sleeper gobie mistake...

acanman · May 23, 2009

i think i made a huge mistake when i bought one of these at my lfs... its a gold banded sleeper gobie.. i have some shrimp gobies in my other tanks and i like them since they help sift the sand and keep the top layer sturred up.. so in my 75 gallon i thought i would get a bigger version of my shrimp gobies... well he is about 3 inches long and it shifts sand all right.. it will go in the front of my tank get huge mouth fulls of sand an go bout half way up in the water colum and let the sand rain down on my corals like crazy... im starting to hate this fish... it covered my blastos and some of my zoas.. so i tried to move them but it keeps covering my corals up like its funny or something..... not to mention that he dug severial chambers all through and around my rockwork......anyone else had this problem with there sleeper gobies....???

acanman · May 23, 2009

oh ya btw stop making it rain sand in my tank..(whick i hope he does cause fish are not easy to catch...)can they be kept with other types of gobies like shrimp gobies?

Supreme Reefs · May 23, 2009

yeah i hate them for that reason but they do a really good job on sifting the sand... TOO good of a job... the diamond sleeper gobies tend to stay lower near the sand the golden heads seem to swim a bit higher in the tank than the diamonds...

Paul_N · May 23, 2009

Yeah, I have a dragon (barred) gobie that also sifts and then rises up in the water column and lets it rain. I also have a high fin shrimp gobie in the same tank and they don't even look at each other.

acanman · May 23, 2009

Paul_PSU said:
Yeah, I have a dragon (barred) gobie that also sifts and then rises up in the water column and lets it rain. I also have a high fin shrimp gobie in the same tank and they don't even look at each other.

is the dragon a sleeper? im not familiar with it??? and mine is constantly sifting sand and the aftermath is corals covered in sand....

twinspots_goby · Jun 11, 2009

I have the same problem too. I hate it, but I like it too.

fsu1dolfan · Jun 11, 2009

Yup i had one in my tank but it too drove me nuts....gave him to a friend and a little bit better in his tank....also once he left my sand became unbelievably dirty....my snail CUC had to be increased....these guys deffinitely do an amazing job just extremely messy!!!