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These cookies do not store any personal information. Non-necessary Non-necessary. With the bare bottom, I need to remove everything to clean the bottom glass due to the small size, which creates maneuverability issues for cleaning devices, that and the high mortality rate of snails in the display.
Bare bottom doesn't necessarily make it algae free or easier to clean. You just don't end up with a nutrient sink if it isn't being maintained and algae removal takes a different approach. Keep it, build a screen, and replace the goby; get a bunch of sand sifting snails like ceriths I prefer dwarf cerith and nassaraus and maybe some micro brittle stars; thin out the sand bed or remove it altogether.
So I have a question then from a different perspective. I am in the planning stages right now on a 3. I want a sand bottom and was not planning on any fish at all.
In terms of things that move around I was planning on three sexy shrimp. I want the sand for aesthetic reasons. I am not opposed to snails or something like that but I was trying to avoid too many critters that arent considered coral. Just take care of it. Vacuum it, stir it up a bit at a time, baste into it before a water change, etc. And don't go very deep.
Working the entire sand bed isn't an issue if you are doing it every week or two, but it can be a pain. Those packs are way too big for my tank anyway. I've had sand in my last two tanks. I'm planning another build now and I'm going bare bottom. Not that I didn't like the look of sand on the contrary, I did..
I'm going for minimalist, simple, and low maintenance this time around, and nixing the sand was part of that decision. Use a turkey baster, blow water into the sand to disperse it and let detritus escape into the water column. Mechanical filtration or siphoning or, let's be honest, corals and other critters will make short work of it. For the gobies, a 3g is likely too small for most sand sifters so not surprised they jumped. You can build a screen top for probably less than one of those fish cost If you're going to keep anything that can move fast fish or shrimp you should seriously consider getting a screen top made or put one together yourself.
Any spooked animal will usually resort to a "run away" reaction and they can move too quickly for such a small tank and shoot themselves right out of the water. Every 6 months or whatever when the sand starts to look nasty just take everything out of the tank and put it in a bucket with the tank water. Then take the sand, rinse it thoroughly with FW, then put it back and add new water. Given the tiny size of the tank it should only take a few minutes really.
Fine grain sand tends to collect less detritus though it can still become a bit of a nutrient sink over time. If you're concerned about a cycle due to removing too much biological filtration you could remove half the sand a week before as part of a water change. Adding back clean, rinsed sand won't cause a cycle. If you use tap water to clean the sand that's what I do add some dechlorinator after rinsing and try to drain it as thoroughly as possible by lining a strainer with a paper towel.
This would allow you to use a gravel vac similar to what you would use in a FW tank with gravel. I know it sounds counterproductive to rip into these tanks but that's the beauty, and luck of working nanos. The insanity that large tank keepers face in dealing with sandbeds good and bad that they cant access for cleaning like we do is literal algae madness and sinked frustration documented in posts across the web. The oldest large tank sandbed I know is Paul B's at 40 yrs.
He runs a sandbed polar opposite of todays methods, and todays methods don't work very well after 3 yrs says el fabs tank. I just like to see things being done differently with them and I like my own DSB very much, its very clean.
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