Who has the oldest clown goby?

[ReeferKimberly]

I had one hitch in on a 70lbs batch of live rock 2.5 years ago. I put in the tank not even knowing he was there. He regularly eats SPS polyps and is the main reason I don't have many. He is destroying a green slimer as I type this.

I have tried the bottle trap, fishing with a hook, catching him in the dark when he is sleeping and he even lives with a 17-18 inch snowflake eel for 2 years who does not eat him.

I am just hoping, honestly, he is approaching old age. I hear they do not live all that long. I assume he is older since he was large when I got him. So I say at least 3-4 years old. Some say they only live a couple years, obviously that is wrong.

What is the longest time you have had a yellow (or green, etc) clown goby?

Die Goby, die!

 

[Paul B]

I have a spawning pair that is over 2 years old but not much. They lay eggs about every week and a half and although they don't pick at the coral, they kill it by all the egg laying. I don't care because I would rather have spawning gobies than acropora as that grows fast and is very common.
Their eggs are in between them, on the acro

 

[ReeferKimberly]

Interesting Paul, I remember reading that If I had a pair spawning I would not mind actually

Just the one is tedious though. Actually since I got the green slimer he is all over it like laying sperm like I used to see discus do. He shimmer/shivers over it about 30 times a day in a slow fashion. Either it is a female and not actually laying eggs because there is no male, or it is a male fertilizing invisible eggs. Either way, he is showing some sort of reproductive behavior since I bought the slimer. He leaves my plating coral alone at least. Slimer is going to be toast though soon, as he also rips out the polyps. I bought the piece as a bit of an experiment. He failed the experiment.

 

[Paul B]

I have been keeping clown gobies for decades and never had a problem, but I know people report that

 

[ReeferKimberly]

By my description, do you have a guess as to which mine is, male or female? And does that sound like the reproductive behavior?

And yes, I just got lucky I had a green and she never bothered a thing. I would love him....cept for his $40 meals

 

[Sugar Magnolia]

I have a green and red clown goby, about 1 1/2 years old. So far it hasn't messed with any of my SPS.

 

[Paul B]

The male and female look the same to me except the female is always pregnant so she is fatter. But I would not say that to her face.

 

[Moort82]

I've got one who i've had for three years and it was two when i was given it by a friend as it ate quite a few sps. I didn't know it but it was added to my tank that contains hawkfish when i was at work, after i'd agreed to have it. I was a little worried but its the daddy of the tank and not bothered by anything.