Diamond goby

[Nigel35]

I am looking to get a diamond goby to clean up my sand bed. Anybody have any good or bad reviews not usually listed? Are there better species of gobies to go with in a 45 gallon system? I have a trigger and it burrows like their is no tomorrow. Will most gobies do the same or is it a little more subtle?

 

[MichaelReefer]

As much as I love my Diamond Goby...shes a Pain in the butt. Tears my whole tank up lol. She's buried my coral, messed up my aquascape, all that.

 

[Nigel35]

+ on that my trigger is great but is like a steam shovel lol

 

[MichaelReefer]

+ on that my trigger is great but is like a steam shovel lol

Only reason I haven't gotten rid of her is my Fiance loves her. lol

 

[SuncrestReef]

I love my diamond goby, and my sand has never been so clean! You just need to be sure not to leave many corals on the sand bottom or they will get buried.

Here’s a video of my diamond goby building a new burrow. It wasn’t there yesterday, and the sand used to be level in that area.

 

[Nigel35]

Only corals I got that are on the bottom are a toadstool and some GSP. Which have been buried before lol

 

[Seabiscuit]

As much as I love my Diamond Goby...shes a Pain in the butt. Tears my whole tank up lol. She's buried my coral, messed up my aquascape, all that.

Ditto. I have two of them. My sand bed started out totally flat. They have dug massive caves under every single rock so much so that I wonder if the rocks will fall over. They bury my macroalgae, sponges and corals. They swim right through my seahorse group when they gather to eat -- right in their faces. They are mine. I loved them before I got them. I still love those little house wreckers!

 

[jaws222]

can i ask how big they tend to get?