Sand Stirrer Debate

[Lorna]

Okay I have been reading and getting conflicting information so I will do a quick survey of the forums and try to gain some consensus on the following:

I have about a 5-6 inch dsb that was contructed with carib-sea arragonite with 2 inches of aragg-live sand on top..... With the amount of live rock (125 lbs) and about 60-100 various snails made up of nerites, ceriths, and nassarius snails.......I have no brittle stars or cucumbers or sand sifting starfish. Are these necessary to the health of the dsb???? I have read that sand sifting stars can and will kill a sand bed, then I was told that they are a necessary part of a dsb to ensure that pockets of anerobic material don't form........

Okay what is the consensus.....sand sifting star or not........

thanks as always.....

 

[dbacksrat]

Personally, I'd like to go barebottomed--less worry of a sandbed crashing down the road

 

[FroggyFox]

from what I've read the nassarius snails will be fine for mixing up your sand...

 

[aresgod]

you could put a sand sifting star in there....it should be fine.