Beware of sand sifting goby

[skeeter_ca]

I used to have a Juvenile Dragon Wrasse that would take my crushed coral sand bed(back then it was an under gravel filter plate) and move each piece in his mouth one by one and pile it on top of a big rock. Sometimes he would move enough to get all the way down to the filter. Funny guy but a pain in the ***.

skeeter

 

[ravin01]

I hate my sand sifting goby. I've tried everything. I take most people's suggestions at the local fish stores fore what they are worth now. Early one one of them told me I would just luv the sand shifters.

It throws sand non stop. If I could spear and kill it I would in a heart beat

 

[BigEZ77]

I love mine. Have and orange marked/lined goby. Stays low and is constantly working on the sand as well as algae on rocks. I stayed away from a DWG from all the stuff I read about them on here, love this little guy though.

 

[Sk8r]

THe yellow watchman is a lot more sedate as a sandsifter..

 

[WaReefer458]

diamond gobies are well behaved but I had a pair of sleepers years ago... bastards would grab a mouth full and swim to the top of the tank to spit it out... drove me nuts... they ended up in an 800 gal cube in a dentists office after that... they weren't my problem lol

 

[SeaTila]

that's an expensive snow globe.

Lmao

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[oldpaddy]

Sorry to bump an old thread, but I love sand sifting gobies! I've had one in my display for a year and he does an amazing job cleaning the substrate. I just picked another one up for my refugium. He's sitting in the bag in the sump right now!

 

[CrayolaViolence]

My dragon/violet goby never sifted sand... but he was an escape artist! was always finding him in the overflow, in the sump, wherever he would fit. One time I got up in the middle of the night and saw what looked like a fuzzy cat turd on the carpet. Turned out he had jumped the tank, flopped halfway across the room. I figured he was a goner, stone cold. Stuck him under the inflow for about 10 minutes and he just shot out of my hand happy as could be.

Fuzzy Cat Turd.

This is epic.