wheres my goby?

[skipperdz]

any know how long it takes (on average) for your goby to get use to the tank and show his face? i bought a diamond goby on sunday and i ahvent seen him since after i acclimated him and put him in the tank. i have a 55g with alot of rockwork but i cant find him anywhere. i have tops so he didnt get out. anyone have any idea?

 

[jacrmill]

I know its hard, but i wouldnt worry too much yet. test your water to make sure you dont see an ammonia spike, but sometimes it will take awhile.

 

[miaheatlvr]

Originally Posted by skipperdz
any know how long it takes (on average) for your goby to get use to the tank and show his face? i bought a diamond goby on sunday and i ahvent seen him since after i acclimated him and put him in the tank. i have a 55g with alot of rockwork but i cant find him anywhere. i have tops so he didnt get out. anyone have any idea?
I didnt see mike form 10 days,, i thought he died and was eaten by my cleaning crew,, then one day i woke up and saw a little hole under a rock and a giant mound of live sand that he made,,, easily my most entertaining fish..

 

[skipperdz]

great so no worries........yet lol

 

[chankanaab]

I have a green goby and I see him once a month when he decides to hang out. :happyfish

 

[spanko]

I have a high fin goby (Stonogobiops nematodes) and will see him for days in a row then he disappears for days in a row. It kind of makes me mad cause I want to dismantle my rocks to see where he is or if he is gone. Then he will pop up one day. Cute fish but I hate that about them.

 

[skipperdz]

yea if i knew he was this much of a hider i would have got something else

 

[cam78]

look underneath your tank. Sometimes they burrow so deep they will move the substrate down to the bare bottom of the tank.

 

[skipperdz]

ill do that thanks

 

[starfishlover]

We bought a diamond goby on Sunday Too! Saw him Monday . He dug out holes under evry rock in my tank. But havenet seen him since

 

[scotts]

You have to be careful, they are jumpers. I had mine for about a month, then did not see him. I stepped on part of him a couple of days later. I have a glass cover and a canopy on my tank. There is about a 1 1/2 to 2" gap between the glass cover and the back of the tank, but I did not think this was enough for it to get out. Well it was...