Are diamond watchmen hiders?

Reeflix · Sep 17, 2023

Title. i havent seem my watchmen at all today, he only came out a little bit 2 days ago, was out a lot yesterday, but havent seen a sign of him. did he die for no reason? he also hasnt eaten expect once the day after i got him. i have a had him for 1 week. it was eating at the store, i take a turkey baster and squirt food by him but has no interest in it. i know this is probably a problem, my ammonia is at 0, anything else that could cause this?

randomfishdude · Sep 17, 2023

They can hide for a month or more sometimes. I would check the floor if I were you. Mine dissaprared about2 or 3 months ago.

Reeflix · Sep 17, 2023

i will check behind the tank.

Reeflix · Sep 17, 2023

randomfishdude said:
They can hide for a month or more sometimes. I would check the floor if I were you. Mine dissaprared about2 or 3 months ago.

have you seen seen yours after this?

Patx · Sep 17, 2023

Mine is always sifting by day and hiding by night...
What other fish do you have in the tank ?
All friendly companion?

randomfishdude · Sep 17, 2023

Reeflix said:
have you seen seen yours after this?

No sadly.
It might have died,Could be hiding where the damsel lives and or the worst of all it jumped out during a time I had the lid off and the cat or dog ate it.

Stevorino · Sep 17, 2023

I had one once that disappeared for months after I got him

I Figured he was dead and forgot about him

Out of nowhere, he builds a hole to his burrow right in the front of the tank… he then spends months sitting on his front porch being grumpy

Months/years later he disappears again

I figure that’s normal until my wife notices a fish in the corner overflow

Yes. The son of a ***** jumped into the overflow!

I try to get him out and he swims his way into the return plumbing and goes ~40 feet into my basement sump

He partially clogs the outlet and I wiggle him out, and I figure this guy is toast…. I leave him in the fuge figuring he is safest left there

He lives in my fuge for at least a couple years. I moved him back to the display eventually and he disappeared again and never saw him.

Those guys are feisty. Be sure to give him a good name and feed enough for him to find scraps. He’ll do the rest

Marquarium · Sep 17, 2023

I've lost a diamond from seemingly no reason at all. All other fish were fine and I never found the diamond bc I assume the crabs got him first. Tank params were fine and everything.

Replaced him and this diamond watchman is an absolute tank, digs caves everywhere and has been going a year plus with no signs of slowing down. They occasionally eat some mysis but not much else, but I assume they get their needs met from the sand.

randomfishdude · Sep 17, 2023

Stevorino said:
I had one once that disappeared for months after I got him

I Figured he was dead and forgot about him

Out of nowhere, he builds a hole to his burrow right in the front of the tank… he then spends months sitting on his front porch being grumpy

Months/years later he disappears again

I figure that’s normal until my wife notices a fish in the corner overflow

Yes. The son of a ***** jumped into the overflow!

I try to get him out and he swims his way into the return plumbing and goes ~40 feet into my basement sump

He partially clogs the outlet and I wiggle him out, and I figure this guy is toast…. I leave him in the fuge figuring he is safest left there

He lives in my fuge for at least a couple years. I moved him back to the display eventually and he disappeared again and never saw him.

Those guys are feisty. Be sure to give him a good name and feed enough for him to find scraps. He’ll do the rest

Man. I've checked my rear overflows of my tank. All I found was a accidental refugeium of brown algae.

Now I'm assuming he died and got ate by fish or jumped out and got ate by the cat or dog.

It's my 3rd goby.
2 of the others in my other tank I had the glory of stepping on them in the morning.

Stevorino · Sep 17, 2023

randomfishdude said:
Man. I've checked my rear overflows of my tank. All I found was a accidental refugeium of brown algae.

Now I'm assuming he died and got ate by fish or jumped out and got ate by the cat or dog.

It's my 3rd goby.
2 of the others in my other tank I had the glory of stepping on them in the morning.

What’s his name?