New Fish

1bigstud · #1 10-13-2006, 02:25 AM

Quick q, After adding a new fish how long do u go without seeing him till u call it a death??? The reason I ask is yesterday I added a neon goby to my tank. usually when I add new fish to my tank they dont bother to hide and start exploring right away. The goby did the same thing at first but when I came back to the tank a couple hours later it was nowhere to be found today is day 2 and no sign of it. So at what point do I call it a death?

niloc16 · #2 10-13-2006, 02:28 AM

neon goby will find a small hole to call home and it will probably show up sometime. give it time.

Delphinus · #3 10-13-2006, 03:19 AM

I've gone weeks, literally - weeks, without seeing some fish after introducing them. The one that blew me away was my Red Sea Sailfin tang when I first got him. How can you lose a tang in a tank?? But he found a pretty good hiding spot. Couple weeks before he was comfortable swimming around.

Same with fairy wrasses -- man, I never saw my lubbock's wrasse for a solid MONTH. I thought he was a goner for sure, I was sooooooooo depressed, like you wouldn't believe. One day I saw the loser's face poking out. It took him several months to get used to the idea of people looking in the tank. I lost him in an anemone incident.

My newest fish is a potter's angel I got from Willito about 6 weeks ago, and she was pretty shy for a solid 2-3 weeks. Again, could see no trace of her. But she's out all the time now.

Take it as a compliment, you've obviously done aquascaping well enough to give them a good choice of hiding spots.

Hopefully that's all it is. Good luck.

1bigstud · #4 10-13-2006, 06:03 AM

Actually I cant even begin to count how many crevices, nooks, caverns and caves are in my tank. I've got about 100 pounds of live rock in a 77 gallon tank. A couple things that have me worried is the longest any of my fish have been shy for is about a day (bi-colour blenny) and I'm also concerned he may not be getting food, that and theres a chance one of my fish may have taken his attempts to clean the wrong way

1bigstud · #5 10-13-2006, 10:20 PM

Well theres good news and bad news. I found my neon goby this morning he was just barely poking out of a piece of rock(which must have tunnels runing right through the middle cause he would go in one side and pop out the other)!! unfortunatley when he tried to come out and go exploring the 6 line terrorized him back into hiding. I've seen my 6 line go after my clown fish a couple times over the past 6 months or so, but other than that he's pretty chill towards the other fish. I hope he drops the attitude. I am wondering if the neon went to try and clean the 6 line but it felt threatened and decided the best defence is a good offence. Hopefully not.

Beverly · #6 10-13-2006, 10:44 PM

IME, six lines are very aggressive. Had to get rid of mine when it harrassed our pair of skunk clowns so badly they were not allowed to eat.