What and how to feed sleeper gobies

[cicadae]

I now have 4 tank inhabitants: two percula clowns and two golden headed sleeper gobies. That leaves openings for two more small fish in about two weeks.
Now I read that the gobies are hard to feed. They eat the frozen brine shrimp I feed the clowns. What else? Tank is too new for its own copepods. Do I buy them? How often do you add them?
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karen

 

[btldreef]

Golden head sleeper gobies aren't hard to feed. I've never had an issue, they'll basically accept any meaty food, as well as sift through your sand eating both desirable and undesirable fauna. Definitely start feeding a better food to all your fish. Brine shrimp is like potato chips, it'll fill you up, but it's not nutritious. Try Mysis shrimp or Marine Cuisine.

 

[hachiushima]

The Sleeper Gold Head Goby, is known by many names including the Pennant Glider, Yellowheaded or Golden Head Sleeper, or Blueband, Bluestreak, or Yellowheaded Sleeper Goby. Its head is yellow-gold with a sapphire-blue stripe below the eyes, and the rest of the body is off-white.
To be successfully cared for, it should be housed in a 50 gallon or larger aquarium with live sand as the substrate, and an attached populated refugium. A well-sealed canopy should be provided. It rarely will become aggressive towards other fish, but is territorial, and will fight with its own kind unless they are a mated pair.
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[flower]

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Originally Posted by Cicadae http:///t/390629/what-and-how-to-feed-sleeper-gobies#post_3460377
I now have 4 tank inhabitants: two percula clowns and two golden headed sleeper gobies. That leaves openings for two more small fish in about two weeks.
Now I read that the gobies are hard to feed. They eat the frozen brine shrimp I feed the clowns. What else? Tank is too new for its own copepods. Do I buy them? How often do you add them?
Thanks! I do listen to what you suggest!
karen
Frozen foods need to be rinsed before you feed the fish, use a fish net and run cold tap water over it until thawed, I use RO water as a last rinse because I'm worried about hair algae. Invert the net into the tank and the food will release and flow with the power head current and the fish will eat. You need mysis shrimp not brine shrimp.
I have had a few sleeper gobies over the years....They feed from the sand, fortunatly as you feed the fish, some of the food falls to the substrate and the gobie will eat the food from there, and develope a taste for it...then later after it has completely depleated the fauna in the sand it can eat the frozen food it has developed a taste for, and survive.
If it has not developed a taste for the frozen food, it will starve to death when the fauna is gone. Thier bellies will develope a caved in look and they will stop sifting because they can no longer eat, someone told me their bodies digest their own stomach...I have only lost 1 sleeper to starvation.

 

[guoyuanyin]

Originally Posted by Cicadae http://what-and-how-to-feed-sleeper-gobies#post_3460377
I now have 4 tank inhabitants: two percula clowns and two golden headed sleeper gobies. That leaves openings for two more small fish in about two weeks.
Now I read that the gobies are hard to feed. They eat the frozen brine shrimp I feed the clowns. What else? Tank is too new for its own copepods. Do I buy them? How often do you add them?
Thanks! I do listen to what you suggest!
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[flower]

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Originally Posted by guoyuanyin http:///t/390629/what-and-how-to-feed-sleeper-gobies#post_3461061
Originally Posted by Cicadae http://what-and-how-to-feed-sleeper-gobies#post_3460377
I now have 4 tank inhabitants: two percula clowns and two golden headed sleeper gobies. That leaves openings for two more small fish in about two weeks.
Now I read that the gobies are hard to feed. They eat the frozen brine shrimp I feed the clowns. What else? Tank is too new for its own copepods. Do I buy them? How often do you add them?
Thanks! I do listen to what you suggest!
I JUST NOTICED you have 2 sleeper gobies...and they don't fight???? My 90g established tank was not enough to keep a sleeper with enough fauna to survive, and your tank is new. You need to get rid of a sleeper. They get huge...I had one 10 inches long. They feed non-stop and they don't eat copepods like a mandarin...they sift the live sand and eat what lives in it. To keep a mated pair of sleepers you would need an established refugium. What size tank is this?

 

[btldreef]

I have to agree with Flower on their eating habits. They do tend to deplete the sand bed rather quickly, especially in newer tanks.
That being said, Gold Head Sleeper Gobies can be kept in pairs if they're introduced at the same time. I had two in my 40G for quite some time. They're messy though and will throw sand EVERYWHERE, so I got rid of them.