The rhinogobius you’ve shown can be bred in freshwater, they normally go to the ocean but in Hong Kong when they get trapped in reservoirs they can still bred. I used to catch them there
I love my neon blue gobies I got from Dan. Their little salamander faces are so cute. My only complaint is I only see them at feeding time in my heavily planted tank. ❤️
So observation on the Stiphodon gobies in particular for flow preference, I have kept a lot of the atropurpureus species (My Favorite) as well as semoni and ornatus and the tank setup that they seemed to be the most happy / active / visible in was a hybrid tank that had a fiberglass insert with a combination of shallow fast moving sections waterfalls and deep slow moving sections with high turnover, The gobis in this setup would always be out and exploring climbing all over the place and super active plus color up faster and vibrantly than standard tanks with a single water option (Fast or slow only) The insert was from a company called river tank systems that went out of business back in the late 90's early 2k's but would not be too difficult to reproduce with some DIY expanding foam and a little ingenuity or maby a shelf tank that has a shallow top section and a deep drop off etc.... But again having super fast shallows with rock bottoms and deep slow areas with sand those gobis behavior changed so dramatically and became super interactive and my all time favorite fish to keep.
I have 6 different gobies in my 300 gallon acro reef tank and they are some of my favorite fish. I had never seen freshwater gobies until I saw these and they are just as beautiful.
I love my blue neon goby it’s so fun to watch and is always active, sadly I got a female so it doesn’t have the bright blue so I think I’m gonna need to get a male.
my lipstick gobies will eat anything I put in the tank. from frozen to flake and everything in between lol. very Hardy. but I was wondering why my neon gobies weren't showing their neon as much. Great advice from Dan. I recommend dragon gobies aswell 👌. I'm also waiting on annies gobies getting delivered to my lfs but I've ordered them 😆. gobies are by far my favourite fish
This is my experience with gobies: Short lifespan, unable to breed in captivity, very expensive, almost never with those colours as we see online, even after a year in aquariums ... Not so active (but very interesting when active🙂).
@@Summer4infinity Not sure how, their lifespan is around 2 years. I had a cat for 25yrs, but i wouldn say that's all cats average lifespan... Or you are talking about marine neon goby? 😂
@@baltik1715 he could be an anomaly. The others only lived 3 to 4 years, plus most of my pets do tend to live longer than the average lifespan. My cat lived to be 19, and my female Banggai Cardinal lived nearly 9 years (yes, the goby I have is freshwater ~ s. atropurpureus).
@@Summer4infinity That is great. Well there is a lot of factors there... I am from Serbia and these fish cannot be bred in captivity. When they arrive here they are already in bad shape...
@@baltik1715 I could see how that would affect their lifespan. Is it difficult to be in the aquarium hobby in Serbia? I live in a tiny town in the US, but can get a pretty decent selection of healthy fish, I just have to drive a couple of hours away.
It's possible to breed mudskippers and freshwater gobies it's just not very feasible it requires specialized systems to either create a tide or a stream
Do bl8ue neon gobies like live food ie bbs bloodworms chopped and white worms chopped also tubifex ? I have good quality flake and small pellets plus algae guss I just want too mix it up for them. Tia.
Chlamydogobius eremius. Extremely hardy. Extremely easy to breed. Full of character. Disadvantage - short lifespan. So you have to breed them to maintain them. And one batch has something like 50 or more of fry. Fry are big enough to start in microworms and brine shrimp
Some gobies lay their eggs in rivers. That then get washed out to the sea and when they hatch they feed on micro organisms in the salt water. And as they grow they migrate back to freshwater.
I thought they are close to extinct. Those freshwater flounder are native to my country we eat them as food. About 10-15 years ago they disappear never see them in market these day. They disappear very suddenly no one know why.
That makes sense. We don't appreciate what we have I our own backyards sometimes. Also ,there are laws regulating keeping natives which can make it harder.
I don't agree. Hatchetfish make great tankmates and the only ones proven to breed are the marbles, some of the more timid and shortest-lived in the hobby. Silvers can live 5-7 years and I really love mine, as they're model citizens.
Disagree. Unlike reef fish, which are often valued for their rarity, freshwater fish are less monetarily valuable, so it's about numbers. Fisherman have an incentive to manage their habitat in a way that generates large numbers of these fish. And but unlike fishing for food, pet trade fishing techniques need to be delicate because the fish need to survive. This also prevent destructive irresponsible overfishing. Pet trade fishing is almost entirely done by locals, proving income for peoples who can directly protect the habitat, instead of large fishing companies. Yes there are still ethical problems with taking fish form the wild (I absolutely disagree with collecting rare fish). But if you eat fish, that is much, much worse. Not to mention that the pet trade protects habitat that would otherwise be drained for farming.
