Harem of clown gobies...?
- Thread starter Grandczar
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GL, mine uses a leather coral for his pearch. Now this is my experience with this fish. I purchased 2 yellow coral gobies (gobiodon okinawae), for my 55 gallon tank. Within one minute of releasing them into the tank they were fighting. A few hours later they had taken up residence on opposite sides of my reef tank (this was a 3' 55 not a standrd 4'). The one on the left side of the tank was always the dominate one and would not let more than an hour go by without making sure he went over and chased the other behind the live rock. This same sort of pattern continued for a few weeks and ended when I found the harrased gobie on the floor one day. I would have never guessed that a fish of this size that spends most of its time perched in a small area would consider its territory to be so large.
Steve
Steve
Boy, I hope so. I'm going to try two in my 125, green clown and a Citron. If anyone's had experience with them mixing in larger tanks, I'd appreciate hearing it. I'd hate to lose one just because I wanted more than one
The little green clown goby in my nano chases off the Ocellaris Clownfish, which is about 3 times his size. Fiesty little buggers!
The little green clown goby in my nano chases off the Ocellaris Clownfish, which is about 3 times his size. Fiesty little buggers!
Thats what I was hoping when I bought the 2. I have the same delemma as you two do, I now have a 180 reef and would like to get a mate for my other one. I was reading the other day, I think it was Indland Aquatics, and they had these tank raised with both a single price and a pair price, I don't think that meant a mated pair but it might have. With my situation and Alice's, we would have to get a single and then see if the one we have has decided the entire tank is his. I will try to keep you two informed, please do the same for me.
Steve
Steve
No prob Alice. The pocket expert by Scott Michaels is so useful, for the price you can't go wrong.
Will do Steve but I imagine you'll be updating me, my tank isn't due to be up and running til at the earliest September. The wait is killing me. I've been without a tank for a while now.
Will do Steve but I imagine you'll be updating me, my tank isn't due to be up and running til at the earliest September. The wait is killing me. I've been without a tank for a while now.
They might be little fish but their struggles against each other can be rather colossal
A harem with one male and several females would probably work out just fine, the problem is, trying to get them sexed! I don't know specifically about the clowns/citrons but most gobies/blennies are sexed by the size of the dorsal fin (among other points), the male having the larger but as these fish are so small and getting them to sit still together and display their dorsal fins in unison for comparison its darn near impossible, lol.
I love them though; I have one little green clown goby in my nano and plan on having a few in my 125 when it's ready for new stock.
~Alice
A harem with one male and several females would probably work out just fine, the problem is, trying to get them sexed! I don't know specifically about the clowns/citrons but most gobies/blennies are sexed by the size of the dorsal fin (among other points), the male having the larger but as these fish are so small and getting them to sit still together and display their dorsal fins in unison for comparison its darn near impossible, lol.
I love them though; I have one little green clown goby in my nano and plan on having a few in my 125 when it's ready for new stock.
~Alice
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