View Full Version : Show me your gobies!
I saw 2 today at my LFS, one looked healthy and one did not. They were short and fat, about 3.5", both off white with a couple of red spots, I'm pretty sure they were tattoed but it looked kind of natural. The guy didn't know anything about them. All he told me was "I think they are some kind of goby and I'm pretty sure we want $7.99 a piece for them." I was so tempted to bring them home for my 30g but the one didn't look so hot and I didn't want just one. Normally the only fish I like are american cichlids and pike but these guys were awesome even if they might have been tattoed. I can't really find any good pictures of anything close to them. All I know is that they were freshwater (maybe brackish but NOT saltwater) and I want them.
so post your goby pictures and let me know if they're cool fish to keep or not.
the closest thing I could find is this
http://www.amonline.net.au/fishes/fishfacts/images/ceremiusf.jpg
which is a desert goby.
I am going to have to call them tomorrow to confirm what they are and ask them how much they want for them and if they can get more..
the second closest thing I could fine is a "round goby" which oddly enough are destroying our great lakes and if you catch them you are supposed to kill them lol
Marbled Goby, I love mine
would a 30g work for 2gobies for awhile? I know nothing about them but I've never seen any over 8".
aquaticdesignsp
12-11-2007, 5:57 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-Qakne7BHk
This is one of my Marbled gobies ( Oxyleotris marmorrata )
if I'm not mistaken. His name is Soony. Because their native name is Soon Hock.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LAj-qYOgMQ
Here is my other Soon Hock. His name is Hocker.
nvrmor2paradise
12-11-2007, 9:40 AM
ewurm, he looks incredible!
I too had a goby for quite some time. He never got any wider then a pencil and only about 1.5" long. One day he just disappeared. I think that the tinfoils finially got him!
Gobies are awesome and seem to take a genuine interest in what's going on outside the tank. It is so cool to see them prop up on their fins and check you out! They can be lightning fast and love to hang out in the plants. They will also eat food whole that seems WAY too big. There seem to be alot of different types out there too, and exist in fresh, brackish, and salt water.
Sorry the picture is so bad, but this was actually a picture of the entire tank. I just cropped the rest of it out. By the date of the photo, this was over a year ago. I hadn't realized that he had been gone so long...
http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q302/nvrmor2paradise/Misc/4cea740d.jpg
KittyKatKeeper
12-11-2007, 9:51 AM
Butch my Dusky Sleeper - thinks he rules the tank until the Pleco comes out at night. I find him very pretty and unique. Only have him about 3 month now.
nice gobies so far. the one I found was more fat and stubby and less long and skinny. I'll post some pics when I buy him.
just got them, they guy still didn't know what they were. I asked him where they came from and he said one of the employees mom's brought them in. He said she had them for around or less than a month and thats all he knew. He was sold to me as a goby but I think might might be some kind of pike? It kind of looks tattooed but maybe not, I know they had some natural blue that faded in and out of them though.
paid $7.99 a piece for them.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y247/OiOhJOi/SLR/3c8c3b97.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y247/OiOhJOi/SLR/686d5e24.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y247/OiOhJOi/SLR/de8acf8b.jpg
sicxspeed
12-11-2007, 4:53 PM
those look like rainbow goby, or sleeper goby
Your fish look like Purple Spot Gudgeons / Gobies, Mogurnda mogurnda or Mogurnda adspersa. They aren't tattooed or dyed, that is their natural colour. Generally peaceful fish, easy to feed and keep, but can be inclined to be fin nippers.
gangster
09-17-2008, 9:10 PM
Lets keep this thread goin.....Im new to gobies and just recently got a fat 4'' jade sleeper goby....eatin like a pig.
gangster
09-20-2008, 11:46 AM
Will a marbled goby get along w/ my jade sleeper goby, rtc x tsn, bichirs?
Mudfrog
09-20-2008, 12:43 PM
Those are Mogurnda Mogurnda.. here is one I used to have, he was about 6-7"
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v624/mudfrog/Fish/Mogurnda%20Mogurnda/Mogurnda1.jpg
gangster
09-21-2008, 5:08 PM
killer colors on that guy mudfrog.
oneyedfish
09-21-2008, 5:40 PM
Wow great gobies!! I love em!
Mudfrog
09-21-2008, 7:38 PM
killer colors on that guy mudfrog.
