Quote Originally Posted by CD
Sherri - you might want to consider a Fighting Conch. We got one for our sandbed, and I'll have to say I am very impressed with their cleaning abilities. They stay on the SB (not on rocks or glass) or burrow into the SB, and keep it CLEAN! Within a week of adding it to the tank, there was a noticible difference. We have nassarius snails also, but with a larger tank, we would've had to buy either a massive amount more of the nassarius, a SSS (which I was worried about putting in the 210G after reading about their feeding needs) OR the conch...I'm glad we settled on the conch. ;)

W.
I agree with Wendy, fighting conches are cool, although you need about 3 square feet of open sandbed to sustain one long term. I'm planning on one for my 75.

As a side note nassarius snails don't do anything to clean the sand, they are strictly carnivores. They will eat any meaty foods that fall to the sand bed, so that is a useful function, but they do not ingest or clean sand or rocks.

B.