My New Fish

[fletch]

Just got a new member to my tank today a Diamond Goby! It didn't take him long to decide were to make his home he couldn't have been in the tank for more than a minute and the sand was flying LOL he made himself a home under one of my rocks and then he went rite to work sifting the sand in front of his new home, Just like he was doing some landscaping and he looked like he was watching me the whole time I was watching him LOL ............. John

[JohnO]

John,

Excellent choice :-) I had 2 similar gobies some time back. I don't know what your sand bed is like, but mine had a bit of brown algae at the time. Over night it was spotless :-)

John

[fletch]

Thank You John I also have some brown algae on my sand and this guy is wasting no time getting his new neighborhood cleaned up ....... John

[JohnO]

John

I found that mine made a bit of a mess to start with, they would take a mouth full of sand and then drop it from a great height all over the rock work. That would of course release a bit of fine particulate matter into the water column which was eventually filtered out. The strange thing was, after about 2 months, they stopped doing it :-) No idea why, but that's what happened. Anyway, just make sure that some food gets down to the sand level before your other fish eat it or they may have difficulty. I used a turkey baster (occassionally only) to make sure they got a good feed.

Cheers

John

[fletch]

Yah he had my water pretty cloudy for a while but it is clearing up now.
Thanks for the tip with the turkey baster John What did you find that liked to eat best? I have some frozen brine shrimp, do you think that would be good? .... John

[JohnO]

You'll be surprised at how the cloudiness wont happen in the future :-)

I fed my fish mainly just on flake food. Occasionally just a whole prawn or some nori. Never really "target" fed any of them.

John

[fletch]

Well he is back at his landscaping again today and getting my water all fogged up again . But he is doing a nice job on his home, The only thing is I don't think he is getting along with one of his neighbors the lawnmower blenny, they seem to be having a little territory issue. Well maybe they can work things out! And the blenny won't be like one of my neighbors LOL I guess we all have them LOL............... John

[Craig Manoukian]

Sand sifting Blennies and Gobies ca definitely have territorial issues. 75 gallons is a little cramped for those neighbors, eh?

[fletch]

Well hopefully they will work out there issues They seem to be giving each-other a little more room ............. John

[Craig Manoukian]

Sounds good!