Lonely Goby?

reefchic

New Member
I had a lovely pair of antenna gobies (Stonogobiops nematodes) with a pistol shrimp; one day I noticed one of the gobies was missing. After a while I figured it was dead. My problem is that I bought another one so the current one would have a friend, because from what I have read about them they always live in pairs in the wild. The first night I brought it home the two seemed to get along. Within 5 minutes the new goby was in the cave with the old goby and the shrimp, but the next morning it was outside the cave. I saw the old goby chase the new goby away a couple of times, and now the new goby lives on the other side of the tank, and my old goby has a big chunk missing from its tail. I think the problem might be they are the same ---. So my questions are how do you --- antenna gobies, and how can I get this new goby out of my tank without tearing my tank apart?
 
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