I have a Istigobius Ornatus, my first goby and he started taking pellets during acclimation itself. He'll come to me if I peek at the glass and will always try to get food halfway down. Such a great personality and will wander all over the glass.
I had a watchman goby that paired up with an Alpheus shrimp. Unfortunately a Bangai cardinal fish bullied it into hiding nearly permanently. I didn’t see it for years and thought it had died, but when breaking down the aquarium I found it. It looked very pale and was clearly beaten but very alive. I also had a clown goby, which was fun but weirdly during its final days its skin color turned transparent. The Rainford goby was great at picking at the sand and rocks for algae.
sorry to be so offtopic but does anybody know of a method to log back into an instagram account?? I stupidly forgot my login password. I love any help you can give me.
@Hank Cooper I really appreciate your reply. I got to the site on google and Im waiting for the hacking stuff atm. Seems to take quite some time so I will reply here later with my results.
Had a yellow watchman goby paired with my pistol shrimp, but he jumped out while being harassed by a damsel fish. I now have a purple fire fish who seemingly filled his role. Sits in the hole with the pistol shrimp all day long unless there is food in the tank and even then he does not venture out very far.
I have a yellow watchman and a diamond goby yellow is matched with a pistol shrimp they both seem to love pellets and mysis shrimp diamond will also eat nori if it comes close and literally pluck it out of the water column
Can we get more of these videos???? This is so informative for new reefers. I'm trying to put together a info excel sheet for someone and a video link would be great to add!
I have a nano tank and my neon goby has to be my favorite member, my tank is full of shyer fish but he's just social butterfly and has developed a symbiotic relationship with my fire shrimp where they will clean each other, he will even try to clean my hand and arm while I do tank maintanence
Im trying to decide on a goby to pair with a shrimp for my 10 gallon, all I have is 2 clowns so I was thinking of something small- Either a Wheelers goby, orange spotted goby or Yasha goby. All I think are amazing but I just cant decide on one lmao
How deep of a sand bed would you recommend for an engineer goby? Looking at a 60 gal and would love to have one of them. I'm thinking 2" of sand. My other concern would be of course it burrows under the rocks and cause destabilization, but I figured on putting supports on the bottom of the rock to the glass
Hello. Hillary please advise best goby for sand sifting, keeping sandbed clean but the dumping sand to minimal on corals. I know what you said in you video. But i hoping some species are atleast better than other becuase i want gobies and a mix reef tank. Thank you in advance. Dream goby is Valencienna bella.
I’m a huge Gulf of Mexico native fan all my favorite marine wildlife come from there including my naked gobies, they’re really small and pretty amusing to watch I had a beautiful little pistol shrimp with them and watching that symbiotic relationship was a blast and quite interesting but unfortunately my pistol shrimp has recently passed .
I have a yellow watchman gobie.....I bought a pistol shrimp also but it was dead the next day. 😢 😢.... don't know what I did!! Maybe acclimated it wrong idk. I have hermit crabs snails and clown fish ....but he died...
Shrimp are very sensitive compared to the other fish you have. It doesn't take much to kill them off if the chemistry in the tank changes too much or too rapidly. Not sure why yours died (could've been sick on arrival) but definitely make sure your parameters are good before adding.
Hi, purchased a banded goby 5 days ago, but this one doesn’t have a line on its face. Instead has 6 brown dots on both sides of face. Can you identify? Mixed breed? Also has not sifted any sand, bit eats frozen food. Will he start sifting or do some of them not sift? Thanks, Dave
I'm upgrading from a 75 gallon to a 280 gallon. I have a yellow watchman paired with a pistol shrimp. once we go to the 280 can I add another goby like a diamond goby? would they have plenty of room to have their own territory? I would like to have a sand sifting gobby plus my pair.
Always go natural first. Some large water changes to keep your nitrate and phosphate level low, less lighting, and don't overfeed your fish. While doing this, physically remove as much algae as you can from the aquarium. The fact that you have hair algae and cyanobacteria makes me think it can easily be fixed by nutrient and light control.
Ive gone for a new tank now but i want to keep the same live rock. Should I just scrape off what i can and the fight it in the bigger tank or would you start the whole process again??
