I have a 3 month old 38 gallon IM with with 40lbs of mature live rock and 40 lbs of "live" sand. I bought a white glider ladder goby (sleeper blue dot) about a month ago. Noticed the last few weeks that he's wasting away. I've tried feeding mysis, cyclopees, brine, flakes and fish eggs. He eats everything but is still losing body mass. I've read this particular species is tough to keep. Shame on me for not doing better research...shame on my lfs for selling this fish into a known knew setup. Bottom line I'm looking to try to save him or give him to someone with a mature larger setup so he can feed himself. Any advice would be appreciated. I live in Jupiter FL and would be happy to give him to a larger tank in the area. He filters the sand all day and keeps my tank immaculate. Hate to see him go. Btw...I bought a yellow prawn goby at the same time and they hang together in the same hole...he's doing great. Any thoughts??
My goby is starving...help please
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kegogut
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This^^
Go and get some pods from reefs2go or whichever LFS you prefer.toss them in. You may have do this every couple weeks to every month with a tank that small.
humaguy
Premium Member
too small....at least anything I have seen in a bottle would be too small for your guy...
reefs2go....
...and if he is still happily cleaning, excellent, but with reefs2go bogof deal, I would buy 3,000 pods and get 3,000 free...
humaguy
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LobsterOfJustice
Recovering Detritophobe
You said he is eating frozen food but still wasting away?
Feed him a lot of frozen food. A LOT.
I posted the same thing about my pair of diamond gobies last fall. They were eating but still getting skinny. What I started doing was turning the return pump off and completely overfeeding the tank. I used to feed 1 cube mysis twice a day at the time, and I upped it to 4 or more cubes per feeding. I just kept putting mysis in until their bellies looked like they were about to burst. After a few weeks of that I cut back a bit, but continued to feed a lot more than I was before. In addition to doing that, I also drop clams on the half shell into the tank about twice a week, mainly for the angelfish, but the gobies pig out on them too.
Sand sifting gobies just need a lot more food than some other fish IMO.
Feed him a lot of frozen food. A LOT.
I posted the same thing about my pair of diamond gobies last fall. They were eating but still getting skinny. What I started doing was turning the return pump off and completely overfeeding the tank. I used to feed 1 cube mysis twice a day at the time, and I upped it to 4 or more cubes per feeding. I just kept putting mysis in until their bellies looked like they were about to burst. After a few weeks of that I cut back a bit, but continued to feed a lot more than I was before. In addition to doing that, I also drop clams on the half shell into the tank about twice a week, mainly for the angelfish, but the gobies pig out on them too.
Sand sifting gobies just need a lot more food than some other fish IMO.
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