last thursday i added a green clown goby to my tank.......he/she was hugging the rocks in the front of the tank for a few hrs, seemed to acclimate well....then, hid......i haven't seen him/her since.....
how long do i give for him/her to show up?.....or, do i assume, at this point, he didn't make it?
__________________ Wendy
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they are really hard to see, and being so small, they could be anywhere. look closely, even behind heaters. i hope he is still around. never forget possiblilty of mantis shrimp.
oh!...please don't say that.....i think he is gone.....i was moving some of the rock around for a pipe coral and he didn't come out....unless he is in the pvc below all the rock....also checked the overflow, no luck
__________________ Wendy
___________________________ " Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine."...Buddha
I had the same experience with my green clown goby. I just assumed he was underneath some rocks or maybe crushed with me moving stuff around and then one morning i see a shadow in my fuge... sure enough there he was in the return portion of my fuge... i'm sure that was one scary ride over the overflow and down the pipes...
I had the same experience with my green clown goby. I just assumed he was underneath some rocks or maybe crushed with me moving stuff around and then one morning i see a shadow in my fuge... sure enough there he was in the return portion of my fuge... i'm sure that was one scary ride over the overflow and down the pipes...
so don't give up just yet...
that swirly vortex of terror____of course it is!
just like the EAC dude!
thanks guys....i ahven't given up yet....there are a lot of hiding places in my tank
no shift in water parameters....but then, he is/was a pretty small fish in a pretty big tank
walrus, i explained what a mantis shrimp is to my hubby & i thought he was gunna die of a heartattak.....don't think he realized that you can get the bad along w/ the good....lol
__________________ Wendy
___________________________ " Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine."...Buddha
oh, i want to add this, because it is kinda important as an informative thing fo us newbies
i did not QT this little guy, so by not doing that, i really have no way of knowing what happened to him
he seemed fine after the acclimation and all of my other fish are fine....but, by not QTing, there really is no way for me to pinpoint what happened to him, if he is indeed gone......whether he was sick or something in the tank got him
if i woulda QTed, i would have been able to eliminate at least one possiblity....my bad
__________________ Wendy
___________________________ " Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine."...Buddha
im old school, dont worry about my comments about QTing!ive had to many careless losses in my time, the last one hit me so hard it reshaped my world! 45cm & still a baby! it does stuff to u when u loss fish of this magnitude with so much more potential!
i just added a green clown goby a few days ago also. sadly yesterday i actually seen a pesty mantis shrimp living in my tank grab him and dragged him into a cave in the rocks. that little punk, ive been trying to get him out for 4 months.
veriann, i didn't think you were off base, in the first place:-)
pham, i don't think it is a mantis or anything like that, i have a yellow clwn goby that has been in the tank for a couple of weeks now and he is fine....as are all the rest of my fish
__________________ Wendy
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ive had to many careless losses in my time, the last one hit me so hard it reshaped my world! 45cm & still a baby! it does stuff to u when u loss fish of this magnitude with so much more potential!