is this guy lazy?

[rbtwo4]

this guy does NOTHING but lay on my monticap or zoo's. and here all along i thought I was the lazy one!
http://i12.*******.com/63wcor6.jpg

[Roger928]

It's what they do. Soooo exciting. I have three yellows and two greens in my 90 and actually enjoy wathing them.

[Mare100]

Oh my gosh.....that's such a cute picture! Looks like he's waiting for someone to bring him a drink and a remote control.

[rbtwo4]

:lol: this is what he does all day! i thought there was something wrong with him/her but when its feeding time forget about it!

[latazyo]

I need to get a clown goby

[rbtwo4]

here he/she is lounging on top of the "armor of god" zoo's
http://i9.*******.com/6ccyd1v.jpg

[rbtwo4]

and yet another on my "creamy center's"
http://i12.*******.com/62nv3t4.jpg

[michaeljames]

it's a rough life being a pampered fish!

[azocean]

Watch out will eat SPS corals I made this mistake know they sit in my fish only tank.

[rbtwo4]

So far I have yet to see this guy even nip at any of my corals.

[Lotus99]

He's sitting there and looking pretty! Isn't that enough of a job? :p

[stoneskid]

Hey if you dont like him, I will take him off your hands LOL

[ACBlinky]

Hehehe yes, he's a bit lazy, but that's what these guys do! I had a little YCG that was lazy until someone came near his fox coral. If he felt his territory was being invaded, he turned into a little pitbull and chased them off - he terrorized a maroon clown that lived in the same tank, he was that ferocious!

Here's Bert - we lost him to a floor surfing incident, I still miss the little guy.

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a21/ACBlinky/Reef%20fish/fox_ycg.jpg

[rbtwo4]

:lol: awesome pic ACBlinky!!! I wonder if I can simpsonize the fella???

[der_wille_zur_macht]

I've never heard of them eating corals, though they will definitely irritate the crap out of corals that don't like being sat on!

[rbtwo4]

I can imagine. He goes to each coral and just lays on them but I think the monticap is his favorite.

[aznlmpulse]

Anyone else have a problem feeding these guys? I've had one starve on me a couple of years ago. I picked another one up a few weeks ago, and he eats, but is really picky about the size of the food. It has to be tiny, or it spits it back out and hides....while all the food falls/gets eaten up by others. Feeding time has gotten very frustrating. I have to wait for him to come back out of hiding before I drop some more in, or he gets nothing at all.

[rbtwo4]

Wow I have no problems with mine. He takes flakes/cyclopeeze and Mysis. Guess I got lucky huh? he attacks the flakes. He'll grab a large flake and hide with it in his mouth kind of funny to see if u ask me.

[coralnub]

yeah I've seen them eat mysis chunks that are half their size

[seapug]

I love those guys, but be careful if you've got small acro colonies. They'll sit in the branches and nip at the polpys. They don't seem to eat them, just irritates them so they don't open. They can be shy so they often starve in tanks with too many other hungry fish. I had one on my first 12 gallon nano-cube that was hilarious. Once I got him eating he became a real chubster.

[rbtwo4]

no acros here whew! but yeah they are a class act thats for sure.

[aznlmpulse]

Maybe it's just me then. I'd love to fatten mine up, but if it's any bigger than a pin head, it'll spit it right back out and go back into hiding. It didn't look its best when I got him, and I had high hopes of making him healthy....Maybe I'll give up on clowns if this one goes as well.

He just looks like he's wasting away. I have to sit there grinding the mysis down to a pulp just so that the clown will eat the tiny specks. Maybe I'll keep him in a specimen cup for a few weeks just to try to target feed him.

what do you guys think?

I'd rather stay away from brine shrimp...I guess I could soak them in some vitamins as a last resort.

I've heard that clown gobies nibble on polyps once in a while during spawning time, but no real damage.

[seapug]

spawning is when they really do damage (they lay their eggs on acro branches), but probably not much of a concern in a typical tank. aznimpulse-- do try some vitamin soaked brine shrimp. It's what got mine eating. Once he fattened up a bit he started eating anything I put in the tank.

[aznlmpulse]

I just might have to... I just hope that this one doesn't grow a taste for just brine shrimp, and nothing else like my last one.

[coast2coast7390]

thats what they do...they actually prefer SPS mostly acros

[rbtwo4]

i feed my fish some garlic pellets too maybe u should try that? i havent seen him actually eat one cus hes so darn fast but maybe its worth a shot.