Address updates that carry the brackish warning with them
A bumblebee goby move should push the same paperwork to the top of the pile as any fish move, with one difference in how it is written. When you send the new address to the veterinarian, the aquatic shop, and any sitter service, attach the line that this small bottom-dweller may be kept in brackish water, so nobody advising by phone assumes a standard freshwater tank. Update deliveries for food and salt, amend the tank's entry on any landlord permission or contents paperwork with its new position, and make sure the emergency sheet for the new house repeats the water type in its first lines rather than burying it in care notes.
The salinity record is the heart of the goby file
A bumblebee goby file lives or dies by its water record, and a house move is when that record most often goes stale. Write down how the tank is actually kept at the new address: fresh or brackish, the target specific gravity if salt is used, how top-up water is prepared, and where the salt, hydrometer or refractometer, and mixing bucket are stored in the new home. Beside it, record the new tap supply's own hardness and pH, because the starting water changed with the postcode even if the salt routine did not. A helper who reads both entries can mix a water change correctly instead of topping up evaporation with salted water and slowly pushing the salinity upward.
Territory, caves, and the rebuilt bottom layout
A bumblebee goby defends a tiny patch of floor fiercely, and the paperwork should map the rebuilt tank from the goby's height. Note how many shell, rock, and cave shelters the new layout provides, where each goby in a group has settled, and which areas of the substrate stay open sand for sifting and display. A sitter told that a goby vanishing into its chosen shell is normal behaviour will not upend the scape searching for it. Include a labelled photo of the bottom layout in the file, since descriptions of small caves in a rearranged tank are easy to misread under time pressure.
One shelter per goby, recorded honestly
A bumblebee goby file should count shelters the way other files count fish. Record how many caves, shells, and rock crevices the rebuilt tank offers and how that number compares with the number of gobies, because a group short of shelters will settle the argument with fighting a sitter may misread as illness. Add a note of which goby holds which shelter if the group has been together long enough to show settled ownership. That map also protects the fish during any future rescape, since a helper warned in writing will restore at least as many hiding places as the plan lists.
New local contacts for a specialist little fish
A bumblebee goby is not stocked everywhere, so the moving paperwork should identify which shop near the new home actually carries gobies, suitable small live or frozen foods, and salt, rather than assuming the nearest general store will. Refresh the keyholder and backup names for the new address, add socket and tap details for the new room, and file the transport notes from the move, including how long the gobies were bagged and how quickly each one claimed shelter after release. Keeping that specialist record in KinsLe's Pet Passport means the goby's next helper starts from the brackish facts, not from guesswork.