Im done

[pass1over]

with diamond watchman gobies. This one was #4, less than 24 hours he was in my tank and i find him dried out and crispified behind the stand.

even with a ho0d on my tank, has like a 5 inch tallxlength of tank opening in the back, ehmanaged to jump out

are there any other sand-sifting gobies that arent prone to jumping out of the tank and wasting my $29?

[greg97527]

sounds like something is spooking ur gobies. you don't happen to have a lawnmower blenny do you?

I had a brown bar in my other tank for over a year with no suicides.

[pass1over]

only other fish are 4 chromis and a perc

hermits, snails and a cleaner shrimp are he only other moving critters in the tank

[iVgOnMaD]

could be the cleaner shrimp is freaking him out when he tries to clean him.

[pass1over]

cleaner shrimp was added with the last goby

had a coral banded in there with all the others

[iVgOnMaD]

what is the temperature of your tank? I have had problems with shrimp and other fish jumping out when my tank gets a little too hot. I guess its their way of naturally jumping out of small water pools that they could have gotten stuck in.

[pass1over]

tank stays between 80.2 and 80.7

[greg97527]

i personally run my tank at 75 degrees but the coral banded will be your culprit. They will eat fish, they sneak up on them at night and then grab them and pin them down with their claws so that would scare the goby I'm sure. I was losing fish left and right so I setup a vid camera and caught the little bugger in action.

[pass1over]

well, the coral banded isnt in the tank anymore, I got rid of him a few weeks ago
as for the temp ... i wtached him off and on for like 9 hours or so after I put him in and he was eating, sifting sand and making himself a little hidey hole and didnt seem disturbed at all

[graphixx]

you might try pairing him up with a pistol shrimp. that may calm him down a bit.