Clown gobies with SPS?

ToshAlexandra · #1 10-28-2013, 06:32 PM

I previously had a lil green clown goby that I adored, but I only had two small pieces of SPS, a pavona and a bonsai, and he would perch on them all the time and would irritate them, ie the polyps wouldn't be out and generally appeared annoyed. I have about 10 pieces of SPS now and wondered if anyone else had kept them successfully with SPS without them being too much of a nuisance? I'm just in a 28g nano, so probably wouldn't be the same as a bigger SPS dominated tank, but just curious! Oh and also if anyone noticed a difference between the green clown goby and a yellow clown goby based on how they affected the SPS - Thanks!

Proteus · #2 10-28-2013, 07:13 PM

I had a yellow clown gobie. Before I purchased it I ask and researched to be told time and time again it was reef safe. It was in my 180 for two weeks and completely destroyed my red planet and a 8" efflo
Just buy chance he took a ride down the overflow
Never again.

Coasting · #3 10-28-2013, 07:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Proteus

I had a yellow clown gobie. Before I purchased it I ask and researched to be told time and time again it was reef safe. It was in my 180 for two weeks and completely destroyed my red planet and a 8" efflo
Just buy chance he took a ride down the overflow
Never again.

Agreed
Wasn't until I all ready had mine that I found out they munched SPS.
I had a 30g bow, with a few lps other softies and what not, and 1 toonie sized frag of some rainbow monti... so nothing special, little **** munched it down to all of 2 polyps.
So despite how cute they are and how interactive the fish was, never again.

SeaHorse_Fanatic · #4 10-28-2013, 08:54 PM

I got my first clown goby for free from Chin years ago because it was munching on the polyps of his sps and I didn't have sps at the time. So yeah, clown gobies are sps eaters.

ToshAlexandra · #5 10-28-2013, 09:43 PM

Reef safe not so much lol good to know!

ReefHero · #6 10-28-2013, 11:46 PM

I also tried a yellow clown goby with sps....no good. Constantly perched in them and nipped at the polyps. Does make for some neat pictures tho with them sitting in the sps branches. I believe liveaquaria lists them as reef safe but then near the bottom of the write up mentions how they will nip at sps polyps....how is that reef safe I ask? I would say no to anyone looking to keep them with most sps....perhaps a couple sps they may not go after but they seem to like a lot of them lol