conch

I bought a small fighting conch for my micro-reef tank (20 gal). I do
not think this is big enough for the guy. He burrowed in immediately,
and did not reappear for a month, when he surfaced and died. I was
sad. He literally was on his back with his foot in the air. I read
somewhere each one needs about 2' x 2' of sand to get enough to eat.
Now my open-brain coral is looking sickly. Is it possible for a conch
to damage live sand?

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|I bought a small fighting conch for my micro-reef tank (20 gal). I
do
| not think this is big enough for the guy. He burrowed in
immediately,
| and did not reappear for a month, when he surfaced and died. I was
| sad. He literally was on his back with his foot in the air. I read
| somewhere each one needs about 2' x 2' of sand to get enough to
eat.
| Now my open-brain coral is looking sickly. Is it possible for a
conch
| to damage live sand?

Have you checked water parameters? Perhaps the conch corpse caused an
ammonia spike before you removed it.