SPS with Clown Goby

[thomas_lim]

Hi Folks,

Anyone of you have the experience in keeping clown goby with SPS?

My yellow and green clown goby is biting away my staghorn.

Thought this is reef safe?

Any comments?

Regards,

Thomas

[FuEl]

Clown gobies are generally reef safe, but not SPS safe. They clear the tissue on the SPS such that they can lay their eggs on the exposed part of the SPS skeleton. They continue to peck on SPS even when they are not breeding. It's a habit I guess.

[thomas_lim]

Thanks Bro for the info.

Good thing I had caught them out. Not sure is lucky or not. only 1 casualty(blue tipped staghorn)...

[damienkee]

i experienced that too! IMO, they feed on sps polyps! coz they dun comes up to take any pellets or food i gave. but stay all the time hiding inside the sps's gaps!

[thomas_lim]

You manage to catch them?

What I did was to put their favourite staghorn into a clear plastic bag with the opening in their view. Good thing the staghorn has not been encrust onto the rock.

After an hour+, they decided to go back to that Staghorn and that how I manage to "trap" them.

[damienkee]

You manage to catch them?

What I did was to put their favourite staghorn into a clear plastic bag with the opening in their view. Good thing the staghorn has not been encrust onto the rock.

After an hour+, they decided to go back to that Staghorn and that how I manage to "trap" them.

oh... i took the whole tabletop midway near to the water surface. place my fish net below of the table top (the fella still stay with the table top, didnt escape). bring the table top n net together out from water... (and this fella remain in the net)!

[Achilles Tang]

Not recommended for keeping with SPS corals, although that is their natural habitat!

[thomas_lim]

Thanks all for the advice. Have past the fishes to Bro ShootSimon.

He is happy with the fishes...

Cheers!!!

[aquavista99]

I have a green clown goby...came in as a hitchhiker fish on a large acropora coral. I had the fish since the Summer of 2005 and has not caused problems for me....goes from coral to coral. Really cool fish.

If you look closely at the green acro below, you will see my little green clown goby.

[jamomatt]

Depends on luck sometimes as to how much damage they cause... I used to have one that only kills Millis... all my other corals are left untouched. One day I just took out its home with it inside and dumped the little bugger in the sump where it now resides all by itself. BTW mine is not a clown goby. It's a unicolor gobbiodon but from the shape, looks like same species.

[beaver]

I have a clown goby. Even though I dun keep SPS, it likes to "sit" on my Gonio and prevented it from opening up fully. It also like to disturb the zoos as well. Irritating!