Are Gh sleeper goby's safe for reef?

[zanoshanox]

The reason i ask is becuase this thing is trirring up SO MUCH CRUD in my tank by his sloppy but overly thorough job that he does of sand sifting. He has been in the display for 3 days and has gotten sand ALL OVER THE ROCKS and stirred up ALL KINDS OF CRUD, which has made my water murky. What do you think? Is this gonna bother my corals?

 

[sufunk]

It definitely might bother them. What kind of corals? I had to get rid of our sand sifting goby because he kept sifting sand over all our corals and live rock. He made a mess and the corals definitely werent happy to get half covered every day.

 

[rujelus22]

I have one in my reef and besides the taking some sand off of things occasionaly, he was a great addition, when he first got into my tank he did stir up quite a bit but now that he has been in there for about 3 months things clear up and my substrate looks great.

 

[hedonic]

Originally Posted by rujelus22
I have one in my reef and besides the taking some sand off of things occasionaly, he was a great addition, when he first got into my tank he did stir up quite a bit but now that he has been in there for about 3 months things clear up and my substrate looks great.
I second that, mine stirred things up pretty bad when he first arrived, maybe the beds just packed full of little morsels, but he evntually should settle down as he devours them.

 

[dogstar]

Could be good for filter feeding type corals. The consaint stirring up the sand bed could be putting micro organisums and phyto into the water column for those type of corals. Could be....

 

[zanoshanox]

Yeah it looks like it sorta goes both ways. i had one before, but he wasnt near as active as this one. i have a sebea anemone, BTA, frogspawn, some orange zoo's, and the large green/yellow polyps.

 

[fanker]

shane if u want to get rid of it ill take it

 

[zanoshanox]

I was actually contemplating it...Lol. What all do you have in your tank now dan? Coral &fish? (assuming you still have the 55 set up)
STILL NEED TO COME PICK UP THOSE FRAGS! lol dangit

 

[fanker]

i have 1 clown, and all my corals are high up. u need to pick that stuff up. i want an elephant ear shroom i have a HUGE one with 2 mouths and it takes up a huge space on my rocks u want half? also u going to buy that MH and maybe the tank?

 

[zanoshanox]

Well i dont know if i'll have room for the elephant ear on my rocks, but we'll see when i get a chance to come look. But for right now i think i'm just gonna go with the candy cane if u still have it. Do you keep yours in the sand or on the rocks?

 

[fanker]

i keep it on the rocks but they look nice on the sand.

 

[zanoshanox]

Yeah I think i might end up putting down in on the sand

 

[fanker]

ya when ever u pic it up.....u got any thing to frag? like that frogspawn?

 

[zanoshanox]

Lol well yeah I actually have been looking into how to frag them...not sure if i'm going to yet tho. I have a pretty big polyp frag you might want tho.