which sand sifters goby

[bcjm]

I am looking for a pair of sand sifter goby, Two Spot and Rainford are my choice but I head they are hard to keep. Does anyone here keep them successfully? I have a 150G tank with a 2-3" sand bed.

[lanman]

I am looking for a pair of sand sifter goby, Two Spot and Rainford are my choice but I head they are hard to keep. Does anyone here keep them successfully? I have a 150G tank with a 2-3" sand bed.

 

Danger! Danger!

 

Gold-headed sleeper goby:

 

 

bob

[Brian Ward]

I am looking for a pair of sand sifter goby, Two Spot and Rainford are my choice but I head they are hard to keep. Does anyone here keep them successfully? I have a 150G tank with a 2-3" sand bed.

 

I don't think the Rainford's is a sand-sifter. Aquarium One has them all the time, but I have also heard they are hard to keep. And with a 150, you'll never see a Rainford's again. They're only a couple inches. For sand sifting, I definitely recommend a diamond goby. The one I had in my nano didn't really dig a hole, just swam around and sifted through the top layer of sane. But they jump. They jump a lot. I lost the last 2 I tried to jumping. So either have a closed top or put up some eggcrate around the tank to keep it from jumping out. Even the eggcrate isn't foolproof. I had one jump through the eggcrate top on my QT.

[Sugar Magnolia]

My yellow watchman was a big sifter...all over the corals on the sand bed.

[varora]

orange diamond gobys are very interesting/entertaining, get the smallest one you can find, those things are the best sand sifters I have observed, both of mine have been great about sifting over the sand and not over the rocks, our current one is very friendly(the other was flighty) and hang out outside of his burrow most of the time

[zygote2k]

Good ol' Engineer Goby in my tank. Cheap, efficient, hardy, and a great personality. It also swims backwards. What more could you ask for?

[bcjm]

Got a pair gold head sleepers two days ago. They are very cute but they make the tank cloudy and carry the sand all over my corals. I guess there is nothing perfect in this world.