post it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

well, I thought it was with that last post, let me see what I can do..

Here is my rusty goby. And I just bought it too and been away for three days now, wondering how's it doing

thats kewlness.

Nice goby xenia2! Although, it isn't a clown goby. They normally will stay upside down.

nanobuds you're awesome

ookay...

i <3 you

who doesnt

who are you. and why is your avatar one of my pics...

I was almost set on getting a pair of Sharknose Gobies for my NC6, but now I think you've changed my mind!

Those YCGs are awesome.

haha

I just found this thread & had a question
never seen a painted goby for sale
are they rare, where might one find one of those beauties?

They're quite rare. That's my(or was ) painted clown on the front page. I LOVED that guy but no matter what I tried it would not eat and he withered away. I wanted the lfs to bring more in but they said it was a surprise fish and I'd be lucky if one ever came in again.

Great shot.

Black....







Green..... (after eating a bumblebee snail)

Think I found one for sale:

http://www.thatpetplace.com/pet/prod/24610...MzgCJhUM3CNpZk_

My LFS said they would order me one for under $20 my cost.

Aww, no fair, I need one like that again. I must bug my lfs again and see about getting one like it again. I want one like that though("war" paint style) not the regular painted ones.

Call around or better yet stop in to all your LFS and ask if they have a list or a binder where you can write your name and what you're looking for - they'll call you when it's in, no hassle. You could also check any local forums and start a wanted thread.

I will definitely ask LFS to be on the look out for one for me. let you know if I ever see one again & thanks or info Jim

Getting a painted clown soon....



maybe today if it came in w/ my lfs's order.....

awesome. a few weeks ago my LFS has a painted clown goby for sale, but it got killed by the other clown gobies

I wish I could take better photos of my green clown goby. He loves hanging out in my frogspawn and when he's in there you can barely see him.

I recently tried adding a yellow clown goby but he dissappeared after two days and I havent found a trace of him since. I even cleaned my HOB filter and tank and didnt see any remnants.


RIP sunny.
11/20/09-11/22/09

I cant believe how finnicky the GCG is though. When I first got him I would only see him if I sat perfectly still during feeding and if I was lucky, he'd dart out for a piece of mysis. Now he seems to be more comfortable and has a couple of "haunts" that he likes to alternate through.

I"ll try add my pics tonight.

awesome

IME if you add a rock of Halimeda your GCG will slalom in between the stalks and sometimes sleep curled around them.

This is what i did to get GCG to sit still for pics....

1) hold your camera, within sight of the fish, everytime you feed.
2) learn what distance from the cam he is comfortable with.....
3) move SLOW and tanke ALOT of pictures.


"Stick-Up!"
tha Black Clown Goby......













She's under the caulastrea's....

ooo nice. im gonna use the close up of her on the lobo... that is a lobo rite

Yep.

cool. thanks for the pics

np.

always happy to help.....

Alright, I'm going to make another attempt at keeping a YCG. I bought one a few months ago but could never get it to eat and it didn't make it a month.

I just found another one at my LFS and am planning on eventually putting it in my new Picotope when I get it setup. But right now the little guy is in my QT tank (with a SG of 1.010) as it looks emaciated and possibly has ich. So hopefully I can get this guy to eat something in the next month or so. I have on hand Formula 1 and Formula 2 flake, Formula 2 small pellets, Tetra "Micro Crabs" (Cyclop-eeze), and freeze-dried and frozen mysis shrimp. Hopefully it will take to one of these foods and quickly. We shall see...

Here's my little black clown goby. He's the shiznit!

Any tips on getting a YCG to eat?

start with feeding it cyclop-eeze. turn off the pumps, distract your other fish or inverts with food, then spot-feed the clown goby. just spray the food around him and hopefully he starts to eat. it took mine almost 2 weeks until he started eating.

you can also try live brine shrimp

Wow...I disagree with a lot of the advice being given out in this thread. I'm surprised no one has said anything yet. I just saw this thread for the first time tonight.

First, despite what many websites say, I really disagree with classifying clown gobies as good "beginner" fish mostly due to the challenge of getting them to eat at first.

How many you can keep together depends on the tank size. In smaller tanks they should be kept alone or in mated pairs, but in larger tanks, such as a 55g, I've never had any issues with keeping like 10-15+ together. In nature they live in groups of 10-20. Clown gobies can change their sex. When two males are paired, the smaller male becomes the female and when two females are paired, the larger of the two becomes the male. Additionally I have never had issues with mixing different types of clown gobies. I've seen greens, yellows, and blacks, kept together in small tanks with no issues and used to have a green and yellow together in one of my old tanks.

