yellow headed sleeper goby

[rosinsk1772]

i have a question for anyone. i love yellowheaded sleeper gobies, but i never can keep em past 3months. they always get real skinny and die. i have tried feeding them everything. any help out there.

 

[johnb0184]

i hear they do better as a pair

 

[mysis]

i have one as single, but they are hard to keep, and i am having problems with hair algae ATM because of too much food entering the tank.

I think they are worth a miss, unless you have a 5ft + and a good sand bed.

 

[ACBlinky]

These guys have metabolisms like hummingbirds and need an incredible amount of food IME. I kept a pair of sixspot sleepers and found they were a LOT of work to feed. I used a pipette (from a test kit) attached to a 24" piece of rigid tubing to insert frozen foods under the sand. Each fish could easily consume an entire cube in a day; they learned to recognize the tube and would wait for me to deposit the food, then sift it out. If your sleeper was eating out of the water column, I doubt he was getting anywhere near enough calories. As johnb said, they're also best in pairs. I got lucky with mine and managed to find a m/fm pair, they were very devoted to one another. Unfortunately I had a pair of saddlebacks in the same tank that matured into monsters and killed the gobies before I could remove one or the other. I don't miss the sandstorms or the HUGE feedings, but I sure do miss those fish

 

[hgbarwick]

I have a yealloq headed sleeper goby in my 90 gallon and he is doing fine.

 

[rosinsk1772]

hey about your saddle clowns. i have one saddle clown that i've had for 6 or 7 months, my wife wants another one. how well do they do together. i have an anenome thats about 9inches wide i was hoping they would share it

 

[ACBlinky]

All clowns are great in pairs. Check out the clownfish forum for loads of info. Make sure if you buy yours a mate that it's very small so you can ensure it's sexless/male - yours will probably have converted to female if she's been on her own for long, and she'd kill another female.
IMO saddles are as mean as maroons, and they get nearly as large. Mine were cute and cuddly when they were little, then matured into absolute beasts. I loved them to bits, bought them their own setup (had to, they were killing off their tankmates), and then lost them to Brooklynella

 

[Bret61081]

I ytoo think its a hit or miss...mine eats anything I put in the tank...loves froozen but takes spectrum no problems...its good b/c he eats what falls on the sand so none goes to waste...I've had mine for over a year now and it even lived through the hurricanes(2 weeks with no power/no food) with just an air bubbler! so they are pretty hardy fish if you can find a healthy fish!