[saltjunkie]

Golden Head sleeper goby...
i nope he does his job and helps keep my sand a bit cleaner......

i think i need more water flow.. and a few more snails.. but i have near 170 pounds of sand in the tank.. so i dont believe he will destroy my bed......

[philip711]

Good luck with your new fish, there lots of fun to watch.

[saltjunkie]

yeah, they are awsome... but as always .. for the first few weeks i imagine it will take.. i have to get up everymorning and use a toothbrush. or a power head and clean my rocks and some corals.. he has made my sand bed look great... even my friends have asked me if i added more lights to the system, it is so much brighter!

but i still have a dust storm going on in there,,,

[Sueet]

Originally Posted by saltjunkie

yeah, they are awsome... but as always .. for the first few weeks i imagine it will take.. i have to get up everymorning and use a toothbrush. or a power head and clean my rocks and some corals.. he has made my sand bed look great... even my friends have asked me if i added more lights to the system, it is so much brighter!

but i still have a dust storm going on in there,,,

lol, Sounds like it would be fun to watch him work... maybe I'll get one for my dsb 90 ..... If I can find one local, so far nobody has had any of them.

[saltjunkie]

they are all over the place down here,, both of my closest LFS's have atleast 3.....



good luck...
i didnt really want one, as i knew the mess he would make.. but i needed something digging at my top layer of sand.. keping it freshly turned over..ill see if i have before and after pics...

[saltjunkie]

before.. you can kinda see the difference....

[saltjunkie]

here it is now.. i just went out and turned all the lights on.... in the tank.. no flash on the camera.... i guess it is a bad angle...... but you can see the difference..

[saltjunkie]

danged ole silly fish is keeping my tanks nice and cloudy.....

my green stars wont open cause they are covered with silt...

this was a mistake.....


damn....

[Sueet]

Originally Posted by saltjunkie

danged ole silly fish is keeping my tanks nice and cloudy.....

my green stars wont open cause they are covered with silt...

this was a mistake.....


damn....

Wow, I didn't think there was ANYTHING that could keep green stars from opening. Use a paintbrush or turkey baster and brush/blow the silt off the corals. And I would advise getting and running a canister filter or other form of mechanical filter with a fine particle capability, to capture out the super-fine silt, then he won't be able to stir it up so badly.

Or maybe, (this is a guess) something like a sea cucumber, which would ingest the finer grains of sand, and I doubt they'd come out in the same ... texture as they went in?
I know when my cuke .. deposits.... the grains he ingests, it comes out kind of clump-ish.

[saltjunkie]

Originally Posted by Sueet

Wow, I didn't think there was ANYTHING that could keep green stars from opening. Use a paintbrush or turkey baster and brush/blow the silt off the corals. And I would advise getting and running a canister filter or other form of mechanical filter with a fine particle capability, to capture out the super-fine silt, then he won't be able to stir it up so badly.

Or maybe, (this is a guess) something like a sea cucumber, which would ingest the finer grains of sand, and I doubt they'd come out in the same ... texture as they went in?
I know when my cuke .. deposits.... the grains he ingests, it comes out kind of clump-ish.

ha, ive had the cukes for 4 years in there..... but they are pretty slow..... this last time i moved i only found 1.. so i guess i am 1 down.....the past few years i have been crabless... but i am going back to them... just to keep movement on the rocks and such.....



i have 3 frasgs of GSP's.... and i brush them off everyday....... and they still wont open... neither will any of my zoos and i have had some beautiful green(flourescent) and browns... that have all but just gone away since the sand storm....



i have been using a knee high to filter the sand.....

[Sueet]

I wish I could take him off your hands, but the shipping would be far too much for one fish. Put an ad in the sell section, maybe you can sell him to someone local to you?

[saltjunkie]

Originally Posted by Sueet

I wish I could take him off your hands, but the shipping would be far too much for one fish. Put an ad in the sell section, maybe you can sell him to someone local to you?

hahaha.. naw.. im not taking this tank apart again for a few more years.. im usually good for atleast 2.. before i have to break it down for 1 reason or another....