Yea I miss that guy a lot
vincenwp
09-22-2008, 12:05 PM
good looking fish...he is ambush predator...right
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v624/mudfrog/Fish/Mogurnda%20Mogurnda/Mogurnda1.jpg[/quote]
Mudfrog
09-22-2008, 12:07 PM
good looking fish...he is ambush predator...right
They might be.. but this guy begged for food so it wasn't the case for him :D
tylerperkins
09-22-2008, 12:13 PM
my dragon
Bethany
09-22-2008, 1:16 PM
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=125&pictureid=2618
gangster
09-23-2008, 8:18 PM
Tyler....do you have your dragonfish(violet goby)in brackish water? I went through 2 of these guys and later came to find out they like brackish water.....goood old petsupermaket.
tylerperkins
09-23-2008, 10:50 PM
no hes in fresh and before anybody gets in a war with me i know its brakish and "he will die so fast this way" but hes been in fresh for over a year and hes fine and he has grown to over a foot now
gangster
09-24-2008, 1:46 PM
GOod to know tyler....I guess they can do well in fresh cause he looks healthy. whats he eatin?
Mudfrog
09-24-2008, 1:57 PM
I guess they can do well in fresh cause he looks healthy.
Not typically.. no..
Yanker
09-24-2008, 4:31 PM
just got them, they guy still didn't know what they were. I asked him where they came from and he said one of the employees mom's brought them in. He said she had them for around or less than a month and thats all he knew. He was sold to me as a goby but I think might might be some kind of pike? It kind of looks tattooed but maybe not, I know they had some natural blue that faded in and out of them though.
paid $7.99 a piece for them.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y247/OiOhJOi/SLR/3c8c3b97.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y247/OiOhJOi/SLR/686d5e24.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y247/OiOhJOi/SLR/de8acf8b.jpg
May be a little or a lot late but looks like jade gobys.
tylerperkins
09-25-2008, 12:22 AM
GOod to know tyler....I guess they can do well in fresh cause he looks healthy. whats he eatin?
he eats flake, algae wafers, blood worms, brine shrimp, ghost shrimp and anything else that makes it to the bottom of the tank
Mudfrog
09-25-2008, 9:56 PM
Just happened to go by the LFS on the way home from my softball game and low and behold..
gangster
09-26-2008, 1:18 PM
NIce mudfrog...id love to see them gobies when they get big!
Mudfrog
09-26-2008, 2:52 PM
NIce mudfrog...id love to see them gobies when they get big!
They will make a great addition to my oddball tank.
Mudfrog
09-29-2008, 8:43 AM
One of these guys is really beating up on the other. He's very aggressive towards it. I can't move him yet either as he would be lunch in one of the other tanks.. My last one wasn't aggressive at all, I guess it's only towards the same species?
wayne the pain
09-29-2008, 11:37 AM
Great gobies everyone, have to get a pic of mine up.:)
gangster
10-02-2008, 2:15 PM
My jade sleeper goby passed....He ate my mountain loach and I dont think it settled well in his belly.
Jessica Dring
10-12-2008, 2:11 PM
Oh my goshh. That Dusky Sleeper is a beast! I didn't know Gobys got that big??
Patatl3
10-26-2008, 4:10 PM
AKA Neon Gobies. My brother has a pair and they have eggs every week or 2
kris978
11-07-2008, 12:47 PM
good looking fish...he is ambush predator...right
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v624/mudfrog/Fish/Mogurnda%20Mogurnda/Mogurnda1.jpg[/quote]
he the purple spotted gudgeon is an ambush predator in the wild. will sit there hiding or motionless till food swims by then attack, but will food in a tank like a pig
kris978
11-07-2008, 12:50 PM
yes those would be purple spotted gudgeons, mogurnda mogurnda, ive been looking into getting one. if you could, tell me how their attitude and personality is?
SharptoothBass
12-06-2008, 9:40 PM
my purple spots laid eggs today first time they breed eggs are hanging on the back of the glass male seems to be guarding the eggs most had 5 in the tank they killed 2 in 2 days and started laying eggs this morning
Neervana
12-07-2008, 6:17 AM
wow those are some lovely gobies, especially the one called Butch! amazing!
straitjacketstar
12-11-2008, 1:59 PM
ewurm, he looks incredible!
I too had a goby for quite some time. He never got any wider then a pencil and only about 1.5" long. One day he just disappeared. I think that the tinfoils finially got him!
Gobies are awesome and seem to take a genuine interest in what's going on outside the tank. It is so cool to see them prop up on their fins and check you out! They can be lightning fast and love to hang out in the plants. They will also eat food whole that seems WAY too big. There seem to be alot of different types out there too, and exist in fresh, brackish, and salt water.
