changing out tanks

[Pan]

Originally Posted by Bob I

I would just move it. I doubt very much if you will have problems. I do that stuff all the time without any problems. BTW how long have you had the Goby I had one for a few weeks, but it just disappeared.

two days i swear i like him the best he is so cool looking, a friend of mine has some, he said they have a habit of burrowing, trying to burrow under rock and it topples over on them. Thats why i was thinking of putting the eggcrate down then rock...

[Bob I]

Well I hope you have better luck than me. Rainford Goby is notoriously hard to keep. It appears they live in beds of hair algae. They appear to eat the zooplankton that grows in those beds. Most of us don't want bunches of hair algae, so they usually don't live very long.

[Pan]

Originally Posted by Bob I

Well I hope you have better luck than me. Rainford Goby is notoriously hard to keep. It appears they live in beds of hair algae. They appear to eat the zooplankton that grows in those beds. Most of us don't want bunches of hair algae, so they usually don't live very long.

well i moved the tank over, woke up and found him dead....so less than a week.
I won't get another one, now that i've read a few places that they are hard to keep. I guess i didn't look long enough...plus who knows if the tank move had anything to do with it.