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| Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Deer Park, NY
Posts: 969
Reefer Ratings: (13 (100%) Friends: (21) Images: 36 | Jasper the Blue Dot Sleeper
Here is a little video of Jasper, my Blue Dot Sleeper goby, conveniently named by my girlfriend. He's hard at work on my sand bed, so much so that all the crap that has settled in the past few months has been stirred up and made my water a little cloudy ![]() Movie link: http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/5/...324/Jasper.wmv Heres a pic
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| Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Deer Park, NY
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nope. still wont touch the frozen mysis or formula 2 flakes. I might have to attempt something else. frozen cyclopeese perhaps? or frozen brine?
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| JEDI COUNCIL Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Astoria,NY
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My orange spotted goby is doing the same thing and it drives me crazy messing up my tank.Kicking up sand and it gets sucked in by the powerheads and gets all over the tank.The sand bed is clean though.lol
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| Not "that" Stan Lee! Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Brooklyn
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Try this trick that I've done. Unfreeze the mysis and squirt it in a spot in the sand near the goby. When it goes sifting there, it'll eat some. They might not eat it at first, but they will after a few days. If you want, maybe put some selcon or garlic additive in with the mysis. I know they attract them. | |||
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| Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Deer Park, NY
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I do add garlic, but I will give that a try.
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| Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Deer Park, NY
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Well I had him eating mysis (although most of what he ate would go right out his gills) and live brine soaked in Selcon, but he still got thinner and thinner... And he died today ![]()
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Suffolk
Posts: 2,192
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I have a pink- spotted shrimp goby - I believe shrimp goby and sleeper goby are interchanegable common names - lots of personality. At first he would only eat thawed frozen brine shrimp but over a couple of weeks he gradually started to eat everything else - flakes, pellets, frozen - and comes out more and more, especially when I get close to the tank. Try throwing in some other food when you give him the stuff he will eat and he might come to realize that is food too and start eating it. Edit - Kathy just pointed out that he died. Sorry about the loss. An unidentified little shrimp goby I bought on Friday just died in quarantine too. I left the original post in case it helps others. Last edited by jejton; 09-21-2008 at 10:18 PM.. | |||
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| Rafflemeister Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Barnum Island
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Sorry to hear of your loss Mikey, I know you tried really hard to get Jasper to thrive..RIP ![]()
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