gold head goby and zoas

[Poseidons frags]

so i bought a huge colony of multiple different morphs of zoas and my goby dumped sand all over them and irrated them they havent opened up fully in about a week.. some are partially open others are all the way closed. my params and such are fine so i know its not that. any ideas what to do fellas? hope and pray?

 

[TankStudy]

This is why I stray from many species of gobies and blennies. Laying on zoanthids or carrying gravel all over on to everything.

What I found that worked was moving the zoanthids off ground or placing them on structures where if gravel was dumped on them, it would fall off. Pillar like zoanthid structures really but to have that gold headed goby, that is what I did for one of my tanks.

 

[650-IS350]

Sleeper head gobies are know as sand stirrers. Good for moving and cleaning sand . Bad for frags on the sand bed of sand particulates being blown all over your tank.

 

[A. Grandis]

Either remove the fish or the polyps to the rocks, far from sand.

Grandis.