Good burrowing fish??

[skrappie1]

Wanting to get a good burrowing fish, but now sure what all is out there, any suggestions?? Preferably not a jumper.

 

[mc-cro]

Jawfish are cool. although, after 2 years I had one jump.

fwiw, my wife just bought me one today for my birthday.

 

[skrappie1]

That is cool, i thought about getting a jawfish, but i have had them jump in the past, was at Shedd's Aquarium in chicago this weekend and some some sort of burrowing snakes, they looked like fish and there were a bunch of them, but can't remember the names of them.

 

[Grey Reefer]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9216801#post9216801 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by skrappie1
That is cool, i thought about getting a jawfish, but i have had them jump in the past, was at Shedd's Aquarium in chicago this weekend and some some sort of burrowing snakes, they looked like fish and there were a bunch of them, but can't remember the names of them.

I think your talking about garden eels. A pistol shrimp/goby pair is cool. I had a Tiger pistol and a Candy cane goby together in a 10g for 5 months and then the goby went carpet surfing. I had a glass canopy on top of the tank too. Found him shriveled up on the floor in the morning. Jawfish are pretty neat. I plan on getting one sometime soon. I can't think of much else that makes a burrow.

 

[Blue Chromis]

Do you want a jawfish or a goby?

 

[Grey Reefer]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9216979#post9216979 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Blue Chromis
Do you want a jawfish or a goby?

Jawfish are gobies:fun2:

 

[Spiffyguy]

engineer goby is a good burrowing fish. they get kinda large though and can rearrange some things. Neat looking fish though.

 

[Im14abeer]

Agree with Spiffy.

http://www.wetwebmedia.com/pholodichthyidae.htm

Convict blenny/engineer goby. I've had three for over 2 years. In this time, they've gone from about 2" to about 8" and a little better than 1/2" in diameter at the belly. We've moved three times, they don't care, they just start digging a new burrow. And they'll dig and dig. They will clear out nearly all the space between your rocks. An all around good aquarium fish. As long as your rock is well... rock solid on the bottom. Not the flashiest fish, but have an interesting pattern, and swim like an eel. Forward to the food, and backward to the burrow.

Easy, cheap, and pretty cool. What's not to like about that?

 

[bronxer]

I got two of them. they dug a lovely borrow around 2 large rocks and never come out - unless I feed them, which is by tube. I drop the food into their neighborhood and they come out and gulp it down.

really cool.

 

[keaton]

I love my engineer gobys (2) but they do allot of sand moving.