New Fish- Bumblebee Goby

I brought home some tiny bumblebee goby's today from an out of town pet store. They are hard to come by up here, so when I saw them at $2.49 each I grabbed some. They will reside in my brackish "puffer feeder" tank as tank mates to the 3 mollies. I also picked up about 50 baby snails for 10/$1 (the sales clerks think I am crazy but then I explained that puffers need to eat them and then they worked hard finding junk snails)... The puffers are doing excellent and have become our favorite fish. I am excited about the bumblebee goby's though

I took out all the fiddler crabs and gave them to my neighbor daughter last night. I gave her my old 5 gallon hex last week with a little filter and she turned it into a crab shack. I had thought my crabs were escaping- incidently I found all of them. They like to bury themselves in the sand apparently. However after removing the crab cave I decided I could have some more fishes in there. I added another filter and moved some plants around. I am going to throw in a few large sea shells. I read the goby's like to use seashells as caves if they are large enough.

I will get some pics when I can.

Julie

I love them! I haven't seen them in the fish store near me in a long time. Good luck with them, Congrats, I can't wait for the photos!

All 5 made it through the night alive :) I purchased extra bc/ I figured I would suffer losses.

Maybe a couple will migrate to my puffer tank in a few months or so? I was reading last night that "some" people have had no problem keeping them together. They say the puffers may interpret the yellow and black stipes as danger. If I do it I will keep them apart while they get used to seeing each other.

I will try to get some pics later- they are super small.

Julie

eating a chunk of squid- at least they are eating.

thanks for the photos, congrats

They look nice. Congratz

they look awsome!!!!
you should try and breed em

they look awsome!!!!
you should try and breed em

I wanted to report that they are all still kickin' (bellies look nice and fat).... I was just feeding the fish their late meal and wanted to report that these guys will eat just about everything. I had read they only eat live or frozen foods. Not true. These guys eat flakes, dry shrimp/krill/bloodworms etc.

I also had noticed that many of my nerite snail egg sacks have disappeared. Now I know why- these guys are inhaling them as fast as they can lay them.

I am going to have to rethink the snails- I am glad they are feeding the bumblebee goby's but I wanted them to hatch for the puffers. I will have to "plant" some fresh water snail species in the other fresh water tanks and go that route.

Later,

Julie