Several days ago, my wife surprised me with a diamond goby, which is on my wishlist. Acclimation went great, and once free from the plastic bag, he was swimming around the tank like he owned the place, unlike some of our others that were a bit shy at first. He was eating a LOT, and doing a great job making the sand I thought was clean even cleaner.
But, we woke up the next morning to find him dead laying on the sand.
Our parms were good, ammonia, nitrate, nitrite, pH, temp, MG, alk, everything. We got a bit of an ammonia spike after he died, but I'm talking about 0.25, which has fallen back down to 0-0.1 (sometimes these color tests are hard to read), and nobody else (we have 7 other fish) seemed bothered by a thing. It's a 55g FOWLR tank right now, but the intent is for a mixed reef, in fact our first zoas are going in next week.
I have a couple of theories, but thought I'd put this out there for the real experts to sound off. These are:
1- He was eating SO much, he just ate himself to death. It almost seemed like he hadn't eaten in weeks, and I suppose depending on where/when he came out of the ocean, how he was contained in between, and how long it took before he went into our tank, that's entirely possible.
2- For whatever reason, he was going to die no matter what.
3- He ate something from the sand that poisoned him.
That's all I got... Thoughts?
Kev
But, we woke up the next morning to find him dead laying on the sand.
Our parms were good, ammonia, nitrate, nitrite, pH, temp, MG, alk, everything. We got a bit of an ammonia spike after he died, but I'm talking about 0.25, which has fallen back down to 0-0.1 (sometimes these color tests are hard to read), and nobody else (we have 7 other fish) seemed bothered by a thing. It's a 55g FOWLR tank right now, but the intent is for a mixed reef, in fact our first zoas are going in next week.
I have a couple of theories, but thought I'd put this out there for the real experts to sound off. These are:
1- He was eating SO much, he just ate himself to death. It almost seemed like he hadn't eaten in weeks, and I suppose depending on where/when he came out of the ocean, how he was contained in between, and how long it took before he went into our tank, that's entirely possible.
2- For whatever reason, he was going to die no matter what.
3- He ate something from the sand that poisoned him.
That's all I got... Thoughts?
Kev