And so the new journey begins...
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I find it intriguing that you can keep the puffers with other community fish. I have read about them with gobies but others say it's hit or miss with other fish. It's one of the reasons I haven't tried them - they are so cute but SO small so to have them alone would be fun maybe in a jungle microcosm tank but it would be more fun to have a few more fish with them.
How often do you feed them snails? Or do you just keep snails breeding in the tank? Sorry for so many questions - I like your tank!
How often do you feed them snails? Or do you just keep snails breeding in the tank? Sorry for so many questions - I like your tank!
Thanks
I think the trick to keeping them in a community tank is to get them as small as possible and to keep them very well fed... a lot of decor seems to help as well to break up lines of sight...
As far as the snail question, i have another high tech planted tank that has pest snails, so whenever i find some i collect them and throw them into my 60G, that way my puffers get a chance to go looking for their favorite snack...
Loving the gobies! My group of 7 stiphodon atropurpureus always entertain me. The males tend to fight when I change the scape up and it can get pretty wild. It never gets past some torn up fins though. Once they decide who gets which territory its peaceful again and they recover.
I've recently become interested in Gobies. I love their behavior and color.
How many do you think I could have in my 16? I already have a Sicyopus zosterphorum, and I plan to have 20 Blue Diamond Shrimp and 20 CRS. The species that mainly interests me is Stiphodon Annieae. They're very colorful, and have only been a species since 2014, which makes them quite rare, another reason why I want a few.
Honestly, im not sure how many one should keep in the tank, the main reason for this is because i have noticed they can be a little territorial with each other...
I mean as far as i can tell they wont physically harm each other, but will sometimes chase another gobie away from certain spots within the tank...
At the moment i think i have around 6 gobies from 3 species inside my 60G tank and its quite peaceful...
The only thing is the gobies may eat some of your very young shrimps if they get hold of them, which may or may not effect your shrimp colony expanding...
I mean as far as i can tell they wont physically harm each other, but will sometimes chase another gobie away from certain spots within the tank...
At the moment i think i have around 6 gobies from 3 species inside my 60G tank and its quite peaceful...
The only thing is the gobies may eat some of your very young shrimps if they get hold of them, which may or may not effect your shrimp colony expanding...
I plan to start each colony with 20 shrimp, so that shouldn't be a problem. I was asking the question because they feed off of the biofilm, and I'm not sure how many my tank cam sustain.
Yeah, i mean thats exactly what i said to the store owner when i got mine as well and his thought was that as long as the tank is well established you could probably keep 10-20 in a 60G easily...
I mean at the store he had easily 50 of them in one very small tank (maybe 12" cube), but not sure how well that would work out in the long run...
So far mine have done pretty well considering i havent really fed the tank much at all, so if were to strictly have a guess, i would say maybe 4 in a 20G depending how densely planted the tank is???
Not a species to keep if you like extremely spotless aquariums. Those are some real knockout Gobies.