missing fish

[alvin]

Hi fellow reefers, season greetings.

I am a beginner for reef fishes and am keeping a 55 gallons FOWLR (Oct 2015) with:

1) 12kg of live rock (3months)

2) 1 Maroon clown fish (2months)

3) 1 yellow tang, 1 sailfin tang (2months)

4) 1 red corris wrasse, 1 fairy wrasse (1month)

5) 1 Maldivian watchman goby, 1 diamond back goby (1 week)

6) 1 hermit crab for cleaning (3months)

I have yet to see my maldivian watchman goby and am wondering if it might be dead or just hiding. Should I be worried or try and lift all my rocks to see if it is alive? I personally do not like the idea of moving my live rocks. When I feed mysis, it doesnt appeal either. So far I have spotted it twice only on the first 2 days.

What should I do?

Marine Enthusiast 

[daveyy]

it is most likely hiding, if you lift the rock and put it down, there is a chance that you might crush him to death. 

so just let it be.

Edited January 4, 2016 by daveyy

[alvin]

Thanks everyone for your inputs. Will just leave him be. If I do happen to see him, it will be awesome!

[Ooozone]

Let natur3 take its course. Patience is the key

[vidios]

I lost my twin spot and shrimp goby while rescaping.  Found the shrimp goby dried but swin spot still nowhere in sight. Almost  5 days already 8(