Just wanted to share a pic of my yellow watchman goby pair.
I got the female about 6 months before the male, when she was a male. After about a month in my tank she changed into a female (grey w/black bars). I read quite a few posts and almost all said the color change was due to stress, but further research led me to an article on breeding yellow watchman gobies and the pic of the female was the same.
I picked up the male later and although he was initially abused by everyone else in the tank (false percula, talbot's damsel, female yellow watchman goby), I threw a fishnet over him in the back corner for a couple days and everyone chilled out. The female in particular gave him a really rough time (shredded his fins pretty badly), but then they finally paired up and have been inseparable ever since. Now the male is about twice as big (and a major pig).
I've tried taking pics of these two for a while, but the female tends to be skittish, so I guess today was just lucky.
The white on my coraline algae is from the asterina stars in my tank. I'm in the process of harpooning these guys (needle glued to a large cooking chopstick) and little by little am getting them removed from the tank. I researched porcelain shrimp and a type of star that will eat them, but for a 20 gallon manual removal seems to be the safest bet. I don't mind a few (and actually think they're pretty cool, which is why I introduced them), but they definitely need a culling at this point.
Roland - in case you read this, that's one of the mushrooms from the PVC pipe you gave me. If you want one of them back, just let me know - I was able to get all of them off of the pipe.
John
I got the female about 6 months before the male, when she was a male. After about a month in my tank she changed into a female (grey w/black bars). I read quite a few posts and almost all said the color change was due to stress, but further research led me to an article on breeding yellow watchman gobies and the pic of the female was the same.
I picked up the male later and although he was initially abused by everyone else in the tank (false percula, talbot's damsel, female yellow watchman goby), I threw a fishnet over him in the back corner for a couple days and everyone chilled out. The female in particular gave him a really rough time (shredded his fins pretty badly), but then they finally paired up and have been inseparable ever since. Now the male is about twice as big (and a major pig).
I've tried taking pics of these two for a while, but the female tends to be skittish, so I guess today was just lucky.
The white on my coraline algae is from the asterina stars in my tank. I'm in the process of harpooning these guys (needle glued to a large cooking chopstick) and little by little am getting them removed from the tank. I researched porcelain shrimp and a type of star that will eat them, but for a 20 gallon manual removal seems to be the safest bet. I don't mind a few (and actually think they're pretty cool, which is why I introduced them), but they definitely need a culling at this point.
Roland - in case you read this, that's one of the mushrooms from the PVC pipe you gave me. If you want one of them back, just let me know - I was able to get all of them off of the pipe.
John