Ive got an upgrade which is going in the same place so i have no way of starting again tbh. Could i use all the media, live rock (after clean) ? And just fight it all in a bigger arena lol
do u have a video of diseases we'd likely encounter and treatments? it's the one thing forums seem to help most with but it is laypeeps not marine biologist....so, thanks
We're currently working on a fish health and QT series, which will certainly cover common diseases too. Here is a link to the playlist: th-cam.com/video/y6pG_UrAENg/w-d-xo.html More videos will get added to that playlist as they're available 🙂
@@sharabugnanesh3098 It depends . If you can train your goby to eat pellets , then it will eat My yellow watchman goby eat hikari marine s. Actually it was in LFS for 1 month. There these watchman were already eating pellets. So I don't face a big problem. But a carnivorous diet like frozen mysis shrimp or brine shrimp will be a better option. And make sure you are using soaked pellets which can reach at the bottom of aquarium , from where your goby can pick the food . I distract my clownfishes by giving them flake foods , and the same time I use soaked pellets near the goby area. Some of them were eaten by clownfish. But most of them which reach the bottom part , eaten by the goby Or you can target feeding them just like turkey baster or pipe if you want less wastage of food.
I've had gobies with shrimps in all my tanks hi-fin red banded with bulls eye pistol shrimp, orange spotted goby with norm pistol shrimp and a pink spotted goby with a tiger pistol shrimp
Very well done. I have a pink and blue spotted and yellow clown goby. They both have so much character.
I have a Istigobius Ornatus, my first goby and he started taking pellets during acclimation itself. He'll come to me if I peek at the glass and will always try to get food halfway down.
Such a great personality and will wander all over the glass.
I purchased numerous diamond watchman gobies (great jumpers). Currently I have a blue dot goby.
Happy reefing!
I had a watchman goby that paired up with an Alpheus shrimp. Unfortunately a Bangai cardinal fish bullied it into hiding nearly permanently. I didn’t see it for years and thought it had died, but when breaking down the aquarium I found it. It looked very pale and was clearly beaten but very alive. I also had a clown goby, which was fun but weirdly during its final days its skin color turned transparent. The Rainford goby was great at picking at the sand and rocks for algae.
Hi scott from Scotland here. Loved the video you should present videos more often.
I love her videos, not 100% sure if it’s the great info or love her presentation.
I just got my first yellow watchman! So excited to see him pair with future pistol shrimp
I have a Randall's goby, Tiger pistol shrimp pair in my 60 gallon fish only reef tank. They have been together for about 6 years now.
sorry to be so offtopic but does anybody know of a method to log back into an instagram account??
I stupidly forgot my login password. I love any help you can give me.
@Raiden Kobe instablaster :)
@Hank Cooper I really appreciate your reply. I got to the site on google and Im waiting for the hacking stuff atm.
Seems to take quite some time so I will reply here later with my results.
6 years!? That is 2x less than my age 💀
@@Evergreenroblox1 Point being
Had a yellow watchman goby paired with my pistol shrimp, but he jumped out while being harassed by a damsel fish. I now have a purple fire fish who seemingly filled his role. Sits in the hole with the pistol shrimp all day long unless there is food in the tank and even then he does not venture out very far.
Great video 🇬🇧
I have a yellow watchman and a diamond goby yellow is matched with a pistol shrimp they both seem to love pellets and mysis shrimp diamond will also eat nori if it comes close and literally pluck it out of the water column
Can we get more of these videos???? This is so informative for new reefers. I'm trying to put together a info excel sheet for someone and a video link would be great to add!
I have a nano tank and my neon goby has to be my favorite member, my tank is full of shyer fish but he's just social butterfly and has developed a symbiotic relationship with my fire shrimp where they will clean each other, he will even try to clean my hand and arm while I do tank maintanence
I have a yellow clown goby, orange diamond sleeper, fire fish, yellow watchman gobies and they are great 👍.
Im trying to decide on a goby to pair with a shrimp for my 10 gallon, all I have is 2 clowns so I was thinking of something small- Either a Wheelers goby, orange spotted goby or Yasha goby. All I think are amazing but I just cant decide on one lmao
How deep of a sand bed would you recommend for an engineer goby? Looking at a 60 gal and would love to have one of them. I'm thinking 2" of sand. My other concern would be of course it burrows under the rocks and cause destabilization, but I figured on putting supports on the bottom of the rock to the glass
I identified the goby as a pink spotted diamond, still not sifting, but eating
super knowlegdeable. thanks
First Defense worked great when my Yellow Watchman was shedding it's slime coat and acting strange. I feel like it probably saved it's life.
So nice video.
What type of food would you recommend for the yellow watchman? Do you just add the copapods to the tank or try to release them close to the goby?
Hello. Hillary please advise best goby for sand sifting, keeping sandbed clean but the dumping sand to minimal on corals. I know what you said in you video. But i hoping some species are atleast better than other becuase i want gobies and a mix reef tank. Thank you in advance. Dream goby is Valencienna bella.
I had a boxfish for about 3 years his name was apple pie
I’m a huge Gulf of Mexico native fan all my favorite marine wildlife come from there including my naked gobies, they’re really small and pretty amusing to watch I had a beautiful little pistol shrimp with them and watching that symbiotic relationship was a blast and quite interesting but unfortunately my pistol shrimp has recently passed .
