A good item to start with are Nassarius snails. They will not eat the
algea but they will stir up the sand bed, and will eat the excess food
that you want the hermites to eat. To actually eat the algea a fighting
conch is a pretty good creature to have.

The best way to stir up the sand is lots and lots of critters in the
sand, ie worms pods etc. The more of them you have the more your sand
bed is stirred up.

Kim Gross
http://www.jensalt.com



Hermits are oportunistic scavangers. Meaning they will eat what ever is
easiest
for them to get ahold of. Sand bed critters are usually pretty easy. No
hermits
in my tanks!


So does anyone have any advice on what will stir up a DSB just enough,
but not too much?

I'm getting some algae on the surface of the sand. Water changes are
in progress to help with this. But, is there anything that will eat
algae from the surface of the sand?

I was going to ask about scarlet legged hermits- I already have a
couple- but now I'm not so sure...



Thanks!