Ok, so Im fairly new to the hobby, but ive always tried to research my stockings and go slow. But This is a question that really has me mad.
My yellow watchman Goby is dead... He is currently in the hands of my Coral banded Shrimp. But He has been very healthy up until this point... and now of course he doesnt look like he just died, but he was fine yesterday.
However, in researching, Im thinking maybe the CBS didnt kill it, but perhaps a Brittle Star. ive literally had a brittle star in the tank and it had hid under a chunk of coral since i first populated the tank with inverts and before fish.
He never moved, even though my serpent is always out and about.
Well two days ago, the brittle seemed to move from his coral chunk up into the middle of the tank in the area the goby seemed to call home.
So would a mid size CBS kill a good size 3" goby, or was it more likely the Brittle, which i have never seen out and about , but suddenly moved into the Goby's domain? The CBS is the newest addition, but has been there about a month, and doesnt even mess with the peppermint shrimps.
Judging by people calling them mostly reef safe /fish safe, it seems that just like anything else it varys from fish to fish and tank to tank. But then i see alot of posts now that say CBS will spear some fish , but by the same token I see that people say, Brittles are Goby slayers...
It sucks that I paid 3 times what the CBS and brittle costs combined for the watchman and he had been in there happy for 6 months or more.
Any thoughts?
It seems like Every time I seemingly find a new addition someone has had one that was fine and then someone has one that went crazy on their tank. Is it really that random with every saltwater inhabitant.
Ive got freshwater fish intermixed for years with things like shovelnose cats, redtails, half dollars, loaches etc. and they dont go around eating one another or even the small ones.
My yellow watchman Goby is dead... He is currently in the hands of my Coral banded Shrimp. But He has been very healthy up until this point... and now of course he doesnt look like he just died, but he was fine yesterday.
However, in researching, Im thinking maybe the CBS didnt kill it, but perhaps a Brittle Star. ive literally had a brittle star in the tank and it had hid under a chunk of coral since i first populated the tank with inverts and before fish.
He never moved, even though my serpent is always out and about.
Well two days ago, the brittle seemed to move from his coral chunk up into the middle of the tank in the area the goby seemed to call home.
So would a mid size CBS kill a good size 3" goby, or was it more likely the Brittle, which i have never seen out and about , but suddenly moved into the Goby's domain? The CBS is the newest addition, but has been there about a month, and doesnt even mess with the peppermint shrimps.
Judging by people calling them mostly reef safe /fish safe, it seems that just like anything else it varys from fish to fish and tank to tank. But then i see alot of posts now that say CBS will spear some fish , but by the same token I see that people say, Brittles are Goby slayers...
It sucks that I paid 3 times what the CBS and brittle costs combined for the watchman and he had been in there happy for 6 months or more.
Any thoughts?
It seems like Every time I seemingly find a new addition someone has had one that was fine and then someone has one that went crazy on their tank. Is it really that random with every saltwater inhabitant.
Ive got freshwater fish intermixed for years with things like shovelnose cats, redtails, half dollars, loaches etc. and they dont go around eating one another or even the small ones.
