Diamond Goby...making water cloudy...was this a mistake...???

[Amps Reef Life]

When I first got into the hobby I made this mistake. Mine would do exactly what you are talking about and the clouds would never fully settle. I also kept coral on the sand and near the bottom of the rocks and the goby would dump sand all over them. It was a hard fish to catch but I removed it and took it back to the LFS and I have never bought another one. Great fish if you are looking to keep your sand clean and not keep corals on the sand. I could see this fish being wonderful to have in a FWLRO system.

 

[Dan I]

I absolutely love my diamond goby. Turns over sand like a madman. However, as other said I would avoid the really fine sand. I used carib sea arginine sand and I feel like that was the best option for me overall.

 

[ajwoods86]

It will get better once the finer dust particles gets filtered out, however, it's not going to be like it was before the goby. My goby would scoop sand, swim a few inches up, then just lets all the sand fly everywhere, boy was it messy. LOL. I was gonna get rid of my DW goby due to sandstorm (3 months later), but he got lucky when I upgraded tank, and got the right sand this time:) Good luck!!

I don’t plan to upgrade my tank anytime soon and wanted to know how were you going to go about trading in your goby or rehousing him?