[FishKid]

i asked Jason at PA.com a week or two ago if he could order me some clown gobys, and he said that he has heard of them being hard to keep, can anyone point me towards some info on them? fishbase has nothing on 'em... (well they have info on 'em but nothing too helpful.

thanks
mark

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[Mikeman]

what I can remember is that they like to be able to sit on corals(in the wild acropara) but if you get a umbrella leather I'm sure it would die over it. I also think that they don't like to be seen very much, but I'm not very sure on thsi info.

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Mikeman

Heros are like muffins when things get hot, they rise to the top.

[FishKid]

i know that they like acros, and i wanted to keep some anyway..

[scubadude]

I just got one for my 20gal reef that Im working on....it doesnt appear to be harming any of my corals and will perch on anything...mostly LR though....My concern is their eating habits, I have heard that they mainly stick to Mysis shrimp....I have tried Brine but it doesnt appear that its eating it ....It will try just about anything I put in the tank but it will spit it out if it doesnt like it....These fish have EXCELLENT character [img]/ubb/biggrin.gif[/img] but they do seem very touchy about their eating habits HTH [img]/ubb/smile.gif[/img]

[petpoor]

Years back I had one and it took a liking to the mucous that an open brain expells occasionally,he also discovered that if you pester it it expels alot more. Needless to say I had to catch him and give him to my brother where he lived in his FO tank for many years.
Tom

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Toms Reef

[olgakurt]

I have had one (yellow clown goby) in my 20g for quite a while. It is the most active and visible fish. It tends to stay perched on a finger leather in the middle center of the tank, but flitters from coral to coral. The leather seems fine and if anything, the constant motion on the leather seems to keep it from skinning over and the polyps appear to stay open more than before.

Of the food fed, my clown goby prefers Prime Reef flake food by Ocean nutrition.

Any two clown gobies *may* form a pair similar to clowns. If you have a pair they *may* nest in one of your corals cleaning a nesting area and irritating the coral by picking/removing polyps in that area.

When I received my goby from FFE, it arrived with a bad case of ick. It has been disease free since introduction though and seems pretty hardy.

HTH

[MtnDewMan]

I have a tank that houses primarly SPS corals and clams. My SPS pieces are pretty small, not large colonies. The clown goby I had was a great fish, but it loves SPS. It likes to hang out on the branches. It would move from SPS piece to SPS piece all the time. It did it so much, my SPS pieces stopped extending their polyps like they use to. Eventually I thought the goby was doing more irritating than good. I believe they are great for a tank with larger colonies so that it has less of an impact on the coral pieces. Strictly speaking from an SPS point of view anyway.

[FishKid]

well, i wont be keeping any of the more sensitive corals until i feel responsible enough... do they do better in pairs? do they really accept mates of different clown goby species?

mark

[skipm]

Just a note on how often the come out to be seen, in my experience it all depends on the color of the goby, for example I had a couple of yellows several years ago that were always out in plain site where the pair of greens that I have now I rarely see but the pair of blacks are out and about fairly regularly. Skip