Australian Desert Gobies eggs

Hmmm, sounds good, got to get a filter and get this tank going!
Nice that they get so familiar with you, very cool! Do you sell them
or was there someone else selling them. I've never seen them near me.
 
Great I'll keep a watch:) I want to put my whiptail in here, the fish in my other tank are a
bit to fast for the food. I'm always sneaking him algae tabs late at night, these guys sound
like a good match.
 
They're fairly voracious; they're just not terribly effective :) I think they'd work well with a farlowella, though I've never had one (they're on my list to eventually try).
Eggs look good this AM. The father is doing a great job with them, and he'll even dart out to eat worms in his area, which is great. It always worries me a bit when they don't eat at all.
 
I somehow missed this thread. I absolutely love them! I think they're in a way, even more fascinating than the garras...of course, they probably have a gorgeous spawning dress going right now.

I got a 20 long for QT at the $1/gallon sale (after losing fish over the years because of not having anything to QT in besides a Rubbermaid bin) but now I am VERY tempted to set it up :) The problem is, the only place I could set it up is very near the cat litter box (which is covered, but that barely makes a difference it seems). A lot of dust accumulates in this spot, and even though it's fragrance free litter it's desiccating, nasty stuff. I worry about dust getting in it, although I suppose I could install a very tight fitting cover to keep most of it out...

Sigh. This is what always happens to my QT tanks...;)
 
Well, move the cat litter box :)
If I were to choose 1 of the 2, I'd go with the gobies in a heart-beat. As ridiculously gregarious and playful as the garras are, the Desert Gobies are even more-so. Then again, I just have a huge soft-spot for gobies and can't be trusted to be objective. Therefore, I asked my wife. She said: "Even hypothetically, why on earth would I want to choose between those two. They're both absurdly cute and funny and interesting." I think they're her two favorite species I've kept.

Anyway, there you have it. If breeding is something you're at all interested in though, that could be a determining factor for the gobies. If wanting to do something riverine is important, then the garras. Otherwise, flip a coin! One other thing about the gobies is that you could do them brackish if you wanted, which would open up some unusual tank-mate possibilities, though I've been enjoying mine in a FW species tank.

The gobies grow really quickly once they hatch, so hopefully I'll have some to sell in April or so. We'll see! So far, so good.
 
Here's a pic from this morning. Note the curious female to the left. The white central part of the egg is much bigger. I think there are around 20 eggs, but it's difficult to tell. The angle isn't great, and many of them are up in the cave with him. They're pretty big eggs; I hope next time he chooses a bigger tube, as I still worry about him knocking some of them down.

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happypoet said:
Well, move the cat litter box :)
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I can't...there's all these aquariums in the way :p: No seriously, other than my bedroom (nope! I am a light enough sleeper as it is, and my two indoor cats are absurdly fussy, kicking and smoothing out the litter for the longest time before and after they use it) there is no other place for the cat litter box. The bathroom is too small, the kitchen is, well, a kitchen....

I think I will try filling it with water and see what happens. If it gets the dust I am concerned about with just a simple Versa hood, then I am going to have to see about having a glass top cut to fit.

I do love the gobies, and love the idea of keeping it slightly brackish and having short fin mollies or swamp guppies in with them :)
 
happypoet said:
They're fairly voracious; they're just not terribly effective :) I think they'd work well with a farlowella, though I've never had one (they're on my list to eventually try).
Eggs look good this AM. The father is doing a great job with them, and he'll even dart out to eat worms in his area, which is great. It always worries me a bit when they don't eat at all.
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I have Rineloricaria Microlepidogaster "Whiptail Catfish" they stay on the bottom and kind of move around with their fins almost like legs, they're very interesting, but they are slow getting to the food. The Farlowella from what I read from a thread here is a Twig catfish. And at least they're up the walls of the tank and moving around more, it seems so anyways. Hopefully they'll be able to get along, I also wanted to break down a 10g I have with pymeus cory's and put them in that tank too. Do you think that would be a bad idea?
 
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