goby with red mouth

rot_stupid

rot_stupid

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Our sleeper blue dot goby looks like he has been abused. From the front of his mouth to just behind his gills he is all red. He also looks real skinny the past couple of days. I watch him eat everyday but he seems skinny to me. I believe we have live sand.
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My husband has all the readings on our laptop which is at work with him so I will update the reading later.
150gal been set up for about 6 months
livestock:
1- pajama cardinal
1- false perc
1- yellowtail damsel
2- sleeper blue dot gobies
1- sfe
1- long spined urchin
1- electric flamed scallop
we use ro water and do water changes every month 30%
Here are the gobies. I noticed that the other one also started to have the red around its mouth.


 
beth

beth

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What kind of substrate do you have? How long have you had this fish?
 
renogaw

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what are you feeding them and how often? i have a pink/blue spotted goby that started getting the red behind his gills and i upped how much he was eating (mainly the mush of seafood) and it went away. most books i read say goby's need to be fed at least 3x a day.
 
rot_stupid

rot_stupid

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Originally Posted by Beth
What kind of substrate do you have? How long have you had this fish?
We have argonite
 
rot_stupid

rot_stupid

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Originally Posted by renogaw
what are you feeding them and how often? i have a pink/blue spotted goby that started getting the red behind his gills and i upped how much he was eating (mainly the mush of seafood) and it went away. most books i read say goby's need to be fed at least 3x a day.
Ok So I thought it being a sand sifter that he ate what ever was in the sand bed. I know how stupid I must sound but what should I be feeding it? I feed a mix of brine shrimp and phatoplankton to my other fish in the tank. what else should I feed?
 
renogaw

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from reef aquarium fishes:
it does say they sift sand, but also:
sleeper gobies should be placed in a tank that contains a thick layer of live sand. a good portion of the aquarium bottom shold also be free of rockwork. a productive refugium will ensure that sand-dwellinginfaunal prey will continue to populate the tank substrate
your chances of success will increase if you feed these fishes often, at least 4 times a day, with nutritious foods like mysid shrimp, frozen preparations, and fresh seafood.
also:
many individuals become emaciated and perish. this may result from intestinal worms. to deworm a new sleepr goby use a commercial preperation or make own medicated food: add fenbendazole or piperazine at a dosage of 250mg per 100grams of food for 7-10 days.
 
renogaw

renogaw

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btw, im not saying that's what's wrong with your fish nor am i suggesting the medication, just quoting out of a book that i've found insanely helpful. i've found other websites that confirm at least the feeding requirements.
 
renogaw

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just dont put the whole cube into your tank. i've not found any mysid shrimp that didnt have a TON of phosphates in them. i defrost the cube in a little cup of tankwater then pick them out. my goby LOVES them and goes crazy for them. the seafood mush is by far his favorite though.
 
beth

beth

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You can feed it most frozen foods. I'm thinking that it irritated its lip due to digging. Is your sand course or fine (.05 and under particle size)?
It does eat sandbed fauna and also wipes clean bacteria colonies on sand (not the best thing to happen to live sand).
 
renogaw

renogaw

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Originally Posted by rot_stupid
What is the seafood mush? :thinking:
look up in the top faq on making food. shrimp, clam, scallops, etc in a food processor.
 
gnorman

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hows ur fish doing? and also, i noticed you lives on so cal... i was wondering what city and what fish store do u go to? i live in san juan capistrano and have a couple of stores if u want the names. thanks for ur time
 
rot_stupid

rot_stupid

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Originally Posted by Beth
You can feed it most frozen foods. I'm thinking that it irritated its lip due to digging. Is your sand course or fine (.05 and under particle size)?
It does eat sandbed fauna and also wipes clean bacteria colonies on sand (not the best thing to happen to live sand).
We have fine sand.
 
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emolicious12

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hey ur fish looks just like mine.....hmmmmmm....i wonder.....
 
rot_stupid

rot_stupid

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Originally Posted by emolicious12
hey ur fish looks just like mine.....hmmmmmm....i wonder.....
He is all cleared up now. But I have lost one of my gobies.
 
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