Sorry the picture is so bad, but this was actually a picture of the entire tank. I just cropped the rest of it out. By the date of the photo, this was over a year ago. I hadn't realized that he had been gone so long...
http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q302/nvrmor2paradise/Misc/4cea740d.jpg
That's a darter, Etheostoma sp., not a goby, though they do resemble them.
Freakdaddy
12-13-2008, 8:33 AM
Hi,
here's Arnold my Sleeper Goby..
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e399/FishFiend/100_4499.jpg
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e399/FishFiend/DERM.jpg
hes a good foot long and I've had him for about 6yrs.
straitjacketstar
12-13-2008, 8:25 PM
Hi,
here's Arnold my Sleeper Goby..
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e399/FishFiend/100_4499.jpg
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e399/FishFiend/DERM.jpg
hes a good foot long and I've had him for about 6yrs.
Arnold looks like a...uh..Arleta? lol:D
Redchamp
01-11-2009, 11:08 AM
Here is mine.... 15" Marbled Goby
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=1234&pictureid=12414
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=1234&pictureid=12410
KittyKatKeeper
01-13-2009, 8:40 AM
Here is mine.... 15" Marbled Goby
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=1234&pictureid=12414
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=1234&pictureid=12410
How big was he when you got him? How fast did he grow?
Redchamp
01-14-2009, 8:27 PM
How big was he when you got him? How fast did he grow?
I got him a few days ago. maybe a week now.
$20 @ LFS
15 inches
aquaticdesignsp
01-16-2009, 11:11 PM
A new vid of my oddball 220. Check out the male! How cool are his colors?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwYVyIrKHu4
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Docsoldlady
01-25-2009, 8:16 AM
I got myself 3 of these little guys. I am thinking about some knight gobies for my other tank.
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o98/seamonkeychik/100_1158.jpg
i have desert gobies they are like little dogs but real hard to take a pic of, they max out 2 1/2"
knifegill
02-23-2009, 11:21 AM
Someone asked about Mogurnda Adspersa/Mogurnda Mogurnda behavior. I have one of these in my guppy tank and she is like a puppy. (S)He follows everyone who approaches the tank and I'm sure she would take food from my fingers if I had the patience. Took her about an hour to settle in, after that she became the star of the tank. I think it's a she, and about three inches long. I've had her just over a week, but she has grown a bit. They are soooo pretty. Like a killifish on steroids. And hardy, too. The LFS girl dropped her, and broke the little jawbone. It swelled and looked pretty gruesome, but with clean water and melafix, it is getting better every day and she never refused a bite of any food, even pellet and flake, seaweed, bloodworm etc. Amazing fish.
Docsoldlady
02-26-2009, 8:36 AM
Someone asked about Mogurnda Adspersa/Mogurnda Mogurnda behavior. I have one of these in my guppy tank and she is like a puppy. (S)He follows everyone who approaches the tank and I'm sure she would take food from my fingers if I had the patience. Took her about an hour to settle in, after that she became the star of the tank. I think it's a she, and about three inches long. I've had her just over a week, but she has grown a bit. They are soooo pretty. Like a killifish on steroids. And hardy, too. The LFS girl dropped her, and broke the little jawbone. It swelled and looked pretty gruesome, but with clean water and melafix, it is getting better every day and she never refused a bite of any food, even pellet and flake, seaweed, bloodworm etc. Amazing fish.
I bet yours would eat from your fingers, mine do. They are like mini dogs. I hand feed mine frozen blood worms and they grab and shake. Very cool! Hope you can get yours to do so as well. And I hope yours gets better, that LFS experience sounds aweful :(
aquaticdesignsp
04-26-2009, 8:44 AM
It's not very often that you get to see Oxyleotris marmorata looking like this.
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Sidewinder81777
06-27-2009, 9:29 PM
Heres Tito, my fat sleeper. I netted him in a ditch that runs to the river behind my house. He was 3 inches when I got him a few months ago and has grown an inch already.
http://i699.photobucket.com/albums/vv351/sidewinder81777/sleeper.jpg
Fish Heav3n
06-28-2009, 3:41 PM
nice collection guy =]
Sidewinder81777
06-29-2009, 7:16 PM
nice collection guy =]
Thanks! I really like native odballs. If i had a marine tank it would probably be full of searobins and blennies and toadfish and stuff that i catch locally. Although id love to try my hand at dwarfing one of the foot long baby blacktip sharks that are currently making life difficult for my kingfish baits. In my understanding fish growth rate is controlled by food intake and it is actually possible to raise a shark to maturity with minimal growth by this method.