yellow clown goby question?

[jossc]

Hello everyone,

I am currently using a fluval sea evo 13.5g with stock everything but added a jebaeo sw-2 wave maker which I have set on pulse and on its lowest setting. I have 2 common clownfish and one yellow clown goby. I added him a week ago and I haven't seen him eat yet and he just sits in the bottom left corner of my tank and barely moves. some mornings I have found him hiding in the sump and he is so small he gets through the overflow teeth. if I turn the wave maker off he will occasionally come out and swim for a but and go back down to the bottom left but with the wavemaker on he wont move. should I be using a wavemaker on this tank? my params are all fine and the clowns don't cause him much bother they occasionally check him out but that's it.

 

[Paul B]

They are not that great of a swimmer and only eat very tiny food. I feed mine real small pieces of clams and they spawn almost every week. I can't tell from here what is wrong with yours but they live on Acropora and spawn all over it.

 

[jossc]

Just an update I tried feeding flakes instead of pellets, and crumbled them up, he had a couple of tiny bites today and yesterday but he has a bit of a sunken belly could this just be him looking skinny due to not eating? I can't get a good pic

 

[jossc]

More pics

 

[Paul B]

They generally don't eat flakes or pellets. Tiny pieces of clam or frozen food is what he needs, unless you want to hatch brine shrimp.