YWG acting weird.

Scorchx1245 · Jul 29, 2018

My yellow watchman goby who is normally in his cave, was just swimming around and hiding around the overflow all afternoon. Hes never like this. He did take a wicked poop, but continued to swim up high right below the surface. Did eat a couple mysis pieces. And nori that my foxface was ripping off the clip. He used to attack my hermits and lost a piece of his jaw a year ago. Had a bacterial infection that I treated with furan 2 a year ago also and is a trooper.
I have a falco hawkfish that I saw run at him and he hid in his cave yesterday. Hes 1.5 inches falco is 3 inches.
Ammonia 0
Nitrate 15
Nitrite 0
Salinity 1.025
Calc 420
Dkh 7
Mag 1420
Bi weekly water changes. Tank is 4 months old I've had him for a year.

Scorchx1245 · Jul 29, 2018

video of him.

Nick30G · Jul 29, 2018

Hard to say. I would recommend you get him a pistol shrimp friend, it would probably make him much happier in the tank!

eatbreakfast · Jul 30, 2018

Any inverts that spend time by his cave? Any other bottom dwelling fish?

Scorchx1245 · Jul 30, 2018

Just the usual hermits. Hes just hanging out on the frag rack now. Idk lol he does not like the bottom. Any no other bottom dwelling fish.

jabberwock · Jul 31, 2018

How is the temperature? Maybe it is too cold for him lower in the tank?

Scorchx1245 · Aug 2, 2018

Hovers around 80. Hes gone back to the bottom and is aggressively eating again and acting normal, but I did notice hes eating alot of nori from when my foxface devours it. I honestly think he was constipated lol

Scorchx1245 · Aug 2, 2018

Never goes higher I mean normal temp is 78.6 but when my gf decides to save power and turn of the ac....

Instigate · Aug 2, 2018

I've seen mine swim around a bit like that but I only saw that behavior when he was in QT and only when I was cleaning the tank or had just transferred him to a new tank. I took it as him searching for a home. Maybe he was ousted from his cave by a hermit?