Help!! Diamond Goby eating my snails!

[NL146]

I just got delivery of my snails, including dwarf ceriths and my sand sifting diamond goby seems to think that they're a treat for him. Is this normal? Is there anything I can do (other than get rid of the goby)?

 

[emmanuel]

I dont think it's eating them just moving them around probably away from it's area

 

[johnny roastbeef]

Mine takes them into his 'house' and decorates with them. Funny to watch

 

[anthony27]

yeah I have one and they dont eat them.

 

[NL146]

Maybe I'm mistaken (wishful thinking) but it seems as if he breaks the shells. BTW, the ceriths are great with brown algae. They cleaned off a nice sized rock in one night.

 

[anthony27]

yes they are very good with thatl. also if you have brown algie forming buy some phosband and run that in a reactor

 

[NL146]

Thanks for the idea Anthony

 

[JonnyIce]

i had a blue dot sleeper goby that moved everything around...spitting snails left and right, but didn't actually kill anything...hoping its the same for you.

 

[NYC Joe]

yea my pink spot just moves them around, or in his cave.
sometimes he just puts one in his cave, it crawls out
and put it back in the cave. he does this for about an hour,
its funny, but sometimes i just feel bad for the snail.

Im like run dude! run!
oh, he got ya again.

 

[Awibrandy]

yea my pink spot just moves them around, or in his cave.
Sometimes he just puts one in his cave, it crawls out
and put it back in the cave. He does this for about an hour,
its funny, but sometimes i just feel bad for the snail.

Im like run dude! Run!
Oh, he got ya again.

roflmao​

 

[NL146]

Well it looks like the snails are there and that the goby was just moving them around as everybody has said. The goby was a bit rough on one particular snail that was attached to a dead fish though. Looks like he didn't like the snail being there because even after moving the fish it still tried to detach the snail. I think that one got it's shell broken. It's been busy excavating under my rocks which I thought were buried deep enough. Now I'm thinking I should really not have been lazy and put the rocks in before the sand.

 

[ChickenKing]

Oh man !!! Thought I was the only one.... I just got an order of small blue leg hermits and tiny cerith snails and put them all in front of my goby's rocks so they can spread out. He was doing the same thing, staring at them then lurching at them and grabbing them and spitting them in his house area. I thought he was eating them too....maybe he is just playing ???? Silly Goby !!

 

[bizarrecorals]

just keep the goby well fed, you should be okay

 

[NL146]

Bad news. My tank was overheating because of location so last night I left the cover open. I found the goby on the floor in front of the tank this morning. I had heard that they were jumpers but I thought he had settled in. I'm thinking that he got a little too close to my rbta and got excited. I saw it happen once before, he got stung and was darting around the tank for a bit.

 

[Awibrandy]

Sorry for your loss!