Gobys are so cool
Wait... Frank? That's what I named my diamond watchman goby yesterday!
I have a yellow watchman gobie.....I bought a pistol shrimp also but it was dead the next day. 😢 😢.... don't know what I did!! Maybe acclimated it wrong idk. I have hermit crabs snails and clown fish ....but he died...
Shrimp are very sensitive compared to the other fish you have. It doesn't take much to kill them off if the chemistry in the tank changes too much or too rapidly. Not sure why yours died (could've been sick on arrival) but definitely make sure your parameters are good before adding.
My diamond goby is a free swimmer 🏊♂️ loves to eat food while it’s floating.
Hi, purchased a banded goby 5 days ago, but this one doesn’t have a line on its face. Instead has 6 brown dots on both sides of face. Can you identify?
Mixed breed? Also has not sifted any sand, bit eats frozen food. Will he start sifting or do some of them not sift?
Thanks, Dave
I'm upgrading from a 75 gallon to a 280 gallon. I have a yellow watchman paired with a pistol shrimp. once we go to the 280 can I add another goby like a diamond goby? would they have plenty of room to have their own territory? I would like to have a sand sifting gobby plus my pair.
I have a clear whitish goby, maybe 2-3 inches long but not sure its full grown. what type is it?
Is wheeler shrimp goby a sand sifter?
Do all diamond gobies sift sand?
Do you have any recommendations on sand size for a goby?
Can you have a yellow watchman goby and a diamond watchman goby in the same tank?
Diamond Goby in my 165 peninsula.
I have a blue cheak gobie
can we have one video for the shrimp ?
I have a pink spot goby in my 65gal! Great sand sifter! Also have a hi fin goby in my 10gal nano. Should I get a pistol shrimp for the hi fin?!?!
Yes! A tiger pistol shrimp.
Hi, can I ask what you would use for green hair algae and syno bacteria? I'm taking over someone's tank and its very unsightly.
Thanks for the help.
Always go natural first. Some large water changes to keep your nitrate and phosphate level low, less lighting, and don't overfeed your fish. While doing this, physically remove as much algae as you can from the aquarium.
The fact that you have hair algae and cyanobacteria makes me think it can easily be fixed by nutrient and light control.
Turn off lights and lower nutrients, add chemi clean, or add a uv sterilizer.
Ive gone for a new tank now but i want to keep the same live rock. Should I just scrape off what i can and the fight it in the bigger tank or would you start the whole process again??
@@lawrenceskegz781 I’d start over
Ive got an upgrade which is going in the same place so i have no way of starting again tbh. Could i use all the media, live rock (after clean) ? And just fight it all in a bigger arena lol
do u have a video of diseases we'd likely encounter and treatments? it's the one thing forums seem to help most with but it is laypeeps not marine biologist....so, thanks
We're currently working on a fish health and QT series, which will certainly cover common diseases too. Here is a link to the playlist: th-cam.com/video/y6pG_UrAENg/w-d-xo.html
More videos will get added to that playlist as they're available 🙂
Yellow Watchman and pistol shrimp
What sands and sizes are good for gobies?
Does gobi fish eat pellets?
Some Gobies will take to pellet foods!
@@BulkReefSupplywhat about round gobies and sand guppies
What type pellets it will take sinked or floated?
@@sharabugnanesh3098
It depends .
If you can train your goby to eat pellets , then it will eat
My yellow watchman goby eat hikari marine s. Actually it was in LFS for 1 month. There these watchman were already eating pellets. So I don't face a big problem.
But a carnivorous diet like frozen mysis shrimp or brine shrimp will be a better option.
And make sure you are using soaked pellets which can reach at the bottom of aquarium , from where your goby can pick the food .
I distract my clownfishes by giving them flake foods , and the same time I use soaked pellets near the goby area. Some of them were eaten by clownfish. But most of them which reach the bottom part , eaten by the goby
Or you can target feeding them just like turkey baster or pipe if you want less wastage of food.
@@KolkataMarineHobbyist thanks bro
later i gave a try with pillets
They are eating pillets right now
I've had gobies with shrimps in all my tanks hi-fin red banded with bulls eye pistol shrimp, orange spotted goby with norm pistol shrimp and a pink spotted goby with a tiger pistol shrimp
Don’t gobi fish eat zooplankton??
It is called the Okinawa Goby.
My goby ate my royal gramma idk why
AMC go BRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!🚀🌕
Goobies
I have a clown goby but he suddenly die and i dont know why the day before he ate as normal but to the next day he dies why no symptom whatsoever