Green Clown Goby Corals?

AC2020x

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Hey, I am thinking about getting a green clown goby and I've heard that they like to be kept with corals. -- I definitely want to get some corals and I have heard that they do well with button polyps and Branching corals. -- I am getting this light really soon so I could get anything that would survive with these. -- http://www.marinedepot.com/ps_ViewI...~idProduct~CU01137~idCategory~FILTFIT53U.html

Does anyone have any ideas of what corals I should get? I think I wanna get button polyps since I wanted them even before I knew about the Green Clown Goby. -- any other ideas? Thanks!!!!
 
Clown gobies perch on corals.. to the point they kill them. Clown gobies and corals should not go together in the same tank IMO.

Here is my picture/proof. Just 1 week after getting this coral my clown goby was killing it quickly. The clown goby was evicted shortly after and the coral has grown to be a monster. The clown goby also made my frogspawn and hammer coral not want to come out due to it sitting on them.

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I hope this doesn't happen with the new Flame Hawk Fish I just got.
 
AC2020x said:
i'm not too worried about the corals and if they get picked at a little or somthing. As long as the Goby is happy, will he still be just as happy without corals? or do they like need them to survive???
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Wow, corals cost a lot more than fish. I want everything to be happy and safe from each other in my tank.
 
I have to agree with Ace here. Not only that, coral tissue and mucus compose most of these fishes' diet in the wild. You may not have a problem with them in extra large colonies, but they shouldn't be put in with acroporids, etc. in most circumstances. Granted, some people don't seem to have quite the same issues with them, but they will do at least some damage. It just depends upon the coral as to whether the damage is visible or even deadly.
 
would they perch on things like zoas, would it bother them to the same degree as the sps?
 
They will perch on everything.. except anemones that I have seen. Like Amphiprion said, it depends on the coral how much it will affect them, but just about every coral will close up when they do, making it so they can't feed or get much light. Over time this will start to have negative effects on anything. SPS it happens very fast, LPS can take a few weeks or months to start to die, and softies even longer, but in the end, it just isn't healthy for the corals to have a clown goby in the tank with them.
 
A dead acropora skeleton would do fine for them to perch in. I don't know if they would move onto other corals or not but I have seen plenty perching in dead skeletons. I don't how you'd get a dead acropora skeleton, but if you could. I've also seen them in largeish finger leather corals.

When diving on the reef once I saw about 5 green clown gobies living in a pink plate branching SPS (a plate with about 2 inch high branches all over). Looked like a family colony. The coral was about 2 feet long and 1 foot wide and very healthy so I'd say the coral needs to be fairly large to support a symbiotic relationship.
 
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