sps safe ?

[yellowtang]

Hi,

is yellow clown goby sps safe? i have one and it seems to nibble on the polyps of its millepora home. So much that there is no more waves of polyps extension from the sps.

Please advise from your experience before i spear it!

Thanks,

[LaW]

it is known that they will irritate sps for abit.

especially you have pairsa, the damage will be more.

and please dun spear it.

all the best,

[yellowtang]

Thanks. The LAW has spoken. Lets see whats other sps reefers say.

rgds,

[yikai]

a pair will lay eggs only on SPS and cause necrosis on isolated parts. with good health, will heal.

the goby is known to occasionally nip on sps too

[yellowtang]

the goby is known to occasionally nip on sps too

Thanks, Lemon. This goby frequently nips on the mille. If he continues to do it,his days is numbered.

I am thinking of introducing an acro crab to chase it away, but where can i get the crab? More often than not, it comes with the sps.

rgds,

[thomas_lim]

Is your milli movable? If it is, you can slowly move the milli to the water surface and put a net below. The yellow goby will swim downwards to the net.

If the milli can't be moved. Try to chase it to another SPS colony which is movable and use the said method to catch it.

Spearing it seem a bad move as this is a living fish. We make a mistake to buy them and let's try not to kill it if possible.

I used this method previously when i mistakenly bought 1. So far, I do seen people successfully kept the goby in SPS tanks but only if the goby started to feed on frozen or pellets. Else your SPS will be the food unfortunately...

[yikai]

yeah please don't kill. remember, its never the lifestock fault. its their natural self. give me if you don;t want. i love clown gobies haha! i have a pair.

[yellowtang]

Thank you for your replies. Ok la, i wont kill it. Its my mistake to buy it and not the clown's fault. I will use Thomas Way to capture it and present it to Lemon, who probably luvs anything lemon yellow. Want a long nose hawk fish? I am trying to capture it too. Pink color ,hor.

Bless you all, kind hearted reefers.

rgds,

[yikai]

Thank you for your replies. Ok la, i wont kill it. Its my mistake to buy it and not the clown's fault. I will use Thomas Way to capture it and present it to Lemon, who probably luvs anything lemon yellow. Want a long nose hawk fish? I am trying to capture it too. Pink color ,hor.

Bless you all, kind hearted reefers.

rgds,

ha no ty. dont want hawkfish. yes i love lemon and lemon yellow

[serravorte]

pretty easy fish to catch out.. just remove the whole piece of SPS out of the water... it will stay inside the mili... then just shake him out and u got it... tt's wat i do previously...

definately not a reef safe fish.. angels are probably more reef safe and yellow gobies...

cheers and safe reefing..

chris shen

[yellowtang]

pretty easy fish to catch out.. just remove the whole piece of SPS out of the water... it will stay inside the mili... then just shake him out and u got it... tt's wat i do previously...

definately not a reef safe fish.. angels are probably more reef safe and yellow gobies...

cheers and safe reefing..

chris shen

Thanks, Chris.

I will shake and rough him out.

rgds,