Rye Goby Question

ekclark

Member
Rye,
Imagine for a second I am at your fish shop...after you have emptied my pockest of all I was trying to steal and got past my "your wife is babe" comments--which goby would you suggest for me? I have a yellow tang, coral beauty, tomato clown, chromis, purple fire fish, full load of inverts including shrimp and coral. It is a 125 with about 3 1/2" of live sand in the display and I don't want all my sand critters to disapear. What do you think, better yet, which goby could I order from swf.com that would be good for this? Thanks buddy.
Evan
 

ekclark

Member
Thanks Bang (always an honor to have question answered by Bang), those are great looking little guys. I was also thinking about trying to do the pistol shrimp/gogy thing too, do you think 3 1/2" of sand would be enough or would I need more?
 

bang guy

Moderator
3.5" would be plenty. The Shrimp get really excited when they find a piece of a shell or coral to "shore up the walls" so have some rubble on hand to give to the shrimp. It's a riot to watch how animated they get when they find something bigger than a grain of sand.
 

ozadars

Member
I have a yellow watchman goby and an unidentified clown goby.
Watchman's colors are wonderful. Its body is totally yellow covered w/ small neon blue dots
clown goby is always in the corals
 

ekclark

Member
Wow, thanks waterfaller! None of these guys will munch on my other shrimp (peppermint and cleaners)? I just bought Reef Secrets by Alf Nilson and Svein Fossa and it makes all gobies sound like fierce shrimp preds. It is an okay book, but i would have preferred a little more advanced book.
 

ryebread

Active Member
Hey Evan-
It sounds like you've already got some great suggestions.
As Bang Guy mentioned........I am pretty partial to Clown Gobies. I also like a lot of the Blennies. Lawnmower Blenny, Midas Blenny, Bi-Color Blenny, etc..
Goby choices would probably go to:
Clown or Neon Gobies
4-Wheel Drive Gobies (they will eat sand critters though)
Clown Goby
4-Wheel Drive Goby
 

ty_05_f

Active Member
I love my clown goby always propped up in the corals and hovering around. He is a great little guy.
 
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