Hurt goby

[symon]

Hi folks, got a question, I found 1 of my engineer goby this morning seems to be all beatup! I have had him for almost a year now, never had any trouble! He has the white lines all over his face and looks like a lump on his tail! Water is perfect and he was fine last night. He normally hides out under a rock somewhere, but this morning he was laying out in plain view, and breathing very hard, I have him QT'ed for the time being but i really don't belive it's illness related!
Any ideas, can't get a pic of him, i am wondering if maybe he got himself under a rock and it collapsed on him??

 

[ezee]

Symon,
Is there anything else in the tankthat could have done this. Has your LR shifted at all?
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[symon]

Yes i found upon further inspection, a fairly large rock the he likes to hide inder has shifted, Msut have done so from his digging, i think it crushed him!
Poor poor axel, he is still hanging in there, but breathing very slowly! I am sure he won't make it through the night, I sure hate to see him suffer!
Slash will be lonely now!
My tank has been deemed a musical tank, we have axel and slash, eng gobies, simon and garfunkel, perc clowns, lenny my scooter blenny, we had 4 hermits crabs at the beginning, we called them the 4 tops, WE now have many more so we just call them the tops!

 

[hot883]

Originally Posted by Symon
Yes i found upon further inspection, a fairly large rock the he likes to hide inder has shifted, Msut have done so from his digging, i think it crushed him!
Poor poor axel, he is still hanging in there, but breathing very slowly! I am sure he won't make it through the night, I sure hate to see him suffer!
Slash will be lonely now!
My tank has been deemed a musical tank, we have axel and slash, eng gobies, simon and garfunkel, perc clowns, lenny my scooter blenny, we had 4 hermits crabs at the beginning, we called them the 4 tops, WE now have many more so we just call them the tops!
You need to make sure that the rocks that are on the bottom are just that. TOUCHING the glass, not resting on sand or they will shift. Hope he gets better.

 

[kdfrosty]

Ouch, Symon. Bummer. I hope it does ok.

 

[ezee]

Symon,
I hope he recovers. You can also cut one in pvc pipe into little rings and put the live rock on those to help prop them up. Best of luck
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[symon]

Well here is the update, he made it though the night, was trying real hard to get back down to the bottom of the tank, so i let him out of the breeder net, the sucker went straight to where the other goby is and started fighting for that space! I now belive that's what happened, the rock is on the bottom ( looks like it did move slightly from the digging)But i now belive they are competing for the same space!

 

[sweetdawn]

try rearranging the rock to make all new hiding places

 

[beth]

Many gobies will fight. Which is why it is a good idea to only have 1 unless you have a rather large tank.

 

[symon]

I hear ya, And they normally stayed away from each other, LOL apparently axel wanted slash's spot, and got his butt kicked for it!