• Folks, if you've recently upgraded or renewed your annual club membership but it's still not active, please reach out to the BOD or a moderator. The PayPal system has a slight bug which it doesn't allow it to activate the account on it's own.

RIP Diamond Goby

H

horseplay

NJRC Member
It jumped for the one day the cover was not on. Love the fish now in the hunt for a new one or something similar. It kept the sandbed clean. The leopard wrasse and cleaner wrasse used to follow it around as it sifted sand for pods.
 
mwil79

mwil79

NJRC Member
Sorry for your loss, literally EXACT same thing happened to me with a saddleback clown... 10-12 hours I left the top off and he jumps :(
 
Salted

Salted

NJRC Member
Ironic how fish we get to keep the sand bed clean are ones we have to worry will jump out of the tank.
 
mwil79

mwil79

NJRC Member
Salted said:
Ironic how fish we get to keep the sand bed clean are ones we have to worry will jump out of the tank.
Click to expand...

You know it's very weird.. but I have a blue spot watchman goby who is paired with a pistol shrimp. He NEVER leaves the sandbed ever. I had a big alk swing and lost the pistol shrimp... the next week the Goby was ALL over the tank including at the surface. I replaced the Pistol Shrimp and once they paired he hasn't moved off the sand again. It's amazing how their behavior changes in a symbiotic relationship.
 
H

horseplay

NJRC Member
Yeah would definitely want a sand sifter. Not all diamond gobies will survive though. I had one before and it didn't last. I have seem them in Petco from time to time ...
 
DYIguy

DYIguy

NJRC Member
If you want a REAL sand sifter, get a Banded Sleeper goby- cleans my whole 75g- just is a tad messy lol
 
Salted

Salted

NJRC Member
DYIguy said:
If you want a REAL sand sifter, get a Banded Sleeper goby- cleans my whole 75g- just is a tad messy lol
Click to expand...
My first one was a machine. Very hard worker and a big disappointment when it died. Replaced it right away with another that had nowhere near the same work ethic. So ymmv. But generally, diamonds, banded sleepers & gold head sleepers are the top 3 sand sifters.
 
H

horseplay

NJRC Member
Does the banded goby stay mostly on the bottom? Interesting fish. I used to see them all in the time back in the day at Tropiquarium. They also get quite large right?
 
DYIguy

DYIguy

NJRC Member
horseplay said:
Does the banded goby stay mostly on the bottom? Interesting fish. I used to see them all in the time back in the day at Tropiquarium. They also get quite large right?
Click to expand...
When I first got the Banded Goby it spent days cleaning out the space under a rock in the middle of the tank, only to get evicted by the Tomini lol. it is not a bottom dweller, eats anything I feed, cleans all the sand and picks at rocks, but is all over the tank- not a 'pretty' fish, but definitely grows on you
 
DYIguy

DYIguy

NJRC Member
Funny, I made a comment on FB about Saltybottom and someone commented about having been to the store and how great it was, small but great
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top