will sieve the sand and feed that way?

That is assuming that they'll even eat. I've always had more trouble getting them to eat than most of the sleeper goby species.