Wheres my grama!!!!!???

[ConnorG]

I bought a royal grama from la last Tuesday. It is now Thursday almost 2 weeks later and still no signs of him. I haven't had any amonia spikes or anything like that. No sign what so ever I'm worried it is dead in the rocks any ideas on what to do? And he hasn't come out to eat at all either.... Any ideas?:uhoh2:

 

[jdraider75]

It took mine over 2 Weeks for mine to come out and eat. And then he just darted out and grabbes a few peices of food and hid again it took probably a month or so before he would come out of the live rock much. I also thought mine was a gonner but I guess they are just shy. Mine still hides most of the time had him probably 5 months but he knows when its time to eat cause he out swimmn around.

 

[Decadence]

Royal Grammas are great hiders and have differing individual personalities. When I first got mine, he only came out a few times in the first week and then went missing for a whole week. I found him hiding in the base of my skimmer pump in the sump happy as a clam. I put some mesh up on the overflow and now form time to time I find him hanging out on the overflow screen letting the water rush past him. He is the least gregarious of my fish and startles easily.

You may not see him for a while but he is probably in there. He is less likely to come out if there are any aggressive tank mates.

 

[Meanmike]

Mine is always out and almost never hides. Strange how they can differ so much.

 

[ferguson2]

I've lose my yellow watchman and royal gramma for weeks at a time, lost the yellow watchman for 3 months once so I wouldnt worry to much im sure he'll show up eventually.

 

[sponger0]

Mine is always out and almost never hides. Strange how they can differ so much.

I agree. I read that they will pick a spot and they hide and so on.

Well I put mine in my tank and he was out and about after about 10 minutes. He swims all over the tank. Never really sticking to one spot. But he does have his sleeping spot preference. A rock he can swim into and swim back out on the top. Lol. Its pretty cool.

 

[ConnorG]

Still no sign

 

[ConnorG]

It's weird cuz he was out for the first day all day and then the second day he began hiding

 

[PorkchopExpress]

Mine used to hide all the time when I had a sixline in there with him. The sixline would approach his area which was under a plating hydnophora skeleton and he would come out with his mouth wide open. Once I got rid of the sixline for bullying to death 2 other fish I had, he came out as if he was the man of the tank and seemingly started bullying all the other fish. It seemed like it was only a show of dominance since he was, in fact, the next big fish and that only went on for a day. He comes out a lot more now that no one goes near his area.

 

[ConnorG]

Still no sign...and ideas on how to drive him out? I have a red and blue wrasse could that be scaring it into hiding?

 

[ConnorG]

The grama hasn't been out for 3 weeks not even to eat sooo am convinced he is dead.