Clown Gobies

[Samw]

I have a small tank and small Acroporas. During night time, they like to sleep in the small acroporas. So they were easy to catch then. I just left the lights off, put a net in front of them, and use my hand to coax them out of the Acropora and into the net. One time, after I caught one, I put it in a breeding trap and it jumped out of the trap back into the tank the day after.

Most recently, I had to catch them during early evening while they were awake and they were much harder as they hide among the corals. Luckily, I had a large Cactus coral unattached to the rockwork. I turned off the lights and went after them. One at a time, they darted into the cactus corals for safety and I just lift the cactus coral into a net and scooped them out along with the coral. It did take me about an hr of frustration before I figured out that trick though (scaring them towards the Cactus).