Yellow Clown Goby

[masterswimmer]

Beautiful little goby. Great personality. $12 each

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First pic shows likeliness from LiveAquaria site
Second pic is actual fish

 

[zahner]

is it wild or aquacultured?

 

[masterswimmer]

Wc

 

[aaron23]

:bump: for russel!

 

[masterswimmer]

:bump: for russel!

double L, thanks Aaron .

Russ

 

[aaron23]

i only do that to tease you haha

 

[Zoous]

great small fish. have one in my 10 gal tank.

 

[Savager]

Can you put more than one clown goby in the tank? I saw them from LFS and they look very nice.

 

[masterswimmer]

Can you put more than one clown goby in the tank? I saw them from LFS and they look very nice.

Yes you can.

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[jhale]

yellow gobbies are awesome cute little fish.

I had one in my tank a while ago. it used to perch on the clam and sit on the sps branches. then one day it started picking at the polyps of the acros.
I had to find him a new home. soon after that I discovered I had red bugs.
I always wondered if the goby might have been picking at the red bugs or if it was just a coincidence.

 

[masterswimmer]

yellow gobbies are awesome cute little fish.

I had one in my tank a while ago. it used to perch on the clam and sit on the sps branches. then one day it started picking at the polyps of the acros.
I had to find him a new home. soon after that I discovered I had red bugs.
I always wondered if the goby might have been picking at the red bugs or if it was just a coincidence.

Jon, that's an extremely interesting coincidence. As you know, clown gobies almost always look to live in acros. I'm wondering if there isn't some sort of symbiotic relationship, similar to a commensal acro crab, that would benefit the acro and the goby. :idea:

Russ

 

[jhale]

I'll post it up in the sps forum on rc and see what others say.

 

[aaron23]

i dont think clown gobies pick at the sps... i think they just bother it and host in it.
Here's a nice read with alot of pictures ...
All types of clown gobies. - doesnt really say if they nip at the polyps ;\.... but its a cool clown goby read.
http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2002-10/hcs3/index.php

 

[jhale]

here is the thread on RC

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=840688

 

[scarf_ace1981]

clown gobies will lay eggs on sps which will most likely kill the tissue in that area.(if you have a pair of course) it all depends on the tank conditions whether the sps recover or not.

on a side note, i have a citinis goby and think they are great. i've also converted my 40br into sps and i'm not worried about the goby harming the sps.

feeding the goby regularly will help it not nip @ other things in the tank. mine eats like a pig.

sorry for the hijack. russ

 

[masterswimmer]

Scarf, not a 'jack at all. Thanks for the input. I'm sure it'll be helpful for anyone who might be interested in them.

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[reefman]

do these yellow gobies live in acros naturally? do they bother clams n shrimps?

 

[jhale]

mine would sit on the clam, and the clam did not care.

as for the shrimp, do you know how big the goby's are?
I would be more afraid of the shrimp trying to eat the goby.
they are tiny, like an inch or so. mine had little red cheeks.

 

[Reefer420]

do they live on the pods in your tank, or do they prefer frozen food like cyclopeeze?

I'm not making the mistake of having another scooter blenny incident - he ate all the pods in my 16g and then starved before I realized what was going on! Never really got him to eat cyclopeeze...

 

[jhale]

he ate flake food and whatever else i fed the tank.

I also have a black goby that lives in a birdsnest colony, he also eats whatever i feed the tank. they do prefer frozen meaty food though. it took them a long time to learn to eat the flake food.

they do live in acros in the wild.