Hello there,
I would like to make an educational post about the aggression of a Amblygobius Linki.
It has come to my notice that alot of reefers think that an Amblygobius Linki is perfectly peacefull towards other fish except to their own species.
I would like to say that this is NOT true & i will you tell you why in story about my dead wrasse & the probable cuplrit the Linki.
I have a 50g tank wich at the time held 2 occelaris clownfish & a salarias fasciatus.
2 weeks later i decided to add a Leucoxanthus wrasse & a Amblygobius Linki.
First days went by & everything seemed fine, till i found my wrasse swimming around with tailfin damage, weird.. still ate tho, so i thought it might be mechanical damage.
A day later i found my wrasse with EVEN MORE tailfin damage, still ate but had a little trouble swimming (i posted this on R2R forum & Mr Jay Hemdal was concerned the troubled swimming could be something else since wrasse use their front fins way more than their back fins)
Fish still ate, so i kept observing.
A day later in the morning i found the wrasse stuck against the overflow, in first instance i thought it was dead but when i touched it the wrasse swiftly swam towards the sand & dived right in not to be seen again for another day.
A day went by and i have gotten the advice to put the wrasse in a acclimation box for observation, sadly i couldn't find the wrasse so i gave it another day.
The next day i sadly found the Wrasse dead between the rocks.
Not knowing what happend at the time, i took my defeat & went towards my LFS who is VERY respected in the reefing community & told him my story.
The man at the LFS told me that the LINKI might be the problem, i couldn't believe my ears! "But but... they are supposed to be peacefull little buggers?"
Another week went by & i decided to add the last new fish of my tank together with the help of my LFS.
I chose a Centropyge Bispinosa (coral beauty), a Pseudocheilinops ataenia wrasse & a Pseudochromis fridmani basslet.
Those fish are now still alive in my tank but this is where the story gets interesting.
While observing my tank, i noticed the Linki darting towards the Fridmani & the ataenia wrasse whenever they came to close!
Thankfully the Fridmani & ataenia are way to fast & don't fight back at all and the Linki stops chasing them very quickly too.
And to this day the relationship between these fish is still a little wobbly but they seem to get more kind to eachother as the days pass by.
My summary to this story is that a link's goby is probably not always that friendly towards your new fish! Especially when this new fish doesn't back down to a fight!
To this day i still have no proof that the Leucoxanthus wrasse died to the aggression of the Link's Goby but this aggression towards my new fish sparks up that question.
I am open to questions and discussion about this topc!
Note that my main language is not english & i am by no means a specialist fish keeper nor am i a specialist reefer, i have been in the hobby for only 7 months now.
I am throwing this on the forum for educational & informational purposes only.
I would like to make an educational post about the aggression of a Amblygobius Linki.
It has come to my notice that alot of reefers think that an Amblygobius Linki is perfectly peacefull towards other fish except to their own species.
I would like to say that this is NOT true & i will you tell you why in story about my dead wrasse & the probable cuplrit the Linki.
I have a 50g tank wich at the time held 2 occelaris clownfish & a salarias fasciatus.
2 weeks later i decided to add a Leucoxanthus wrasse & a Amblygobius Linki.
First days went by & everything seemed fine, till i found my wrasse swimming around with tailfin damage, weird.. still ate tho, so i thought it might be mechanical damage.
A day later i found my wrasse with EVEN MORE tailfin damage, still ate but had a little trouble swimming (i posted this on R2R forum & Mr Jay Hemdal was concerned the troubled swimming could be something else since wrasse use their front fins way more than their back fins)
Fish still ate, so i kept observing.
A day later in the morning i found the wrasse stuck against the overflow, in first instance i thought it was dead but when i touched it the wrasse swiftly swam towards the sand & dived right in not to be seen again for another day.
A day went by and i have gotten the advice to put the wrasse in a acclimation box for observation, sadly i couldn't find the wrasse so i gave it another day.
The next day i sadly found the Wrasse dead between the rocks.
Not knowing what happend at the time, i took my defeat & went towards my LFS who is VERY respected in the reefing community & told him my story.
The man at the LFS told me that the LINKI might be the problem, i couldn't believe my ears! "But but... they are supposed to be peacefull little buggers?"
Another week went by & i decided to add the last new fish of my tank together with the help of my LFS.
I chose a Centropyge Bispinosa (coral beauty), a Pseudocheilinops ataenia wrasse & a Pseudochromis fridmani basslet.
Those fish are now still alive in my tank but this is where the story gets interesting.
While observing my tank, i noticed the Linki darting towards the Fridmani & the ataenia wrasse whenever they came to close!
Thankfully the Fridmani & ataenia are way to fast & don't fight back at all and the Linki stops chasing them very quickly too.
And to this day the relationship between these fish is still a little wobbly but they seem to get more kind to eachother as the days pass by.
My summary to this story is that a link's goby is probably not always that friendly towards your new fish! Especially when this new fish doesn't back down to a fight!
To this day i still have no proof that the Leucoxanthus wrasse died to the aggression of the Link's Goby but this aggression towards my new fish sparks up that question.
I am open to questions and discussion about this topc!
Note that my main language is not english & i am by no means a specialist fish keeper nor am i a specialist reefer, i have been in the hobby for only 7 months now.
I am throwing this on the forum for educational & informational purposes only.