Dying Gobies (1 Viewer)

[Linden]

I have had a problem with dying gobies for a while now. I think I suspect my LFS has been getting cyanide caught gobies. I currently have a sleeper head goby that is getting thin. This is the trend of the last 4 gobies I have bought here. The time spans of the deaths has been different. My first goby lasted for years. When he died I bought another to replace him (1 year ago). Since then I have had 3 other gobies die a long slow death of getting very thin untill they are paper thin and die. They all eat food, and sift sand. I have another yellow goby that is perfectly healthy as well as a jawfish and several other fish that are all 4-6 years old. I have tried dosing the food with prazipro, but this does not seem to work. Does this sound like Cyanide?? what else could it be? I am out of options....

 

[Raymond]

The sleeper gobies are all hard to keep imo. They shift the sand most of the time in search of food. If you can get it to accept dry of frozen then you should be fine. As for cyanide im not sure. How big is your aquarium?

 

[Linden]

90 gallon. He eats everything I give him: mysis, brine, squid, and mixture of all. This has happened with 3 different species of goby. Sleeper is the current, Dragon before this one and the others have been Diamond.

 

[HongT713]

iv got my golden head sleepr goby for a while now and is still doing good i find its best to keep them with a tank full of live rocks