Coolest goby
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tommer725
The boy who cried fish
well what is your favorite over all?
scrambler1880
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I absolutely love Yasha gobies... get one (or a pair) with a pistol shrimp and they will form a symbiotic bond whereby the gobies serve lookout duty for the shrimp who actively burrows and tunnels out a home for both to live in...
I have a 110g display and get to see these guys everyday (shrimp not pictured)
I have a 110g display and get to see these guys everyday (shrimp not pictured)
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jlanger
Get busy living...
I really like watching the relationship between gobies and shrimp.
And my favorite goby is the Randall's goby. A very clean looking goby and very well mannered. And having a pair of the gobies is even better. As the female stays closer to the burrow as the male ventures further out on his patrol.
The tiger pistol shrimp is a very active shrimp that will even come out while you watch the tank; but under constant supervision from the goby. It will come out during feeding time and even take food from your hand.
Be warned that the tiger pistol shrimps do move quite a bit of sand and do like to relocate and redecorate the sandbed. Our shrimp will move frags and small clams if it thinks it will make a nice doorstep accent. And if cannot move it, the shrimp has buried some pieces in the sand.
With a 20gal, I think any one of the shrimp gobies paired up with a shrimp would be a great addition.
Good luck.
-JASON
And my favorite goby is the Randall's goby. A very clean looking goby and very well mannered. And having a pair of the gobies is even better. As the female stays closer to the burrow as the male ventures further out on his patrol.
The tiger pistol shrimp is a very active shrimp that will even come out while you watch the tank; but under constant supervision from the goby. It will come out during feeding time and even take food from your hand.
Be warned that the tiger pistol shrimps do move quite a bit of sand and do like to relocate and redecorate the sandbed. Our shrimp will move frags and small clams if it thinks it will make a nice doorstep accent. And if cannot move it, the shrimp has buried some pieces in the sand.
With a 20gal, I think any one of the shrimp gobies paired up with a shrimp would be a great addition.
Good luck.
-JASON
fishmanstan
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Since your tank is smaller, I would say randalls would be a good bet.
No, they do not graze on algae though mine will grab some pieces of algae that float when my foxface is ripping some apart lol. My Randall is paired up with a tiger pistol, they are both out a lot and visible in front of their multiple den openings. They are out a lot more than my yellow watchman goby and candy cane pistol. I love the relationship so to me I will always have at least one pair in my tank.
jlanger
Get busy living...
Agreed. Agreed. AGREED.
The Randall goby doesn't eat any of the nuisance algae in the tank, but will take pieces of Nori that are fed to other fishes. Nor, do they sift the sand. The sand gets "sifted" by the shrimp as it is constantly moving sand around as it creates it's burrow.
I have fine aragonite sand in my tank, so what I did to help out the pair was to place base rock directly on the aquarium glass before adding the sand (or you can wiggle the rock in the sand until it touches the glass). This helps with keeping the live rock structure from sinking into the sand as the shrimp burrows and if those pieces have small arches or caves, the shrimp can use these to help create the burrow. Another thing I do is to add small pieces of rock, dead coral or shells to the tank. The shrimp will find these and use them to help support the burrow.
-JASON
epicfish
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My favorite goby, though I haven't seen them for sale for some time...
Which goby is that??
