New acquisition

[Bob I]

Picked this little guy up yesterday. It is a Rainford Goby, or Rainford's Goby. My search for information came up with the fact that it is a hair algea eater. I have a bit of brown algae on the bottom. We'll see how it does with that.

[AJ_77]

Cool little fish - hope it does well with you.

[Stretch]

very nice

hows that 6 line and yellow goby doing?

[reefer_11]

Rainfrods gobies don't eat hair algae. They eat the inverts that live on and eat the algae.

Sorry. they require a tank of similar dimensions and age as a dragonette

[Quinn]

Agreed, reefer_11. The hover gobies (what a cheesy name) are sand sifters, who eat microcrustaceans. I don't think they would eat cyano, except if they happened to get a mouthful when sifting, as my Valenccia puellaris sometimes does. They require a fairly large tank to do well. I believe someone (Sam perhaps) out on the coast has a cousin to Rainford's Goby, a Hector's goby, and that individual can probably comment further.

[Bob I]

Originally Posted by reefer_11

Rainfrods gobies don't eat hair algae. They eat the inverts that live on and eat the algae.

Sorry. they require a tank of similar dimensions and age as a dragonette

That of course is opinion. Some of the sources of my info feel like you do. That being that they eat the animal life in the algae beds. Others feel they eat the algae. There is some feeling that they do better in a well established tank. One of the sources states a 20 gallon tank will be fine. They all state the goby is a jumper, and a covered tank is recommended. I have introduced the fish into a well established 50 gallon tank, and I will keep you up tp date as to its progress, or lack of same.

[Bob I]

Originally Posted by Stretch

very nice

hows that 6 line and yellow goby doing?

The six line and goby are doing fine Jesse. There is a problem with the goby and my M. digitata. That is being worked on as we speak.

[Quinn]

I will partly take back what I said. From what I am finding out now, the diet of Amblygobius species ranges from fine algae to small crustaceans - "...filamentous algae, various crustacean groups, nematode worms..." (Fenner). Starvation remains the leading cause of death in captivity. Of course this is a problem with any fish that will not accept prepared foods. Whether yours makes a dent in your cyano (that's what it looks like to me) will be interesting to find out.

http://www.wetwebmedia.com/amblygobius.htm

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by teevee

Whether yours makes a dent in your cyano (that's what it looks like to me) will be interesting to find out.

concidering cyno is a bacteria and not a algae I would bet not.

Steve

[BCOrchidGuy]

Bob I've got one too, beautiful fish, some folks seem to call the Hectors gobies too, although others say the Hectors has different colouring. It's a reasonably active fish, not real shy but not a go getter.

Doug