Orange spot goby~

[DevIouS]

I checked some web sites for the specs. of the fish, but I'm looking for advice if anyone had experience with them.

Do they only sift sand or do they create sand storms?
Any problems with inverts?

Thanks~

 

[noodleman]

how this goby look? I think i had one before

 

[lfsmarineguy]

There are a few that are called "orange spot" is it the diamond goby ur talking about or the shrimp goby? Those are the 2 most common. The diamond is an awesome sifter and gets pretty big the shrimp goby just digs a small burrow and is a character.

 

[DevIouS]

Like this......but all white with the orange spots.

 

[noodleman]

i had that goby in the pic, digs a little bit, but not a shifter

 

[Tonyscoots84]

if your looking for sand sifting try and find the one i had its all white with a blue neon mark on both sides of his face... all he did was sift the sand..

 

[aaron23]

dragon gobys for sand sifting!!!!

 

[lfsmarineguy]

That is an orange spot shrimp goby I had one for awhile and recently it disappeared. Cool fish, kept mostly to himself until the engineer gobies exercised eminent domain on his burrow and evicted him. Haven't seen him since a week after that.

 

[DevIouS]

Well.....
I did another impulse buy:happysad:

This one was just sifting sand everywhere he went (@ the store).
Just want to make sure he doesn't make storms like those damn engineer gobies.

Some links also said that they may be a threat to smaller inverts.
Just wondering what kind.:scratchch

Want to make sure before I put him in the tank.

BTW...by the looks of it now.....these are JUMPERS!:bigeyes:

 

[noodleman]

thats a shrimp goby alright, yea mine jumped out of my tank

 

[lfsmarineguy]

The only invert they can fit in their mouth would be an amphipod. Sometimes I read the info on fish and wonder where on earth they got it from.

 

[DevIouS]

COOL!
Thanks guys!:spin:

 

[DevIouS]

BTW Tony....
This one does have blue spots on his cheeks..:scratch:

 

[DevIouS]

Wow....
Don't know if the one I have is a sleeper or shrimp goby..

 

[noodleman]

yours is a shrimp goby, sleepers gets pretty big and looks nothing like that

 

[DevIouS]

Thanks Al..

Found the one I have:
http://www.marinecenter.com/fish/gobies/diamondgoby/

 

[noodleman]

ooo thats the one you have?? then its not a shrimp goby, that looks more like a shifter

 

[Deanos]

Phil, be careful, because you've posted 2 different gobies.

Here's the 1st: Amblyeleotris guttata

This looks like the pic you posted.

 

[DevIouS]

Thanks Dean~
Def the last link I posted.
http://www.marinecenter.com/fish/gobies/diamondgoby/

It has the orange line across the body & the blue dots on the face.
All white in color.






BTW:
Let me know what's up

 

[joseney21]

what's up phil, how's it going?? i had one of those (jumped) and it always kept the sand nice and clean....but at the price of a not so clear water column.my friend leo also has one and the guy never stops working....another drawback is that they sometimes dump sand on corals living on the sandbed, when i say dump i mean cover them up completely. they also dig under your rocks so make sure they're stable enough, and all that digging leaves you with mounds of sand everywhere (pretty uneven terrain).