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What kind of sand sifters are these? Are they goby or wrasse? I had a coris wrasse that keep turning my prata and brains over for food. Sometime, the action went unnoticed, and several days later, you find yourself a dead prata that cost 10 times more than the price of the wrasse.

I'm glad I set a trap and removed it finally.

PITA on all these sand sifters....won't be adding anymore in the future.

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What kind of sand sifters are these? Are they goby or wrasse? I had a coris wrasse that keep turning my prata and brains over for food. Sometime, the action went unnoticed, and several days later, you find yourself a dead prata that cost 10 times more than the price of the wrasse.

I'm glad I set a trap and removed it finally.

PITA on all these sand sifters....won't be adding anymore in the future.

Round, flat, white sea urchin

Most likely purchse from Henry. I have at least 5 of this

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Best sand-sifters I had tried is the sand dollar..... cheap, does it's job and best thing is that it will not bombard sand all over the freaking place nor it will distrub any corals. The catch is that it may not work on bigger grains of sand like grade 3 and above.

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Thanks guys....mine are the diamond spotted gobies - they are too efficient. Saw a sand dollar at henry's....i think that they are the way to go.

Real reefs don't have glass bottoms....(...think about it)

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now I am wondering if the also eat up all the good bacteria in the sand? I have a 5 foot tank and these two medium-szied gobies - they move huge piles of sand daily, to a depth of two inches. Sand is really clean, but what about all the goody bacteria and such that lives in the sand? Will that have disappeared???

Real reefs don't have glass bottoms....(...think about it)

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So does anyone have an answer to my earlier question? If the sand sifters are far too efficient will they eat all the good bacteria in the sand too????

Real reefs don't have glass bottoms....(...think about it)

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