I want to add a sand sifting goby to my 92 gallon corner tank so that I keep the sand bed, especially the areas that are hard for me to reach, clean. I know a goby is no substitute for going in and actually vaccuming the sand bed with a water change but I figured it would still help. What is the best goby for this purpose? The fish already in this system include:
1x yellow tang
1x melanarus (could be joven's) wrasse
1x blue chromis
1x purple dottyback
1x coral beauty
2x ocelaris clown
Instead of a goby, I was also trying to figure out what CUC might be able to help me out. I was thinking nasarius snails. Only issue with this is that my tank has tons of hermits which I was told would go after the snails for the shells. Not only that, My wrasse hates CUC with a passion. Whenever I add hermits, I have to sneak them into the tank while he's not looking. Luckily their exoskeleton and shell seems to do a pretty good job of protecting them. I dont think this would be the case with the softer fleshy snails.
Another concern I had is that I am planning to re aquascape my tank. The sandbed under some of the rock work has not been vaccumed in a very long time, probably around 2 years. I have heard of people disturbing their undisturbed sand beds and releasing hydrogen sulfide into the tank and wiping everything out. I wasn't sure if this was only a cause for concern with DSB's though. Can my 2 in. sand bed also have the same dangerous potential? If so, is it just a bad idea all together to re aqua scape?
1x yellow tang
1x melanarus (could be joven's) wrasse
1x blue chromis
1x purple dottyback
1x coral beauty
2x ocelaris clown
Instead of a goby, I was also trying to figure out what CUC might be able to help me out. I was thinking nasarius snails. Only issue with this is that my tank has tons of hermits which I was told would go after the snails for the shells. Not only that, My wrasse hates CUC with a passion. Whenever I add hermits, I have to sneak them into the tank while he's not looking. Luckily their exoskeleton and shell seems to do a pretty good job of protecting them. I dont think this would be the case with the softer fleshy snails.
Another concern I had is that I am planning to re aquascape my tank. The sandbed under some of the rock work has not been vaccumed in a very long time, probably around 2 years. I have heard of people disturbing their undisturbed sand beds and releasing hydrogen sulfide into the tank and wiping everything out. I wasn't sure if this was only a cause for concern with DSB's though. Can my 2 in. sand bed also have the same dangerous potential? If so, is it just a bad idea all together to re aqua scape?
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