Adding a Gold Headed Sleeper Goby to my tank

Sacohen

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I would like to add a Gold Headed Sleeper Goby to my tank.

It's a 55 Gallon tank with a Pro Clear Pro 75 Wet/Dry filter.
Coralife Lunar Aquatic compact Fluorescent lights
A NatureReef Denitrification chamber, a Quite One 3000 return pump and a JBJ Oceanstream Circulation Pump/Powerhead + Duo Wavemaker Kit 1600 gph

Fish include 2 false Clownfish, a bicolor psudochromis, Flame angle and a Yellow Tang.

1 Pencil Urchin and a Coral Banded Shrimp.

Several Tubro Snails and Mexican Turbo's along with Nassarius snails, Red Led\g Crabs and Blue Knuckle Crabs.

Corals include a Goniporia (Flower Pot) Toadstool Leather, Finger Leather, Duncan, encursting star polyps and several other mushrooms and zoos that I can't remember the exact names of.

Will the Gold Headed Sleeper Goby be OK with the other fish or inverts?
The CBS seems to be the most aggressive of anything in the tank.
 
I just added on, but I don't have a shrimp. He hid for 2 weeks until he was finally comfortable enough to come out in the open. He lives under a rock, and jets back there every time he feels danger (even though no one has even showed the slightest interest in him).
He's a great addition, keeps to himself and has so far cleaned the area just outside his home- I'm hoping that he spreads his territory. Just be prepared for some sand storms as he is always sifting.
 
Yeah. I seem to remember they are kind of shy. I had one in my old 125 without any problems, but that tank is more than double what I have now.

I'm just afraid of compatibility with what I have. I don't want to spend $20 on a fish to have it bullied to death inside of a week.
 
Keep a mesh top on the tank. If you have corals on the bottom of the tank, be prepared. The sleepers are notorious for getting a load of sand, moving up in the tank, and sifting on everything below.
 
I don't see any problem with your current stocking, the sleeper should be fine in the tank and I doubt there would be any bullying.
 
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