FYI - Knight gobies eat Pearl Danios....

I AM AN IDIOT!!!! (<<throwing meat to the wolves :cool: )

No, I haven't rethought my fishkeeping policies :D .....but I've now accounted for all of the Danios.

I'm now back up to 4 living Danios. It seems that they choose to either flitter near the top of the water, or hide in the deepest, darkest, out of the way corners of the tank in some plastic plant thickets. The other two are accounted for....one tried to make a break for it thru a 1"x1" opening in the top and ended up on the floor. The other looked like it got halfway into a gobies mouth and was spit out and died from the experience.
 
Wow, I missed my chance to say something...that meat still looks good to this Dawg...J/K, Joe.

I'd never heard of Danios being good hiders, but it looks like a few of them might stay with the Gobies and create one of those serendipitous tanks that few pull off b/c they are way outside the rules, but are pretty darn cool-looking.

Pix...PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE?
 
Nag nag nag. :D

Here's a pic of the overcrowded tank...(GASP!!! more heresy).
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Hey...aren't those all the same fish that have been in there for months??? Don't they look stressed??? :rolleyes:
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Kinda hard to get a good pic of a shy pleco (must be stressed):
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The best I could do on short notice. As you can see, I had to enhance the h3ll out of the pic because he wouldn't come out of the shadows. The rest of the gobies are hiding in the fake root/decoration. EDIT: One came out and posed while I was typing this post.
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The 1st pic was taken a few days ago. The 2nd 3rd an 4th were taken about 15 minutes ago. You can see by the 2nd pic that the Danios have have found each other and don't hide anymore. They stick to the bottom...where they balance the tank nicely. Now they avoid the gobies. :cool:

One of the Danios was almost dinner, but he/she's recovered. And I still have the one Goby with the lack of apetite. It seems that the inside of his mouth is swollen, his jaw seems to be deteriorating and he can't swallow much if any food. I'm doing my best to hang onto him, but I don't think he's gonna make it :(
 
Originally posted by joe schmoe
Nag nag nag. :D
EDIT: One came out and posed while I was typing this post.

One of the Danios was almost dinner, but he/she's recovered. And I still have the one Goby with the lack of apetite. It seems that the inside of his mouth is swollen, his jaw seems to be deteriorating and he can't swallow much if any food. I'm doing my best to hang onto him, but I don't think he's gonna make it :(
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1.) :D Love to nag, as I love to see that tank!

2.) Isn't that always the way of fish? Never posing for you on time...stubborn little critters!

3.) Glad to hear that the Danio has recovered.

4: Definitely Most Important) If you have a quarantine tank available, I would suggest using it for this fish. There is a good book out there called the "Tropical Fishlopaedia" by Bailey and Burgess which will have info on all types of diseases so that you can diagnose and hopefully treat the fish.

Hope this helps, and thanks for the pix, Joe!

~Matthew
 
Don't have a quaratine tank. Don't have room. Either way...this doesn't look like a treatable "disease". I don't know if this is possible, but it looks like either it's a genetic thing - the inside if his mouth is growing, while the rest of his body is not so his throat is gradually being restricted - or if he's been injured somehow. This is the one I reported who's mouth was just gaping. The gaping has reduced, and now he does a lot of "yawning". He'll die eventually...but I'll keep trying to feed him soft food anyways.
 
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I hear you, Joe, sometimes there's just the best that we can do, and, after that, there's nothing. Here's hoping that there's a survivor in that tank ready to prove you quite wrong about his chances.
 
The clamped fins lead me to think that he might be diseased, but they could just be a manifestation of the stress which he is obviously in with that mouth...I'll see what I can find.
 
Not clamped. He'll raise them sometimes, it's just without eating much he just doesn't have the energy. Swimming around is tough too. He's a good candidate for euthanasia...but I've never had the balls to do that.
 
From what I'm finding, some gobies do have their mouths open, but it usually coincides with aggression. I don't think that I can help you any further, and you probably knew that already. Best of luck, and here's hoping for a miracle from the little guy.
 
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