Watchman goby questions

[dendronepthya]

1) I saw a nice yellow watchman goby at the LFS today, and I am thinking about taking it home. I am wondering if they deplete live sand beds. The species is Crytocentrus cinctus, and can be seen in TRAv1 p.217. I figure it is more likely to dig one hole and occupy a little territory rather than going out all hours to sift the substrate for food(read: stuff I want to keep).

Let's see if I remember how to post a picture.

2) I am also going to get it in conjunction with a small yellow tang(have to keep the yellow color scheme going here). I don't think the two will fight since they are very different types of fish. does anyone have any experinces that tells otherwise?

Thanks in advance.

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[FOX]

Dendro,

The watchmans generally don't eat much of the live sand fauna. I've had good luck getting them to eat frozen black or blood worms. They seem to love them.

FOX

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[ReefDawg]

IMO, there great! Mins hasnt done any digging. he has his little shelter and dosent venture far from it. He is a little skittish though.

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[DWL]

Hey De; My yellow watchman is the oldest in my tank. He has been there over 5 years. Eats every thing he can catch going by. Does not venture to far from his house and will defend it by a threatning motion to other fish if necc. No other fish pay any attention to him.
Does not eat from the sandbed that I have noticed. He also does not dig but hides under a rock and sort of makes a little hollow. I believe thats why they live with shrimp in the wild as they are to stupid to dig there own houses. I once had a orange spotted diamond and when he dug his house the yellow moved right in beside him. Love at first sight I guess.
All in all a good inhabitant in my tank.
Doug

 

[Doug]

Hi dendronepthya,

I had a really nice yw goby which I never saw eat anything but the foods (flake, frzn. brine, formula one & two) that I fed the other fish. He was somewhat shy and liked to share a cave with my two cleaner shrimp. He was a fairly aggressive feeder and was not shy when feeding time came around though. I do not have a sandbed but I do have crushed coral and still had a very large amount of critters in my substrate and swimming around after the lights went out.

HTH

Doug

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