neon goby pair

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Originally Posted by christyf5

From my experience two doesn't work. I had two neons in a 90 gallon, one constantly chased the other into the overflow and eventually he disappeared. Then I tried a sharknose goby in with the neon. The sharknose harassed the crap out of the neon and eventually the neon made it into the sump where I rescued him and put him in a 5 gallon nano tank. SamW had an interesting video of aggression between neon gobies that was rather unsettling to watch, one got the entire head of the other in its mouth.

So no I wouldn't suggest more than one especially in a smaller tank.

weird - I've seen SWARMS of them in little tanks and they've been nothing but cute with each other, or they'll just ignore each other!

I guess this is a YMMV sort of situation, just like angels and SPS... I know I'm going to get one for my nano and I was going to do 2 in my 45g reef.

Wonder what would happen if you took 2 from the same tank and added them at the same time there'd be as much an issue? I know J&L has a ton in the same tank right now, might help remove aggression?