I really would not recommend feeding clown gobies blood worms. They aren't very nutritious and is not a natural food source for them. Clown gobies are planktivores, so yes, the cyclopeeze would be a good option in addition to brine shrimp and if you are going to feed mysis, chop it into smaller pieces or get "mini-mysis" which is made by the company H2O life I believe.



Are you serious? NEVER FLICK A FISH or even flick at them. That is very stressful for them.



I don' think you can say they usually starve just because they are used to feeding only on sps polyps, as that is not necessarily the truth. They eat meaty foods (plankton) in the wild as well sps polyps.The main reason clown gobies starve in tanks is due to the fact that by the time they get to the fish store, they are so emancipated and stressed out that they wont eat. People buy them unsuspecting and then suddenly the goby dies a few days to a week later. Another reason to always ask a fish store employee to feed a fish so you can observe it eating before you buy it.

Clown goby reproduction in captivity is not rare, they do it all the time. It's just not easy, as is it with any marine fish, to raise the fry.

Also, please don't tell people to buy fish at Aqua Con. Their website is littered with inaccurate horrible advice. Not to mention, a simple search of the vendor & trader feedback forum will give you plenty of reason to go somewhere else.



Absolutely false. Clown gobies are not immune to anemones and the anemone will sting, kill, and eat the goby if it attempts to host it. This is one thing to be very aware of when putting clown gobies in a tank with anemones. Their love for perching often gets them killed with an anemone in the tank.



This thread needs some work and if you're going to give others advice, please make sure you know what you're talking about. Just posting a bunch of stuff you've rephrased from other fish sites is not a substitute for having years of hands on experience with these fish.

Potentially bad news--my Green Clown of three weeks has been sporting white spots and somewhat tattered fins the last week or so. He's always ate since day one (enriched brine shrimp) and besides the mass amount of white spots and lumps he seems pretty much normal and is still eating. My experience with ich infected fish is that they don't or won't eat and are lethargic which doesn't describe this fish. Early this week the spots were gone but now they're back. The red firefish in the tank remains unaffected. initally I thought it was just sand stuck to his body under his mucus layer but i don't know...almost seemed as if he was peeling as well. last night he see, pale green and was loosing coloration--this was right before the lights go out. I attributed this to the fact that he's been hanging out on the mushrooms and getting slightly stung but i doubt it.

Help!

In the wild, they (or at least some species) depend mainly on sps polyps. You can see here, under Gobiodon citrinus, that SPS polyps make up nearly all of their food (note the diets of other species like G. rivulatus):
http://www.um.u-tokyo.ac.jp/publish_db/Bul...25/no25004.html

do you mind if i use the info you gave me in the first post?

Can I put a green clown goby and yellow clown goby in the same 29 gallon? Sorry if already discussed. Thanks.

its possible, but there is a large chance they will fight

I think there is some one here who has both in a 12g.

I want a green clown, yellow clown, and black clown for my reef. I have the green one.

I love this Gobiodon sp.


Gobiodon rivulatus

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My black clown goby sitting in his lunch box.

I guess third times a charm. This is my third paint and this one is doing great. I could not get the first two I had to eat no matter what I tried but this guy loves cyclopeeze.

Peek-a-boo

My first yellow clown goby jumped out of the tank.

My second one was quarintined with a Midas Blenny for 6 weeks in hyposalinity. They were best buds.

Halfway through the hyposalinty it started to look VERY skinny, i kept trying different foods. The clown goby seemed interested but never really went for it. In the end I got him to eat New Spectrum pellets (the very small ones) and Formula 1 frozen mushh stuff.

Put him in the tank two days ago and he has been playing in my elegance coral since. I have pictures ill post soon, but its almost as if he thinks he is a Clown fish in an Anemone... he actually wiggles around in it and stuff. Hope his small size doesnt bother the elegance coral too much though

I bought a panda goby for my six gallon nano cube. I got her on Dec. 9. I saw her eating the next morning, she hid for a day and a half, she reappeared, lived underneath my flower leather soft coral for a couple of weeks (I saw her move around to different positions underneath it) I saw her come out and eat from the algae on the walls and I have not seen her since. Today I moved the rock that the flower leather soft coral is on (the only coral I have in the tank right now) because it was becoming pressed on the side of the tank. I figured while I had the rock up I would look underneath it to see if the fish was there. There was not a single sign of her, just my two sexy shrimp who dived for cover behind the live rock that the coral rock was sitting on. I am going to presume her lost. Since her disappearance I have twice seen isopods in my tank. One of the times was this morning, right after I turned on the light.

Just added to my IQ5 =0)