catalina goby Q/A

[buzzbombtom]

ok so they are cold water fish, how well do they do in reefs?

some say that they do well in groups others dont, who is right?


now i have been doing a lot of research, ok about 45 min or so, went on to fishbase and found some info and all the other sites seem to cut and paste from each other so i dont know who is right and wrong.

if you have had one please chime in, let me know the success rate in tanks that are not kept in temperate range, seems to be mixed results. not to come off rude but i would like first hand experience on this, it is easy to give hearsay on a subject,

like its counterpart the blue spot it seems to have people on both sides of the fence, i have seen blue spots do very well in systems that are at 75+.

my lfs has about 6 of them and has been keeping them at 78 for about 3 weeks now, the color seems to be fine the aggression seems to be nill and they eat to boot, so whats the deal are they able to be kept in a reef tank?


***and by able to be kept i mean a life span for 9+ months, a long term guest in a tank. thanks all


thomas

 

[philter4]

What I've found is they don't do well long term in trop temps. I lived in San Diego for 13 years in the 80's and 90's and I collected them on several occasions. IME if I put them in my reefs they lived a few months, but when I kept them in an unheated tank with live rock and lots of sand (the tank was set up for blue spotted jawfish) they did fine until I broke the tank down to move to FL. That was about 2 years and they were in there for more then 15 months with no deaths. They were also with a scyth butterfly that I collected on a trip to the islands off the coast and that is why, along with the jawfish, the tank was kept cooler. This is my only attempts at the fish, but the ones kept cooler lived and the ones in my reef didn't.

 

[palabok]

these guys need COLDER WATER or they will just perish, just like the Garibaldi Damsels!

 

[lil_cheeks]

i almost got one until i found out that they are cold water fish. As far as groups go, i saw them in a 50 or so gallon tank at the Georgia Aquarium and there were about 20 in it. They were the only fish.