[BigReepher]

I tried an Old Glory (Rainford Goby) in my 20g w/25LR with a 10g sump/fuge. He was a very beautiful fish, but shy. He made him a little home in the sandbed up against the LR. He would push any hermits out of his area and chased off the peppermint shrimp on occasion. He was a character. He sometimes would grab a mouthful of sand and dump it on the zoos. Other than that he was awesome. I loved the heck out of him. He was the only fish in the tank other than a small damsel in the 10g sump/fuge. The tank was 6 months old but the sump had only been added 3 months earlier. He was doing fine but he wouldn't eat anything that I added to the tank, not mysis, not brine w/spirulina, not live brine, not flake, not Spectrum, nothing. I watched him sift sand and pick at the hair algae and rock every morning but never saw him eat anything that I had added. After 2 months he started to look a little slim and frail. He was still picking at the sand and algae but wasn't looking good. I went to the LFS to ask some questions, when I got home Jester was nowhere to be found. Then I noticed a swarm of hermits and my two peppermint shrimp feasting on a skeleton. I was heartbroke, just couldn't believe it. I felt helpless and ashamed that I had let a fish in my care perish. This is my first time talking about this btw. I figured I might get bashed (pre RS) for putting a Rainsford in such a small immature tank. Even though I felt like my sand bed had plenty of fauna. I think it's possible that he had an infection of some sort and was darwanized by the inverts. I hope my ignorance didn't cost him his life. I'm not really sure what I did wrong. A part of me wants to says go ahead and try it but my hindsight tells me to not take chances with living creatures that I may get attached to. I still may try this fish again down the road in a larger more mature tank. It's a judgement call. If you do decide to try it, I hear they fair better in pairs purchased together.