New fish additions hiding for over a week?
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Have you fed the tank and they still haven't came out? Did you qt them? How did you acclimate them? How big is your tank?
I know it's not uncommon for new addition to hide for a while, personally I've never had a fish hide for more than a day on me. Especially a sand sifting goby, as they usually start working the sand bed immediately. The gramma is definitely more inclined to hide.
I would give it more time, since it's a new tank you should be watching your ammonia and if you see a big spike you can assume that one or both may have died. If not I would probably give it a month before I decided to purchase another of the same species.
I know it's not uncommon for new addition to hide for a while, personally I've never had a fish hide for more than a day on me. Especially a sand sifting goby, as they usually start working the sand bed immediately. The gramma is definitely more inclined to hide.
I would give it more time, since it's a new tank you should be watching your ammonia and if you see a big spike you can assume that one or both may have died. If not I would probably give it a month before I decided to purchase another of the same species.
chris82079
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my gramma is in my overflow...has been there since like the first week i had it
You must get her out...she is going to die.
davehead86
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My watchman goby has been in my tank for 3 weeks now. I have to look REALLY hard sometimes to find him. He does not like the pellets that much so I have to spot feed frozen food to him and my starfish once a week.
Just now at three weeks he is starting to come out a little bit more and more, i actually saw him swim yesterday to get a pellet.
Seems these little rock dwellers are very skiddish.
Just now at three weeks he is starting to come out a little bit more and more, i actually saw him swim yesterday to get a pellet.
Seems these little rock dwellers are very skiddish.
e048
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If they croaked a cuc will make short work of a gramma especially the shrimp
I had a fighting conch die and it took me a week to realize he had died until I noticed the shell in the same place everyday and my film algae near the sand getting denser and denser then my brother told me he saw the shrimp picking at the conch a few days earlier so there's that
I had a fighting conch die and it took me a week to realize he had died until I noticed the shell in the same place everyday and my film algae near the sand getting denser and denser then my brother told me he saw the shrimp picking at the conch a few days earlier so there's that
