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12-30-2012, 07:04 PM
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random goby death
I bought a sleeper goby who looked healthy last week from a lfs and 3 days later it died. I have a perfectly healthy tank with a ton of corals from softies to sps. Tank has been up for 10 months, 35 gallon cube, 15 gallon sump, and all the neccesary equipment. and it has about 3" sand bed. I also have 2 clowns and a coral banded shrimp.
The goby was swimming around from the second I put him in after acclimating him for 45 minutes. The goby didn't just pick up sand with his mouth he would actually dig holes in the sand and under the rocks to the point that the rocks fell over. Could it be possible he disturbed the sand bed so much that something came up? Nothing else was harmed in the tank. I also spotted the shrimp trying to nip at him a couple times every time he swam by the shrimps "hangout" could the shrimp be the culprit? Any ideas? 
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12-30-2012, 07:11 PM
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Sometimes the stress of being caught, shipping, new environment takes a few days to catch up to the fish. It unfortunetly happens no matter what people's efforts are. The shrimp was probably just trying to clean the fish. Mine do it to my fingers everytime I have to move something in the tank. Not sure if I should be insulted or not?
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12-30-2012, 08:00 PM
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360 gallon sps reef, 180 gal sump, bubble king supermarine 300, 4xmp40Wes, 2 x 6215 tunze waveboxes, 4 ghl mitras 360 Reef Tank
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12-31-2012, 03:51 AM
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12-31-2012, 03:55 AM
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I planned on giving him away because of his digging but he decided his fate....
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