Hi all. This is my first topic here and I hope you guys can help me out a bit.
I recently bought a Gold Headed Sleeper Goby for my 75 gallon marine tank. This marine community has been running in one form or another for at least five or six years now. I've got 30lbs of live sand and about 60lbs of live rock in the tank. And I see tons of little creepey crawlies all over the place. So I figured the tank's mature enough now to take care of one of these Gobies.
All the Gold Headed Sleepers I've seen in the LFS over the years have been out in the open happily sifting sand and constantly on the go. Mine just hides in the burrow he's dug with just his face peeking out. I've had him for a few weeks and he seems to be staying nice and fat on the pellets and shrimp pieces I throw in there for the Hermits and Serpent Stars. And he sifts through the sand right around his burrow. But nowhere else. You can see a definite ring of about four inches of well sifted sand right around his burrow. The rest of the sandbed is still covered in a layer of algae and all the regular sediment and stuff that settles to the sand over time. Is this normal for them? Is he not moving farther from his burrow than four inches because he's getting enough stuff out of that sand and doesnt' need to graze any farther from home? Or is he just not comfortable in his new home yet?
I recently bought a Gold Headed Sleeper Goby for my 75 gallon marine tank. This marine community has been running in one form or another for at least five or six years now. I've got 30lbs of live sand and about 60lbs of live rock in the tank. And I see tons of little creepey crawlies all over the place. So I figured the tank's mature enough now to take care of one of these Gobies.
All the Gold Headed Sleepers I've seen in the LFS over the years have been out in the open happily sifting sand and constantly on the go. Mine just hides in the burrow he's dug with just his face peeking out. I've had him for a few weeks and he seems to be staying nice and fat on the pellets and shrimp pieces I throw in there for the Hermits and Serpent Stars. And he sifts through the sand right around his burrow. But nowhere else. You can see a definite ring of about four inches of well sifted sand right around his burrow. The rest of the sandbed is still covered in a layer of algae and all the regular sediment and stuff that settles to the sand over time. Is this normal for them? Is he not moving farther from his burrow than four inches because he's getting enough stuff out of that sand and doesnt' need to graze any farther from home? Or is he just not comfortable in his new home yet?
