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Clown goby and sps


Daveluce

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So I picked up 2 clown gobies at the lfs yesterday. The owner, who is well trusted, said they would be fine in an tank with sps. He said they would only perch on them from time to time and all my sps will be just fine...

 

Well, about 15 minutes after acclimating him, he is perching on every single piece of sps I have in my tank, rubbing his body all over them, and even nipping them a few times. I read that hey try to irritate the corals because they eat the slime that comes off.

 

My question is this- will the sps get used to this little bastard rubbing up on them all the time? If not, he will have to go.

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It's a crap shoot with clown gobies. They'll actually clear tissue and use the exposed skeleton as an egg deposition site. If you have large colonies it probably won't make a difference, but if you mostly have a ton of frags/mini colonies I'd personally move them both out. They're neat fish, but situational at best. Best used in large tanks with large colonies or small tanks with no/hardy SPS, imo.

 

That said, they might do no real damage and be fine, you'll hear various accounts going both ways. I'd rather have a pair of neon/tiger/EviOta sp./ etc etc.

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It's a crap shoot with clown gobies. They'll actually clear tissue and use the exposed skeleton as an egg deposition site. If you have large colonies it probably won't make a difference, but if you mostly have a ton of frags/mini colonies I'd personally move them both out. They're neat fish, but situational at best. Best used in large tanks with large colonies or small tanks with no/hardy SPS, imo.

 

That said, they might do no real damage and be fine, you'll hear various accounts going both ways. I'd rather have a pair of neon/tiger/EviOta sp./ etc etc.

Thank you sir. All my sps are larger frags. Every one of them have retracted their polyps. I think I'm going to make a trap and remove them. Too bad since they're reallly cool fish.

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