Hold on.....BANG! Now I must eat the my sole!
ok I was thinking about something today....about the Dragon Goby and something wasnt sitting right with what I had said before. Then I saw the pic...and I new I had the right name to a wrong fish. So here it goes...the Dragon Goby probably does not
re-arange your tank...he isnt big enough and I dont believe it can do it.
The fish in question I thought it was, is called a "Dragon Wrasse"....or "Rock Mover Wrasse" this will re-arrange your corals...sorry for the mix up...this happens once in awhile when you try to remember all the fish at the aquarium. As for the 2nd name, I found the scientific name for you if you didnt know it.
There is like 5 or 6 fish that land in this scientific name
common name: Dragon Goby
scientific name: Amblygobius phalaena
I found some interesting information threw a story on the net, on these fish:
sandsifter gobies
I'm furious over misinformation that cost 2 fishes their lives. My 100 gallon tank has not quite live sand (inoculated with copepods, baby bristle and spaghetti worms and tiny white sand stars, but not nearly enough to get a good start in my large tank), and covered with brown algae and diatoms, do to poor circulation at that time. I really wanted something that would clean the sand. Aquacon (
www.aquacon.com) had the perfect solution. They said the banded bullet goby (amblygobius phaelena) would keep the sand sparkling clean by sifting and eating all the algae. I bought 2 and for 6 weeks the tank looked like a winter wonderland. Then they died within a week of each other. I called Aquacon to order more and the lady tried to dissuade me saying the banded gobies were short lived. I got 2 more anyway, one didn't survive the shipping. That was almost a month ago.
Two days ago I bought 2 beautiful yellow-head sleeper gobies. They'd been at the lfs for over a week, and since I trust this store and I was in a hurry I broke my cardinal rule of asking to see the fish eat first. These guys went into my 40 gallon tank and began sifting sand immediately, even though the huge royal gramma was irritated at having to share his tank.
I'm mad at myself for not doing my homework first, but I might not have learned as much had I done so. I went to your book (my salt water bible), and found that sleeper gobies indeed sift the sand, but not for algae, but for meat. It dawned on me that my poor banded gobies were short lived because they starved to death! No wonder they're short lived--DUH!
So I took some frozen (thawed) brine shrimp plus and bloodworms and mixed them in the sand where the fishes are currently sifting. I don't like this very well, as I'm fighting a nitrate problem (wet/dry system) in the big tank, but it has a large sand star to help clean detritus. The little tank has less good filtration, but I want these gobies to live and prosper.
This morning I was thrilled to see the banded gobie eating food with the rest of the fish. I feel better about him. I'll continue to do everything I can to get the yellow-heads to accept given food.
Thank you for letting me vent. I know you are very busy and my little tirade doesn't need a reply unless you have advice on how to feed this sweet little pair of gobies.
<Very sorry to hear of your losses... and I urge you to offer live brine and mysid shrimp to these gobies (in the absence of substantial interstitial fauna) to sustain/fatten them... And to execute regularly (weekly) water changes (about 20%) really helps to maintain water quality with these bottom dwellers. Maybe decussatus should be suggested as hardier, more suitable species of gobies... Do offer the live foods several times a day.
This is a letter I found at this site:
http://www.wetwebmedia.com/amblygobiusfaqs.htm
Lots of cool info here!
celticsun
