24 JBJ at 8 Months

[newbercube]

hey everyone long time no post.
My JBJ has been up for about 8 months now and here is my stock and a few pics.
Fish:
1 Royal Gramma
1 Blue Damsel
1 Scissortale Goby (just added today...follow up question coming)
Coral:
Pulsing Xenia
Green Mushroom
Green Hammer Coral
Some tiny Polyps that got covered by hair algae and only a few left
I took these pictures right when my tank came on so my Hammer Coral isn't completely opened up yet....my bad..it gets really big when it's fully open.
My question is this: I added my goby today and he darted into a dime sized hole in one of my rocks and never came out...thing is I don't think there is another side to the hole and if there is it's blocked by the sand cause the rock is at the bottom of my tank. What should I do ? Is there any way to get him out or will he come out ? I hope I don't have to take apart my rock structure and shake that rock till he comes out lol. He's such a cool looking dude too!

 

[feixjai]

just give it sometime to acclimate in your tank. my purple firefish was like that for almost a week. never came out and finally it came out to eat when i fed my fish one day. are you going to do something about that algae or are you just going to leave it?

 

[newbercube]

Yup the algae is getting eaten as we speak, since that pic i dumped 5 mexican turbo grazers and there is around 8 red leg hermits in there. I wanted to get a lawnmower blenny so bad but the LFS guy told me he would eat himself out of a job so I didn't get one.

 

[rara12]

get one any way, they do a great job and algea will grow back. Plus they will eat frozen foods.

 

[gregzbobo]

not many creatures I know of will touch the cyanobacteria you have in there (redslime) that stuff is usually caused by excess phosphate, either in the makeupwater or fish food.

 

[oreo12]

Originally Posted by gregzbobo
not many creatures I know of will touch the cyanobacteria you have in there (redslime) that stuff is usually caused by excess phosphate, either in the makeupwater or fish food.
I agree way to much red stuff try sucking it out with the water change