that's good news. I havent seen him eat in the 7 days I've had him.... trying some frozen mysis today.

I've had mine for weeks and never seen him eat anything. Mysis, pellets, flakes, thet pink crap that you squirt in the tank, nothing. I assume he is eating pods.

Do you notice that he's more active at night? I assume he's eating pods then because he hides when I"m around (5-8pm) and then comes out when I shut the lights out(pod time?).

I dont think yellow clown gobies should be for beginners. i see so many underweight gobies even mine only gets a full belly when i feed it frozen food. They are so small and non-aggressive.

Ive had mine for almost a year now though ^_^

He hides a lot during the day. He is the only fish in my tank right now. I see him at night, but he is never what I would call "active".

Yeah, mines the same way. I just fed him some frozen mysis with the pumps off and once again the moment he sees me he hides in the rocks. Fast little bugger.

This is the best pic I've gotten of him in the week I've had him:

he looks healthy

I am the proud owner of a yellow clown goby and I have to say I love the little fellow, for such a small fish he has a huge personality. I want to do what's right for him so I am hoping to get some expert advice here about feeding a fish like him. Basically, the only thing other than 'pods that he will eat with any enthusiasm is flake food so I really want to find out what the best sort of flake food for a goby is.

hmm... im sorry i dont fed my fish flake food only frozen brine/mysis but i bet if you make a thread of the question in the fish forum you will get an answer

and welcome to the club

I'll probably make a post asking for more information in another few days after I've done some research on my own. At the moment I'm going with the notion that the more meat and less grain/filler type ingredients the better quality the flake so what I have might be acceptable even though it's formulated for freshwater fish.

I honestly didn't want to feed my guy flake food, but it's the only stuff he had interest in. I tried to get the little guy to eat mysis for several weeks and he didn't seem to like the taste. With flake food though he's what I'd consider a very aggressive feeder. He had never seen flake food until put two flakes in the tank on a whim, he's not even supposed to like flake food. Probably I just have a weird little goby. Long term though, I hope to get him on some other, more natural, foods.

Glad to be a part of the clown goby club though, I think I may have found my favorite saltwater fish

Thanks to Nemo Niblets, we have addad a Red Clown Goby to the list!!

Also added Black and White Clown Goby, another vid, and links to but these little guys

Yayy!

Why is the red clown goby difficult to keep?

ARGH!!!

is it normal that my ycg when feeding, nip's at mysis, spits it out and repeats the process like 15 times ???

oops that wasnt suppose to be there, fixed



Yup, the piece of mysis it too big for it

i have to admit an overall love of gobies. I currently have 4 different species in my tank. Here is a pic of my Green Clown goby. I call this pic Taxi Crab

thats cute

I've never seen mine eat anything I feed. I try mysis and pytoplankton (whatever that pink stuff is. Any other suggestions.

cyclope-eeze. best thing for clown gobies imo

Here is a goby you don't see every day, picked it up for $15 CAD, sold as a Yellow goby turns out it is a Half Barred Goby (Priolepis semidoliata)

wow thats odd lol

added new species, the Painted Clown Goby

meh... bump

My yellow clown gobies got eaten.

The only thing mine eats is Omega flake food that I have to crush into small pieces.

Interestingly enough, I added a clown fish recently. While he was eating mysis, I saw the goby swim out and grab some. Either the pods are running low and he is hungry, or another fish makes him fell comfortable.

I have 7 of them in my 30. A mated pair of Yellows, two Blacks, one Green, one Red and I just got a Panda. The LFS I got the Panda from had the coolest Green I've ever seen, It had Red spots on it, nothing like any pattern I've ever seen on a Green. I'm very tempted to pick it up.

I also had two Citrons at one time, but they bullied the others and the Yellows stopped spawning until I removed them.

My green has stripes on the head and spots on the body.

Are citron gobies larger than yellow clown gobies full grown? I've seen 1 at my LFS that was almost 4 inches while my YCG isn't quite 2 inches...

i used to have a green clown goby but it always hid behind a rock until it eventually died

The one I saw had no lines/stripes, the red spots were larger and spaced farther apart with no apparent pattern.



I thoght Citrons maxed out at about 3".

My Citrons were more than twice the size of the yellows, I don't know if they were full grown or not. They also did not claim a territory in the tank, they cruized the whole tank, all of my others have claimed a very small area as home.

Clown gobies rock I like there little screwed up gremlin teeth

I don't have cold water tank, but this guy is awesome looking, I wonder if I can keep him with temp around 80?

Not for long, they don't tolerate tropical temps well.

I wish they would stop bringing them in and make them special order only. I remember when i started in the 80's Catalina's were very abundant and cheap. At least now they are'nt as common and the prices are fairly high for them.

YCG - NEVER EVER AGAIN!!!

I put two in my 45 unknowingly and they decimated about $250 worth of acros. I could never catch them due to the aquascaping. After the acros were gone, one starved I think...and the other continued on eating other food. I finally got him with the siphon tube and gave him back to the LFS.

Don't get a yellow clown goby if you have acros.

Always research before you add anything into your tank...

Where on earth can i buy one? Im in love!! Internet i cant find one anywhere

Anyone got their goby with a six-line? I'm thinking off adding a six-line to my BC29. I have a green clown and a single clown fish in there now. Plus a skunk cleaner.

it should be fine, unless the sixline is aggressive. sixlines can be a 50/50 chance of being mean

Haha ya, for mine its the dam powerhead.

Just picked up a green clown goby for $15 at the LFS who had 10 come in and mismarked down from $20 - no shipping and saving $5 was great. Saw them eat pellets and picked out a healthy looking one - brought him home with his 3 sexy shrimp tank mates and he's eating Hikari-S and Rod's food within 24hrs.

Only problem is I made him too good of a shelter and only see his face or butt sticking out...

Acclimating...


Pico-boo

dont worry. he will soon get more used to the tank and come out more

I was planning on getting a yellow clown goby for my 9 gal along w/a purple firefish. Still fairly new to nano reefing. We have an octocoral, trumpet coral, frogspawn, mushrooms, ricordea mushroom, and zoanthids. Will a YCG do well w/these corals? Sounds like they're also hard to feed. We have 4 different frozen foods: brine shrimp, baby brine shrimp, bloodworms and prime reef. Looks like we have lots of pods in our tank for now (no fish yet... only corals, crabs and snails). So, should I still get one or not?

i say go for it

I had two yellow clown gobys and they both died. They never ate any food i fed them. I fed them flake food and brine shrimp and mysis. They took none of it.

Hikari Marine -S is working well for me - he can even cram 2 in if he tries hard enough. He likes to stalk the pellets where they land or take them from the end of the pipette.

how about breeding?