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Hi everybody,
Longtime member, first time poster. I have a year-old 29 gallon mini reef with three firefish, a single pajama cardinalfish, a bunch of mushroom corals and zoas, and a mated pair of hi fin banded gobies (Stonogobiops nematodes) with their tiger pistol shrimp symbiont (Alpheus bellulus).
I am having problems with my gobies currently. About two weeks ago, my once-outgoing pair of gobies suddenly became reclusive and skittish. At the slightest movement of a fish into their field of vision, the two would dive into their cave (shared with the shrimp and the occasional firefish), and it seemed to be getting worse by the day. I suspected that the two were mating (although I cannot distinguish the two by gender).
Things reached a head today when I came home from school to find one of my gobies in the front of the shrimp's cave as normal and the other goby clear across the tank looking a bit pale, but with no other external symptoms. I fed it small pieces of jumbo krill until its color returned, but it stayed in the corner of the tank and would not budge.
My question is if I should do anything right now to solve any problems that my goby may be having. Is it about to lay eggs? Is it sick? Or did my pair of gobies just have a divorce?
My ammonia, nitrites, and nitrates are all 0. I am running a month-old Prizm protein skimmer and a fluval 405 canister filter. My light is a compact fluorescent fixture with an actinic bulb, and it runs on a 12-hour cycle. I have a minor flatworm problem that I control via siphoning. The only bully present that I could think of would be my pajama cardinalfish, which has had an attitude problem ever since I bought him (he has killed several tankmates). Finally, I performed a 30% water change yesterday.
Thanks in advance for the help.
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Last Login: 3/1/2012 11:39:34 AM
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| Maybe the firefish started picking on them. I have an 120 gallon reef and 3 firefish and they don't pick on my watchman goby, but in a 29 gallon they could.
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