Twin Spot Goby Help

[xnmuller]

Just a quick anecdotal story. I have had a win spot (my daughter named him Spotsy-Jumpy) in my 135 gallon for just under a year now. Spotsy-Jumpy was added when the tank was about 6 months old as I wanted to more certain in his food source. He has not been paired up all that time and he has never once shown signs of distress. Nor do I do anything special for his diet, but then again he has a very large dinner plate. Maybe I got lucky, I don't know, but I would not rate them as high as ten out of ten for difficulty of care.

Although it does sound like you may have some difficulty with the move. Good luck.

[jtbadco]

I am not saying how difficult they are or can be, or whether or not they should be allowed in the aquarium trade.

I picked one up also, with no idea on difficulty of feeding. I have read that paired twin spots should be kept together but not that solo twin spots are disadvantaged in some way.

I have only had mine for 2 months but he is healthy and eats well. He is in a well stocked 65 gal community reef tank. He eats anything that hits the sand including shrimp, brine shrimp, mysis, flake, pellets, cyclopeeze.

Now it has only been two months but I would think the varied diet and good eating habits are a good sign. I also have a m+f Green Mandarin that are both on prepared foods as well but they were eating well before I bought them.

I suggest you continue what you are doing. Putting food in the sand will guarantee he is well fed...but only do it once or twice a week. It will encourage him to eat when you feed the tank.

HTH
Blaine

[Enigma]

Originally Posted by xnmuller

Although it does sound like you may have some difficulty with the move. Good luck.

I'm not overly worried about the move. It is something I have to do for maintenance and budget issues. I can't afford to properly manage two tanks ("properly" for me includes chillers and controllers). I'm not sure what I'm going to do about the existing sandbed. It does have a population of largish amphipods that I don't want to lose, but it is a very young sandbed.

I shut one tank down when temperatures spiked in it and I purchased a chiller for the other tank. I moved the residents into the tank with the chiller (25 gallon system: 10g in the display and 15g in the sump and refugium). This leaves me overstocked at present, so we're in a mad panic to get the new display done. The parameters are presently good on the system, but if we leave it too long it will all go to hell. The five fish are basically babies .75" to 1.5", with the Goby being the largest by a 1/2 inch.

Originally Posted by jtbadco

I suggest you continue what you are doing. Putting food in the sand will guarantee he is well fed...but only do it once or twice a week. It will encourage him to eat when you feed the tank.

Thanks for the suggestion. I will try it twice a week for now.