Avoid "log-looking" fish!

[Filthy Sanchez]

I like it

Me too.

 

[evilfish]

i just got 2 of these fish!!! the guy at my lfs pactically gave them to me, as they were jumping into other tanks and completely clearing them!!! aswell as these i got a red spot goby. i put them in my old mans community tank for the time being because they are still only about 10cm, and so far theyve taken 5 cardinal tetras and a couple of small guppys!!!

 

[guppy]

At 10 cm they are getting large enough to be a worry in a community tank, a 25 cm one was eating 15 cm sunfish without a problem and even ate 15 cm bullhead catfish. One about the size of yours even ate 2 skunk corydoras that where about 6 cm. Other than piranha these are the first fish that I have seen gulp down catfish.

 

[DeLgAdO]

Marbled goby (Oxyeleotris marmaratus). Great fish,They hardly ever move then when they do they eat something, anything. I had one that ate live fish, dead fish, frogs, crayfish, candy, canned cat food, etc. I never found anything it would not eat. One one occasion one ate a 10" large mouth bass just 2" shorter than it was. It also tried to eat a tank heater and got it swallowed all the way to the waterline, It also tried to swallow my hand a couple times. I got it free from an lfs because people kept bringing it back after it emptied their tanks. They will live in anything from fresh to very brackish water and while I can find no records of any a full 3' long there are valid records at 26". They are also known as the Soon Hock. It was on this site that I finally found out what the damn thing was years after I sold it. I had been calling it a mottled sleeper. Here are a couple pictures, the larger one is by Liao from fishbase.

candy?

are you serious man?

 

[starrfish71]

I had one for years- I liked it ALOT. Mine only grew to be about 12 inches, and I always kept it with other fish: catfish, polypterus, and bigger cichlids. It would eat anything introduced as food but it wasn't territorial or aggressive towards it's tankmates. It did try to swallow a 4 inch bristlenose once; I found them in the afternoon, the bristlenose had opened it's fins and put it's bristles through the skin on the goby's mouth- I managed to actually pry them apart without too much damage to either one, moved the pleco to a different tank, and both survived and lived years after that.

I have been looking to get anohter one - mine lived for about ten years.

 

[Fried_fish]

Marbled goby (Oxyeleotris marmaratus). Great fish,They hardly ever move then when they do they eat something, anything. I had one that ate live fish, dead fish, frogs, crayfish, candy, canned cat food, etc. I never found anything it would not eat. One one occasion one ate a 10" large mouth bass just 2" shorter than it was. It also tried to eat a tank heater and got it swallowed all the way to the waterline, It also tried to swallow my hand a couple times. I got it free from an lfs because people kept bringing it back after it emptied their tanks. They will live in anything from fresh to very brackish water and while I can find no records of any a full 3' long there are valid records at 26". They are also known as the Soon Hock. It was on this site that I finally found out what the damn thing was years after I sold it. I had been calling it a mottled sleeper. Here are a couple pictures, the larger one is by Liao from fishbase.

When I got to candy and canned cat food I was like wtf?! lmao! good stuff guppy

 

[guppy]

The candy was an accident, I was eating it and dropped some M+Ms into the tank, before I could scoop them back out it ate them, it liked chunks of canned ocean whitefish cat food. I found that out from a friend who also had one. It also ate grapes, a radish, a marble (don't ask me why), chunks of hot dog, a mushroom, and quite a few other things that you should not feed fish, after it tried to eat the heater I experimented a bit.

 

[fishboy]

i hate those fish. they never move and are nasty as hell. they had a bunch of them at the lfs by me for like 40$ for a 15 incher. the salseman threw this dovi in there that was half eatin but still alive from a snakehead in there and it swam up and hammered the poor thing. they also had a 4 foot muskie in a show tank there and the guy threw a 12 inch salmon in there with it. it swam for about 4 min until the muskie swam up under it and basically split it in two

 

[rottbo]

a lfs here had one and had its max size at 8" even though it was already 10" i tried to tell them that they need to change the label but you know those places thet dont care as long as they can sell it

 

[bentank1]

If you're browsing the fish in an aquatic store, and happen to find a 10", really ugly, log-looking bottom fish, you may have found a "Marbled, Sleeping Gobie".
This is not a common fish, but sometimes they pop up and the store clerks rarely know anything about this predator, let alone its name. This fish is tough as nails, grows to about 3 feet, and eats about twice its own weight per day. My poor Tinfoil Barbs, 12", quickly became part of the food chain over night.
In my opinion, the Sleeping Gobie is beautifuly hideous, slow and boring, and cannot get along with anything. If you're into one, huge, monster in a very large tank, check out the Sleeping Gobie. Otherwise, don't bring this one home to play with what you consider, "my tough fish." Three feet is pretty big!

sorry about your barbs.