The dumbest fish u have ever seen!!!

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Vince272992

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Hi just got this beautiful yellow watchmen goby yesterday at about 6 o clock and he was in my tank at about 7:15 anyways when i shut of the lights last night he did not "sleep" in any burrow wht so ever but instead slept in the corner of the tank, and today after coming home i look in the tank and could not find him any where, i knew they were jumpers so i immmedietly started looking around the floor to find him and couldnt find him any where

so i looked in the over flow and sure enough he was in there swimming like crazy in the 2nd stage of the over flow in about a 2in radius, so after 5 min if trying to get him out of that tiny opening i finally got him out with a spoon and put him back in the tank

one hour later i look in the tank and cant find him any where AGAIN so i immedietly looked in the over flow and he wasnt there, then looked on the floor and he wasnt there so then i looked in the tank one more time and he was suctioned onto my koralia 1050 so i got him off and he just started swimming sround like it was nothing. (he was not hurt when i got him out of the over flow and he was swimming every where so he didnt just drift into the power head cause of weakness)

and it doesnt end there he is the ONLY goby i know of that never goes to the sand bed or LR and perches he swims around constantly and its just the wierdest thing

Any ideas why he does this and also tell me ur stupid fish stoies if u have any
 
I'd agree with SushiGirl, I don't believe he's "dumb" although it may appear to be that ;) I believe he might just be a little scared and stressed out. I'm glad you saved his lil life a couple times now ;) He should be a keeper :) Let us know how he does over the next couple weeks :)
 
theres a clown that ive seen chase it a couple of times but other then thatb he is swimming all the time and seems happy????
 
Me too :) The yellow watchman has always had a little piece of my heart ;) And those sweet little "mean mugs" that they have :) Try and give him a pistol, might help "lure" him down to the sand if he has some "heat" on him :D
 
this is my first and he is already one of my favorites and also my lights have been off for a while now and i looked in the tank and he was resting on the silicone on the top right hand corner, he wasn't dead or any thing he was breathing fine but should i be concerned now cause im starting to get nervous haha also if i get the pistol shrimp and it doesnt lure him will the shrimp die since he is blind
 
Watchmen gobies usually sit on the bottom when they're happy, not swim all around. What are your water parameters? Have you checked your ammonia after you added him? What size is this tank? What other fish are in there besides apparently a clown?
 
its a 65gal tank and i have 2 firefish, a mckoskers flasher wrasse and the clown and my paramentes are good ( I think) everything on my new test kit nitrate and nitrite is 0 and on my year old test kit for ammoina it says 1.0 but when i had my LFS test my water it said 0 sooooo ya haha
 
hey guys also i woke up this morning and he was in the same spot in the over flow AGAIN so i rescued him AGAIN and sealed the opening even more then it already was!!!!!!!
 
what kind of water circulation is there besides the 1050 pump? Sounds like there might be too much current for him to find a nice spot to settle... possibly?
 
MrTuskfish said:
All fish are stupid; comes with being a fish.
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My view as well. How many jump out of a tank, starve themselves even with food bouncing off them, fail to take measures when being bullied, etc.? I don't think there is any natural selection for smarts, only for herd behavior (stay in the middle of the pack and keep your head down, swim faster than the fish next to you).
 
Dr Colliebreath said:
My view as well. How many jump out of a tank, starve themselves even with food bouncing off them, fail to take measures when being bullied, etc.? I don't think there is any natural selection for smarts, only for herd behavior (stay in the middle of the pack and keep your head down, swim faster than the fish next to you).
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Yes, clearly, a small animal ripped from its natural environment and placed in a condition that is terrifying to it is stupid because it reacts to that situation in a way that we don't anticipate.
 
My YWG did the exact same thing. When I first got him....he swam like crazy at the top of my 75g tank. Would not go to the bottom for nothing, even tried turning all the lights out. He would also get sucked up against the gate of my overflow and not attempt to swim free. Eventually went down my overflow....got him out and put him back in the main tank. We repeated this excercise a couple of times. I had a 1 gallon hob refugium on my tank that I was growing pods in, so I put him in there. He we straight to the bottom and finally chilled out. I left him in there for about a week and made sure he was eating good and calmed down. Then I took him out and attempted to put him back in the main tank. Went nuts again just like he did the first time. I finally caught him and put him back in the hob refugium. Went to the LFS and got him a Pistol Shrimp the next day. They bonded immediatly. After a few days in the HOB....I introduced them into the Main Tank together.....They have been model citizens every since. Except for the occasional frag that dissapears under their rock from time to time....my PS has sticky claws.

IME...your YWG's bahavior is due to being overwhelmed and stressed (can't blame the little guy after all he has been through). Try to set him up in a little refugium, either hob or preferrably an in-tank that sets on the bottom of your tank in the sand (maybe even a clear container with holes cut in it). He will eventually settle down....and get a PS if you can...will definitely settle down.
 
hahaha thats a good point ALLmost and SweetTang i will defiantly get a pistol shrimp when my LFS has one in, and i would set that small refugium or container or even just throw him into my current 20gal regugium but he is VERY hard to catch so i just let him be after 15min or so of trying to get him cause i was scared that he would get even more stressed and get sick... if he jumps into the over flow again (which i doubt he will cause i covered that tank like no other) then i will throw him in the refugium... also he has finally found one of the burrows i made him in advance before i put him in the tank and he seems to like it so i think that should help with his stress level.
 
rssjsb said:
Yes, clearly, a small animal ripped from its natural environment and placed in a condition that is terrifying to it is stupid because it reacts to that situation in a way that we don't anticipate.
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They are stupid because they starve themselves to death in the presence of feed, let themselves get beaten to death without fighting back, got caught, etc. I am not a fish biologist but I doubt they are terrified. The instinctive development appears very limited which is why nature dumps large enough numbers in so that species survive. It is fine if you feel that they have reasoning power or some other mental capacity that you consider smart, but I don't see it in my fish.
 
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