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I have a gold headed sleeper goby. I just got 4 feather dusters. My goby keeps moving them to his cave under a rock. Why is he doing this? Should i leave them there or move them? He takes all 4 of them to his cave! I don't want to damage them by continuing to move them out of the cave. Thanks for any advice !
 

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Welcome to Reef2Reef!!! I’m sure others will jump in soon to welcome you and to help with your question.
 
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I have a gold headed sleeper goby. I just got 4 feather dusters. My goby keeps moving them to his cave under a rock. Why is he doing this? Should i leave them there or move them? He takes all 4 of them to his cave! I don't want to damage them by continuing to move them out of the cave. Thanks for any advice !
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Deferring to others on this behavior.
 
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I believe some gobies like to decorate their den to make it more attractive to mates. How are you placing your feather dusters? I bury mine in the gravel or put them in deep crevasses in the rock. Can you put it somewhere to make it harder for him to move? Also how are they doing once he moves them? If they're still opening up and look healthy leaving them might not cause an issue
 
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My guess would be a supply of supplement food as duster is a filter feeder
 
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I believe some gobies like to decorate their den to make it more attractive to mates. How are you placing your feather dusters? I bury mine in the gravel or put them in deep crevasses in the rock. Can you put it somewhere to make it harder for him to move? Also how are they doing once he moves them? If they're still opening up and look healthy leaving them might not cause an issue
 
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I have a gold headed sleeper goby. I just got 4 feather dusters. My goby keeps moving them to his cave under a rock. Why is he doing this? Should i leave them there or move them? He takes all 4 of them to his cave! I don't want to damage them by continuing to move them out of the cave. Thanks for any advice !
Wow. @SaltwaterLiz .... I feel your pain. I, too, have a sleeper goby. I will just tell you that they are incredibly stubborn and creatures of habit. We named ours Chernobyl because it is intent on picking up the sand and covering my rock like a nuclear winter. I fought with that fish for months... blowing off rock every day. I finally stopped fighting and waved the white flag of surrender and it met me in the middle. Literally..... instead of crop dusting my whole tank by dropping sand into the wavemakers.... yep, it did that.... it started building a sand mountain in the middle. So long as I leave the sand mountain alone, it leaves the rest of the tank alone. You can try moving those feather dusters to a different place. It may just be that it likes the sand wherever you keep putting them. Otherwise, you may just be in for a constant tug of war while it messes with you for sheer entertainment.
Good luck!!
 
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Wow. @SaltwaterLiz .... I feel your pain. I, too, have a sleeper goby. I will just tell you that they are incredibly stubborn and creatures of habit. We named ours Chernobyl because it is intent on picking up the sand and covering my rock like a nuclear winter. I fought with that fish for months... blowing off rock every day. I finally stopped fighting and waved the white flag of surrender and it met me in the middle. Literally..... instead of crop dusting my whole tank by dropping sand into the wavemakers.... yep, it did that.... it started building a sand mountain in the middle. So long as I leave the sand mountain alone, it leaves the rest of the tank alone. You can try moving those feather dusters to a different place. It may just be that it likes the sand wherever you keep putting them. Otherwise, you may just be in for a constant tug of war while it messes with you for sheer entertainment.
Good luck!!
 
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