Where is my yellow watchman goby?

ReedLem · Feb 18, 2023

I added a ywg, royal gramma, and a skunk shrimp to my tank the other day and the shrimp is doing good, royal gramma is obvious hiding right now but I know where her cave is in my rock work so not too worried. The problem rises with my YWG. So I released on the right side of the tank and it swam instantly to the left side (55 gallon) and hid instantly, i saw it go behind the rocks and thought I knew where it was so I waited the rest of the day until today where I tried to feed, everyone ate except the YWG, I dont know where he is and I tried moving some rocks to maybe get a glimpse of him but to no prevail. Is this normal for them to hide this much, if I had to assume they are in the rocks instead of in between them on the sand? Is my sand maybe too big, please help I am a little nervous.

White rocks is left side's rock structure on the tank, purple rocks are the tank's right side of the tank rock structure, then last picture is just sand texture and how fine it is. It was caribsea aragonite ontop of pink bahama sand (super fine)

(middle rock is gsp lol)

if you have any prior experience with YWG please help me.

Derrick0580 · Feb 18, 2023

Do you have an overflow? If so check in there or the sump. Otherwise check the floor around the tank.

ReedLem · Feb 18, 2023

Derrick0580 said:
Do you have an overflow? If so check in there or the sump. Otherwise check the floor around the tank.

already checked my sump and just looked on floor, nothing.

stephydawn · Mar 8, 2023

I added a Yasha goby and candy cane shrimp January 24. I fished the goby out of the back of my Aio chamber 3 times the first couple of weeks but since I’ve never seen the shrimp out of the cave but hear it and can see it shining a light in the hole at night. I finally saw the Yasha goby a couple days again pop out of the hole for 1 second. They haven’t moved any sand around on the surface so far, just have a tiny entrance under the rock. I may try and place a rock to make an overhang a little over their cave, maybe they will venture more.

stephydawn · Mar 8, 2023

Also, I have been making sure I put some pellets in front of the cave just in case, I don’t want them to starve. I started doing it for the shrimp when I thought the goby was dead.