Diamond Goby

Legal Reefer · Nov 19, 2017

Awesome addition to my clean up crew. He's cleaning my sand until it looks new, cleaning algae off the rocks, even cleaning the back glass. I believe he's eating frozen mysis and live pods I've added to my tank also.

Palyzoa · Nov 20, 2017

Love these guys! I had one in my old system and want to get another, one day. Hard workers!

BlueCursor · Nov 20, 2017

Mine keeps the sand sparkling. For the first 6 months I had slightly cloudy water. After while my substrate cleaned up and I have clear water again. He keeps things nice and aerated. Love it!

I also have a mandarin. He is nice and fat and doesn't seem to be impacted by pod competition from the goby.

MIReefer78 · Nov 20, 2017

I hope you have a top! They like to jump. They first one I had jumped out twice! The second time he did it I didn’t catch it and found him a couple days later on the floor. I just put another one in my tank and he jumped out as well. Luckily I was there and got him back into the tank. I now have a lid!

XNavyDiver · Nov 20, 2017

MIReefer78 said:
I hope you have a top! They like to jump. They first one I had jumped out twice! The second time he did it I didn’t catch it and found him a couple days later on the floor. I just put another one in my tank and he jumped out as well. Luckily I was there and got him back into the tank. I now have a lid!

Weird. Sorry about your first one. Mine has never left the sand bed as far as my knowledge.

MIReefer78 · Nov 20, 2017

XNavyDiver said:
Weird. Sorry about your first one. Mine has never left the sand bed as far as my knowledge.

Hopefully it stays that way for you! Just keep an eye out. My new one likes to get a little crazy in the middle of the night. I hear him splashing around (jumping) once in a while

XNavyDiver · Nov 20, 2017

MIReefer78 said:
Hopefully it stays that way for you! Just keep an eye out. My new one likes to get a little crazy in the middle of the night. I hear him splashing around (jumping) once in a while

I guess every one has their own little personality quirks. Mine goes to his escavated cave structure just before lights out and doesn't come out until about an hour after lights on.

Legal Reefer · Nov 21, 2017

The goby was a replacement for a carpet surfing fire fish. I had the fire fish for a month with no jumping problems. Live and learn, I just hate that it was at the poor fishes expense. I made a mesh top before getting the goby.