Dragon Goby

[joebuckmaster]

Anybody ever heard of a Dragon Gobie? Are they reef safe?

 

[finland]

I did a search and found a brackish water fish and a saltwater fish. Here is a site about the saltwater version. They sound like they are reef safe. http://home.freeuk.net/dawsons/aquar...iftergobie.htm

 

[joebuckmaster]

Thank You.

 

[sistrmary]

I have one, and for the most part, it's reef safe, but it does eat small shrimp when it comes across them. It also digs monsterous holes in the sand under rocks (which is what I was looking for in my FOWLR tank, but dang...he's caved in on himself and my ribbon eel twice now)

 

[ohioballer]

i have a dragon goby. they are definately reef safe, mines about 71/2 inches long have had him for 7 months now. he doesnt bother any of my coral or my inverts actually he lets my cleaner shrimp clean him all of the time. they are the best sand sifters . the only draw back to them they have bad eye sight so during feeding he tends to miss the food sometime but loves to eat guppies. it is hard to find alot of info on them. He coexists with 1 coral banded shrimp, cleaner shrimp, 20 blue legged hermits, peppermint shrimp, 7 green chromis, niger trigger, very lg tomato clown, about 150 mushrooms,assorted leathers and colts. so you see there is some major deversifacation going on in there and he has never had any problems. plus my sand never looked better.
hope this helps you

 

[rockster]

Yeah Dragon gobies are very good at sifting sand. They are peaceful tank mates, actually, mine is a bit timid. He is about 4 inches and has been in my tank for 1 year now. Mine does not bother shrimps. They also accept almost any kind of food. I also noticed that their lenses are whitish instead of clear, looks like cataract.