Yellow watchman goes surfing

[exalectric]

So my yellow watchman (Steve) absolutely loves to go up to the top of the tank and surf on the current from the wave maker. It’s like his personal water slide. When the flow shuts off, he looks sad and sinks back to the bottom for normal goby activity. And once it goes on he will immediate jump up to the wave maker and ride it across the tank, swim back and do it again. The banded goby has no interest in going toward the top except for the food tweezers. (Photo of Steve being normal)

anyone else have a goby who does this?

 

[NashobaTek]

So my yellow watchman (Steve) absolutely loves to go up to the top of the tank and surf on the current from the wave maker. It’s like his personal water slide. When the flow shuts off, he looks sad and sinks back to the bottom for normal goby activity. And once it goes on he will immediate jump up to the wave maker and ride it across the tank, swim back and do it again. The banded goby has no interest in going toward the top except for the food tweezers. (Photo of Steve being normal)

anyone else have a goby who does this?

Get a picture of him surfing.

 

[exalectric]

Get a picture of him surfing.

It’s a bad photo (lights are headed out for the day, but here he is)

 

[HawkeyeDJ]

So my yellow watchman (Steve) absolutely loves to go up to the top of the tank and surf on the current from the wave maker. It’s like his personal water slide. When the flow shuts off, he looks sad and sinks back to the bottom for normal goby activity. And once it goes on he will immediate jump up to the wave maker and ride it across the tank, swim back and do it again. The banded goby has no interest in going toward the top except for the food tweezers. (Photo of Steve being normal)

anyone else have a goby who does this?

Dang! I thought you meant he had jumped out of the tank!

 

[exalectric]

Zoomed out here he is at the end of the flow (wave maker on right)

 

[exalectric]

Dang! I thought you meant he had jumped out of the tank!

Sometimes he hops out on the top, but I haven’t been able to get a photo. Hell start right next to it and ride it back to the other side. Sometimes half out of the water or justttttt at the surface

 

[Manny D. Mandarin]

It’s a bad photo (lights are headed out for the day, but here he is)

I need to go surfing with this guy!

 

[NashobaTek]

That's so cool!

 

[exalectric]

Also tra

I need to go surfing with this guy!

I think the new lionfish wants to try too. He hangs out in the flow and opens his fins to zoom across backwards right at the surface too (or he wants to eat Steve... not sure yet)

 

[exalectric]

Here they are together.

 

[HawkeyeDJ]

Well, to quote Crush the sea turtle: You got some serious thrill issues, dude!

 

[Manny D. Mandarin]

Here they are together.

That side eye he is giving Steve in that pictures is a little suspicious! haha

 

[paradizecityz]

I'm not sure if they're all weird. Mine just likes to stay in his cave but every now and then, he goes out and swims around or surfs the water too. I've even seen mine sit on the overflow weir that I thought the fish died so I reach in to grab him and he would just swims away. He's done that several times to me... lol

 

[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

Steve the surfer still here?
D

 

[exalectric]

Steve the surfer still here?
D

Yes, he's alive and well. The lion fish (named Mefitis) might want to be Steve's friend? I watched them for several hours last night and they both just sorta hung out together. That being said, when the Lion gets bigger...... But there are plans to move the Puffer and Lion to their own tank when they're bigger.

 

[exalectric]

I'm not sure if they're all weird. Mine just likes to stay in his cave but every now and then, he goes out and swims around or surfs the water too. I've even seen mine sit on the overflow weir that I thought the fish died so I reach in to grab him and he would just swims away. He's done that several times to me... lol

Our puffer sits on the wave maker and pump outlets so Steve doesn't have the chance!

 

[G Santana]

Surfs up, lol too cute!!!

 

[exalectric]

Update. The Lionfish no longer seems to care about Steve. However Picasso the trigger kept nipping at Steve’s tail. For Steve’s safety he has moved into his own biocube until we get the predator tank up for the trigger, lion and puffer. His new home is a little sparse at the moment with just a bit of rock snagged from another tank.

 

[SaltyT]

So does that mean Steve has retired from surfing?

 

[exalectric]

So does that mean Steve has retired from surfing?

For now. At least until his tail heals up and we get the Meanie Butt Head out of the reef. I dislike that the husband decided to bring home a trigger before we have the predator tank up and running....