superstein61
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Well on my other thread about coraline outpacing my SPS, misled mentioned the clown goby as a possible culprit. Now I had never seen the clown goby nip at any polyps so that thought never crossed my mind.
Anyway, after the meeting last night I put the frags I came home with (4 from cloakerpoaked, 1 from TJ and 1 (the luck was not with me - as I really wanted a monticap) from the raffle in my tank with the lights already out.
This afternoon, with the lights on, I was cleaning the front glass to get a better look at my new additions (all of which seem to be doing great BTW), and I notice my Clown Goby admiring the green slimer frag from cloakerpoaked. Yep, next thing you know, the damn clown goby is snacking on it. I chase him away, continue cleaning and see the clown spying the acro I won in the raffle. CHOMP. He digs in on that one as well.
OK, enough is enough - I grab my net and say if you want to play that way, the game is on. So for 45 minutes i try and catch the #$%^&. Do you realize how difficult it is to catch such a small fish in a tank full of rock, corals and lots of hiding places.
So I resort to an old Python water changer tube - and see if I can create some suction and coax him into the tube. gave up after 10 minutes on that idea.
Finally as i sit down to watch the Pitt game, I have a brainstorm. I put my net in the tank, and put the acro and green slimer frags / plus inside the net - all sitting nicely on a rock. Then I wait. Stealing glances from the Pitt game to the tank - I see the clown goby spying the new additions. he explores from all angles but is careful not to enter the lair. he would come up from one side, then retreat. Well this went on for about 30 minutes when the temptation became too much for him. he swims in and lands on the green slimer plug. I slowly get out of my chair, and carefully reach in and grab the handle of the net and yank it up.
Woo hoo - trapped the sucker. I take the frags out of the net and put them back in the tank - leaving the poor helpless clown goby as my captive. Since I have no where else to put him (my wife kindly suggests out in the yard - and to think he was her favorite fish too), I check and see Wet Pets is open til 5. i look at my watch and its 4:35 so I go out on the snow covered roads and deliver the coral munching goby to Wet Pets so he can feast on someone else's tank.
hopefully now my SPS will do better than before. there is no doubt now that the clown goby was slowly killing them
good call jesse
Anyway, after the meeting last night I put the frags I came home with (4 from cloakerpoaked, 1 from TJ and 1 (the luck was not with me - as I really wanted a monticap) from the raffle in my tank with the lights already out.
This afternoon, with the lights on, I was cleaning the front glass to get a better look at my new additions (all of which seem to be doing great BTW), and I notice my Clown Goby admiring the green slimer frag from cloakerpoaked. Yep, next thing you know, the damn clown goby is snacking on it. I chase him away, continue cleaning and see the clown spying the acro I won in the raffle. CHOMP. He digs in on that one as well.
OK, enough is enough - I grab my net and say if you want to play that way, the game is on. So for 45 minutes i try and catch the #$%^&. Do you realize how difficult it is to catch such a small fish in a tank full of rock, corals and lots of hiding places.
So I resort to an old Python water changer tube - and see if I can create some suction and coax him into the tube. gave up after 10 minutes on that idea.
Finally as i sit down to watch the Pitt game, I have a brainstorm. I put my net in the tank, and put the acro and green slimer frags / plus inside the net - all sitting nicely on a rock. Then I wait. Stealing glances from the Pitt game to the tank - I see the clown goby spying the new additions. he explores from all angles but is careful not to enter the lair. he would come up from one side, then retreat. Well this went on for about 30 minutes when the temptation became too much for him. he swims in and lands on the green slimer plug. I slowly get out of my chair, and carefully reach in and grab the handle of the net and yank it up.
Woo hoo - trapped the sucker. I take the frags out of the net and put them back in the tank - leaving the poor helpless clown goby as my captive. Since I have no where else to put him (my wife kindly suggests out in the yard - and to think he was her favorite fish too), I check and see Wet Pets is open til 5. i look at my watch and its 4:35 so I go out on the snow covered roads and deliver the coral munching goby to Wet Pets so he can feast on someone else's tank.
hopefully now my SPS will do better than before. there is no doubt now that the clown goby was slowly killing them
good call jesse
I've wondered if maybe it has something to do with how often the fish are fed too. I feed maybe 3x a week to keep my nitrates down and because my fish load is so low in my system.
