bumblebee goby?!

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hey i have a baby bumblebee goby, i thought he was cute when i bought him about a month ago, but i did not realize he was brackish. I never see him eat, but hes been alive for about a month now, so he must be eating something. what should i feed him? should i feed him something other than flakes? anything else i should do about my shy goby?
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oh ok thanks
 
They eat live and frozen. Only some frozen food seems to work though, I've only had success with frozen bloodworms.

It'll also do fine in either fresh or brackish water.
 
I have had two bumblebees for a couple months now in a freshwater system. I too was worried about the whole brackish thing. I asked someone i knew who also has them in a freshwater system and he says they tend to do better with some API aquarium salt, granted not truly brackish but it seems to help him, not to mention the benefits to other fish as well. As far as eating, mine love frozen food, and ive even caught them "trying" flake food, but they just spit it back out.
 
How critical is the food situation? I have a pair of bumblebee gobies who have been living in my community tank for the past 3-4 months, eating the same multi-fish generic flake food. They seek it out, like the other fish do, when it is feeding time.

Am I condemning them to a slow death?
 
There are about nine species that exist but there is no telling how to distinguish them completely and easily. Brachygobius xanthomelas and Brachygobius aggregatus are a few freshwater species. If intending to make a brackish water biotope, use marine salt, not aquarium salt.

Does he look skinny now? I'd add more gobies and ditch the other fish so they can get their fair share of foods.
 
loaches r cool said:
As I recall there are two common types of BBs, one does okay in freshwater the other needs brackish. I think it had to do with one of the black bands being complete or broken... try a search... right now I am to lazy too look it up :coffee:
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Outdated information. BBGs, regardless of species, can be kept in either freshwater or brackish.

Pullet said:
How critical is the food situation? I have a pair of bumblebee gobies who have been living in my community tank for the past 3-4 months, eating the same multi-fish generic flake food. They seek it out, like the other fish do, when it is feeding time.

Am I condemning them to a slow death?
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BBGs usually don't eat flake food, but sometimes "tastes" it like tolkienapostle mentioned, so I'm pretty surprised. I'd start feeding live/frozen food.
 
vampie said:
BBGs usually don't eat flake food, but sometimes "tastes" it like tolkienapostle mentioned, so I'm pretty surprised. I'd start feeding live/frozen food.
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Will freeze dried suffice? My tank is actually in the waiting room of the veterinary hospital I work at parttime. I rely on the day crew to feed the fish during the week, and I have a hard time convincing them to be fair handed. I have a single cichlid in a tank behind the receptionist counter who is their favorite and who consistently suffers from overfeeding. Meanwhile, my fish in the larger community tank were dropping from starvation a few months back.

In short, frozen or live food would be problematic.

Regardless of frozen, live or freeze dried, will the other fish in the community tank be ok on what the gobies are eating? I have:
1 angel
1 white skirt tetra
2 tiger barbs
2 horse faces
1 molly
1 pineapple sword tail
2 zebra danios
1 placo
 
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