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jpontier212 · May 6, 2016

I have a royal gramma that i thought had ich. I took him out of the display and took it to my lfs. After they checked him out they said he doesn't have ich but looks like he's being picked on. Some scales missing and a tiny piece of tail fin was gone as well. He shares his little nook with an emerald crab so maybe he's the culprit but i brought him home and put him back in my DP and i haven't seen him since. He's not in his norma caves he likes to frequent. It's been 3 days and i haven't seen him even when we feed. Maybe food is getting to him where he is but the back of my aquarium is against my wall and painted black to boot so i can't see back there. Should i start moving all the rock until i find him? Or let him come out on his own? And if i do wait, for how much longer?

JPSika08 · May 6, 2016

I would check under/behind the rocks, just to be sure, three days is a lot of time for you to not see him.

Any chance of him jumping?

jpontier212 · May 6, 2016

JPSika08 said:
I would check under/behind the rocks, just to be sure, three days is a lot of time for you to not see him.

Any chance of him jumping?

That was the first thing i checked for. The floor ,the overflow box, the sump, no Sign of him. I'm going to feed again at 6 with some mysis shrimp hopefully we'll see him. All 8 eyes of my house will be at the back of the aquarium. Hopefully he'll peek his head out long enough to feed and be seen

JPSika08 · May 6, 2016

Good luck, hopefully he is just hiding!

Duke4Life · May 6, 2016

What other fish?

jpontier212 · May 6, 2016

Duke4Life said:
What other fish?

Yellow tang, Tomini tang, lawnmower blenny and a maroon clownfish

Duke4Life · May 6, 2016

How big of a tank?

Fleetking1 · May 6, 2016

Royal Gamma's are very skittish fish. I have one and he hides most of the time. RG really need a lot of confidence to swim in an open take. However, I added 5 anthias (schooling fish) to my tank and with in ours he was swimming around the tank with no problems. When removed and sold the anthias, he went back in to hiding.

-Robb

jpontier212 · May 6, 2016

Duke4Life said:
How big of a tank?

55 gallon

jpontier212 · May 6, 2016

Fleetking1 said:
Royal Gamma's are very skittish fish. I have one and he hides most of the time. RG really need a lot of confidence to swim in an open take. However, I added 5 anthias (schooling fish) to my tank and with in ours he was swimming around the tank with no problems. When removed and sold the anthias, he went back in to hiding.

-Robb

I see. My tangs are very active and swim the whole tank daily but my yellow tang as aggressive as he is might be the problem. All my fishes have a little nick somewhere from that guy. Except the lawnmower blenny. He wants no part of him

Duke4Life · May 6, 2016

jpontier212 said:
I see. My tangs are very active and swim the whole tank daily but my yellow tang as aggressive as he is might be the problem.

+1 They're not swimming, more like pacing. Tangs need some running room.

Zoey · May 7, 2016

ive got a gramma, does tend to hid alot. have you seen it today?

Tahoe61 · May 7, 2016

I just got another Royal Gramma, it hid for about 3 weeks deep in a bolt hole. They need a lot of time to acclimate and are not the most social fish. This has been my experience with Royal Grammas, and I have kept roughly 6 of them over they years.