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Knight goby -- nearly two inches long. Not a real picky eater.
Moderately brackish. In other words, not too much salt.
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Dorsal fin pops up when he feels perky.
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And, he usually feels perkier when kept with other gobies.
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As we said, not a picky eater. This guy loves cichlid pellets.
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Mogurnda sand gobies eat rosy reds half their size. Rowdy rascals.
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They like to burrow in sand. The sand sticks to them.
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Lotsa gobies are Mogurnda whatevers...
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Sleeper goby.
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Same sleeper goby showing where he gets his "sleeper" name.
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Sleeper gobies get off their duffs and mix it up at feeding time.
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You can't always find them in planted tanks.
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Mogurnda sleeper goby probably.
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This sleeper goby insists on hiding behind his filter stem until
forced out.
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Called a water cow because who would buy a lump-size goby?
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Good looking goby once we pried him out with this five-inch net.
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Same guy. Totally different markings. Lunch above right.
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Pretty good-size mouth on these rascals.
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Same guy three weeks later -- looking good.
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Chris says this water cow looks like a "mad cow."
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Pearl gobies at the other end of the size spectrum. Leetle bitty
guys.
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Three weeks later they're a little larger and a lot less blurry.
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Cling-on goby. We still need a good pic of these guys.
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Red-stripe goby. Can't see the red or the stripe. Four other
species in pic.
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Different batch, still no red or stripe.
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We'll keep our eye on these guys.
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In any event, they make good community fishes -- not like some
fish-gulping gobies.
Info from Travis Underhill:
Your red stripe gobies, Awaeous Strigatus, are also called
Candy Stripe (or Candy Cane) gobies. Apparently from South America, they
are burrowers and love sandy substrates. They are territorial against
other gobies. Unsure of their eating habits but I assume live food such
as blackworms would do. You can probably feed them frozen food. They
occupy the lower levels of the tank. Mine I rarely see and so must be
nocturnal. They need brackish water, my salinity is around 1.006 with no
problems. A very shy and skittish fish at first. Haven't had it long and
there isn't much information on the net at all.
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Gold desert goby, 1.5 inches long.
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Another gold desert in the same tank.
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Foot-long water cow.
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