do clown gobies fight?

[jtt]

after I move into my new place, im thinking about setting up a small tank to put in my bedroom, since I am hoping to start a big ray tank I am going to miss my nano, so as far as stocking, I want to stock it with an army of clown gobies. Now, If I put 4 clown gobies, all different colors, will they fight? or will I be good?

 

[mr.clownfish]

i think they would be ok. but you should add them at the same time. i had one clown goby in my 12gal nano and i bought another one so they could breed together instead the one i already had ripped all the new ones fins off and left it looking all deformed. i threw it in my copper tank to help it get better but i found it dead like a week later. so yeah.

 

[hlcroghan]

In a small tank like that you may have a problem. I agree with the comment about making sure that you add them together, so I would order them all at the same time so you can get the different colors. My green and yellow one would chase each other a little bit but besides that nothing, however my tank is a 29 gallon so there you go.
Make sure that you have different places for them to live and you should be fine. They like to live in branching corals. Mine lives in my duncans. My yellow one passed away but he used to like to sit on my mushroom. I also have a lot of totoka rock which is just dead SPS and they enjoy that as a house. SPS are their natural homes. They live, eat and breed on SPS corals. Be aware of that in a tank that small. I would not add any SPS unless you are aware that the gobies will prolly kill it because they eat the polyps off of them. That is their natural diet. Also, breeding is rare but if they did it would prolly kill any SPS coral they laid their eggs on.

 

[lietz06]

do you have to have clown gobies in with corals? or can they live w/o them?

 

[hlcroghan]

They can live without them but they are going to feel really exposed if you don't have some nice hiding places. I think the thing is for me, that I live to simulate their environment as much as I can even if they are in a box. So the totoka rock is a way of giving them that without them killing SPS corals.

 

[oceansidefish]

Personally I have never been able to keep a clown goby more than a month to save my life....I guess thats just my fish...