YWG acting weird.

[Scorchx1245]

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]

video of him.

 

[Nick30G]

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

 

[eatbreakfast]

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

 

[Scorchx1245]

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]

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

 

[Scorchx1245]

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]

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

 

[Instigate]

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?

 

[jabberwock]

My wife likes the AC permanently disabled...

 

[Scorchx1245]

Yeah it was weird but hes been fine now. I've put a password on the thermostat :D but yeah hes still doing fine maybe the hermit or the falco kicked him out for a few.