Where's my Goby? - Vote

[harlequinfanaticyert]

Hello! We have a mystery on our hands.

My Yellow Clown Goby has not been seen in 2 days. He was reported missing Sunday, last seen Friday evening. I have a 25G AIO, without a lid.

I have a decent amount of rockwork, and most of it has been visually inspected. My sand shows no signs of a recent death. I inspected all AIO compartments, though cannot inspect underneath the return pump. I have 5 red-legged hermit crabs as a CUC, with 2 clownfish as the other companions. All areas external of the tank have been checked, within reason. I only visually inspected part of underneath my bed. I have checked every crevice possible. I do not have an ammonia test to check for a spike.

Please enter your votes! I will post the results once a conclusion is reached. The Goby is either..

Hiding in rockwork, somewhere/somehow, as they do..
Died and was cleaned up by 5 hermits, with no evidence to remain.
Jumped out of the tank and hopped some distance to a remote location.
Jumped into the AIO compartment and is hiding or dead under the return pump.
There is a slim chance it's within the sections between AIO compartments, though with flow and size unlikely.

I hope he/she is ok. Here's a photo for you. This happened the day before my KrakenReef lid arrived.

 

[ZoWhat]

On vacation.... visiting friends in Arizona

 

[AlyciaMarie]

Following this mystery! Do you have any pets that may have cleaned up a carpet surfing incident? If not, my vote is for hiding. My watchman disappeared for a bit of time once. Just when I started getting worried, he reappeared. Hoping for the best!

 

[harlequinfanaticyert]

Following this mystery! Do you have any pets that may have cleaned up a carpet surfing incident? If not, my vote is for hiding. My watchman disappeared for a bit of time once. Just when I started getting worried, he reappeared. Hoping for the best!

Good question! No pets. I was out of the house for a moment and there’s the possibility my roommate saw the fish outside of the tank and threw it away, lying to me to preserve his innocence while protecting our friendship.

He is an honest man, quite unlikely

 

[AetherealKnight]

One of my first fish was a yellow clown goby, the moment he entered my tank he hid under a rock. That was the last time I saw him and that was 7 years ago. I think it’s safe to say that he’s dead.

 

[KrisReef]

Did you shut the pump off to see if it got pulled into the intake?

 

[tbrown]

On vacation.... visiting friends in Arizona

Horrible place to visit right now. We're still over 100 most days...

 

[shakacuz]

CUC 1, Goby 0. circle of life :/.

 

[harlequinfanaticyert]

Did you shut the pump off to see if it got pulled into the intake?

No, I can see the intake grate and would see his corpse

 

[harlequinfanaticyert]

CUC 1, Goby 0. circle of life :/.

Would there be any remains? Could 5 small hermits do this alone?

 

[tbrown]

No, I can see the intake grate and would see his corpse

You'd be surprised... I found my Green Warpaint in the filter socks twice

 

[harlequinfanaticyert]

Horrible place to visit right now. We're still over 100 most days...

Way too hot for a Goby, no way he's alive.

 

[harlequinfanaticyert]

You'd be surprised... I found my Green Warpaint in the filter socks twice

I took out the filter sock and he was not there, only place in the AIO would be the third and final chamber, under the pump itself

 

[tbrown]

No snails, just hermits? I lost a Powder Brown Tang for 3 days and all I found after the third day was bits of his skeleton.

 

[danimal1211]

Some optimism, my tailspot vanished for over a month. While there’s a slim chance it managed to get into and back out of the rear chambers, I still don’t think that’s where it was. Came home one day and he was just chilling like nothing ever happened.

 

[Cthulukelele]

How long had you had the clown goby? They can be terrible shippers and the sad reality is the vast majority not getting regular high quality food don't eat/fail to thrive I'm aquariums

 

[Polymate3D]

I had a yellow clown goby which went into the AiO back filter section over 7 times before he ended up getting ich. Likely from constantly going in there and stressing out!

So that's my guess

 

[harlequinfanaticyert]

No snails, just hermits? I lost a Powder Brown Tang for 3 days and all I found after the third day was bits of his skeleton.

Just hermits, yes. Newer tank (1-month)

 

[harlequinfanaticyert]

How long had you had the clown goby? They can be terrible shippers and the sad reality is the vast majority not getting regular high quality food don't eat/fail to thrive I'm aquariums

I only had him for a week, bought from LFS

 

[shakacuz]

Would there be any remains? Could 5 small hermits do this alone?

not usually, no.