Red Fin Goby Died

[ScottyD36]

I added a Red Fin Goby to my tank two weeks ago. It was doing fine. It was eating and looked healthy. This morning when I woke up to check on my tank it’s head was digging at the sand and it’s tail towards top of water. I thought nothing of it and figured it was trying to create a burrow. When I got home from work I found my goby with its head inside one of the rocks and it looked like it got stuck and suffocated itself. My water parameters are fine. Meaning ammonia, nitrite 0 nitrate at 5ppm which it usually sits at. Salinity was normal. I didn’t add anything new to the tank either. Is this just a case of bad luck and a goby can get its head stuck in a rock and suffocate. Or is their something more I should be looking into. Just very confused as I am only 3 months into the saltwater hobby and don’t want to make same mistake again.

 

[Dragon52]

It just happens sometimes, we all lose fish & other things we put in our tanks. Not a whole lot you can do. What other kinds of fish do you have? Any chance of something scaring it.

 

[ScottyD36]

The only thing I have in my tank currently is a clown fish and a couple snails

 

[Dragon52]

Clown fish are known to be mean on occasion, Mine will go after me or anything else if it gets to close. How big is the tank?

 

[ScottyD36]

It’s a 13.5 gallon tank. My clown fish always stayed at the top in the Gobi always stayed at the bottom.

 

[Dragon52]

Sometimes they just die & there doesn't seem to be anything we can do. It happens to all of us.

 

[NashobaTek]

Sorry for your loss. I will tell you the same thing another breeder told me when my favorite animal died. If you're going to have livestock.... You're going to have dead stock, it happens. I am not trying to sound crass or mean, it's just a fact of life.