Dragon Fish

[Gobrian44]

Thanks it helps a lot. Where did you get him at? He looks amazing and sounds like a great fish

 

[mamapuff]

Thanks! Believe it or not I got him at Petsmart for like 6 bucks, but I have seen one of the LFS's around here have a batch in. I can send you a full length shot of him in his tube tonight if you want. He used to be skinny like they have in the stores,but after a year of noshing on his buffet of flake, bloodworms, krill, you name it, he's gotten really thick. He is funny as hell to watch when he swims thru the tank because he doesn't do it too often. He always makes me stop and go, "what the hell is he doing??" lol

 

[Gobrian44]

Thanks! Believe it or not I got him at Petsmart for like 6 bucks, but I have seen one of the LFS's around here have a batch in. I can send you a full length shot of him in his tube tonight if you want. He used to be skinny like they have in the stores,but after a year of noshing on his buffet of flake, bloodworms, krill, you name it, he's gotten really thick. He is funny as hell to watch when he swims thru the tank because he doesn't do it too often. He always makes me stop and go, "what the hell is he doing??" lol

Yeah that would be GREAT!!! if you have the time. You said he eats flakes? I heard they eat bloodworms but not much else. What all have you gotten him to eat?

 

[mamapuff]

Yeah that would be GREAT!!! if you have the time. You said he eats flakes? I heard they eat bloodworms but not much else. What all have you gotten him to eat?

He loves his bloodworms, thats for sure. But he has learned to eat flake, ( I will still put that right at the beginning of his tube for him since he eats slower that the severums and loaches). I also have given him fry pellets, (i have babies in the tank) and regular cichlid pellets. (all sinking of course, he wont surface feed). I have seen him eat shrimp pellets and seafood wafers occasionaly when they get soggy, but not often). I would love to send you a pic, its no trouble at all. It's nice to see interest in a fish that doesn't usually get any. What kind do you have? Here are a few of my others. Older pics, and they don't have most of my new ones but now i have an excuse to take more lol. hmm... i can go home at lunch and take some lol.

 

[Gobrian44]

Wow Right now i have an empty 100G that i'm figuring out what to put in it. After reading on the Dragon Goby i wanna do brackish but am a noob to it and don't know what other fish i could have in there with him. What do you keep with you DG?

 

[Dragon cqzzzzz<]

I have one.
To avoid confusion, you should use the common name violet goby, not dragon fish. Stores call them dragons to make them sell.
I've heard of them growing over 24 inches long on multiple occasions. As it's been said, they need to be kept in brackish water.
Adults may actually start eating small fish. One person told me that at an LFS where she used to work, a mature one would demolish a tank of tiger barbs. They'll eat a variety of foods, from meaty things like bloodworms to algae.
I really wish there was a good article I could link you to, but every one out there seems to be wrong in one way or another.

 

[mamapuff]

i just wrote a big long post and it screwed up the pics, i sent the thread home and will update here shortly. tty soon.

 

[KYeasting]

I had 2 recently, but I sold them. I had one for about 3 years, it was about 12" long before I sold it. The other came into the picture about 6 months ago. After isolation was over, the larger one immediately latched onto the smaller one's head. I decided it was a bad idea to keep them together, so I separated them right away. The larger one (named Hakuu) would hang out in an old vacuum tube (similar to the other one I saw up here) until he outgrew it. I would feed it from a turkey baster and it would swim up and nibble on the end of the baster to get food! I kept it in a tank with gravel for the majority of the time. I moved it over into a tank with sand for a little while and it rearranged the entire floor! Anyway, I decided to get rid of him because it was getting so large. I had it in a 55, and I could tell it was getting a little cramped. Additionally, several of my fish were being harrassed by him. I lost many neon tetras to that guy. As soon as it left the tank, the behavior of all of my fish changed for the better! It was a great fish, but it definitley became more aggressive towards the end!

 

[mamapuff]

I got him when I was a noob if it makes you feel better

Let me get my list together of who i had in there with him. I didn't go full brackish though, so depending on how salty your tank is may also depend on who goes in. And for that I know that scats and puffers like that, but my puffer ate Snakeman's dorsal off so he went bye bye quick and in a hurry into his own tank and is my night light. ( put him in a tiny tank on my night stant) I just had him in the tank that I kept salt in. in my tank with him right now is a festivum, a bunch of severums (green, red, and gold), 2 baby frontosa, a rainbow shark, those two weird shell dwellers, 10 clown loaches, a fat dwarf pleco, a common pleco, the cray fish, 3 mystery cichlids I got from auction that i need to find out what the hell they are, and a khuli loach that I have had for like a year, and thought it died and then when we moved a couple weeks ago, i found him real fat and alive. I may have forgotten a few others. But here are some pics from lunch today. I will get some better shots. I didn't have much time. Oh the parrot is my clown. We had the parrots in there but moved them from the 75 to the 150 when we moved a few weeks ago.

oh and don't mind that big pink glass paper weight lol. My husband got that when he was a kid (saved up a looooong time with his allowande ) and its been with him forever. So i decided to put it in the tank hee hee.

 

[bdevilcasey]

Brackish!!! That makes sense. I tried To keep one in my 125g with Oscars. They were dead in days. Didnt Know they were BRACKISH!!!