Gobies Keep Dying

[boogieman77]

I have a 65 Gallon reef tank thats been up and running for around 6-7 Months now and having a hard time with adding a sand sifting goby. At first my sleeper banded goby did fine for a few months then found him floating around dead. So I went out and got another one and few weeks later he was dead. Tried a lawnmower bleamey and he didnt last 1 day. My stock is 2 clowns, six line wrasse, yellow watchman goby, blue hippoe tang, yellow tang. Normal cleanup crew of snails and blue legged crabs. 2 cleaner shrimp and a Fireman shrimp and 1 arrow crab. Weekly water changes of 10-15 gallons. All perimeters are excellent. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Flippers4pups]

Lack of food in the sand or sand particle size is to large, gets lodged internally, killing them. Or Six line aggression.

 

[critofer]

+1 on six line aggression

I had to get ride of mine because it killed everything in my tank, I lost 2 blood shrimp, firefish, royal gamma, starfish, and alot of snails because of it.

 

[Fish4Me2]

A lot of gobies eat the pods in your tank. If the goby can eat the pods faster than they can reproduce, eventually the fish will starve. Is it possible that's what's going on?

 

[SushiGirl]

Or aggression from the yellow watchman...