yellow watchman goby

by **fishguy444** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 12:23 am

Do yellow watchman gobys need a soft substrate in order to eat?

by **javahava82** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 2:32 pm

it does help that a soft substrate helps in letting them sift through sand and find small organisms/plant life to eat:

http://www.sheddaquarium.org/sea/fact_sheets.cfm?id=81

> Using their huge mouth, yellow watchman gobies scoop up mouthfuls of sand, sifting through it in search of zooplankton or tiny animals, phytoplankton or tiny plants, and pieces of algae.

by **fishguy444** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 7:30 pm

Thanks for the advice but can they eat food any other way besides sand sifting?

by **ci11337** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 10:58 pm

They eat other ways but still need sand so they can burrow without cutting themselves...

by **grannyf** » Thu May 24, 2007 3:32 pm

So...I do not have to try to feed this guy with the frozen brime shrimp??? I a 6 line wrasse and "Nemo"...whenever I try to put the shrimp in the tank..they eat it before the goby can get it...and I do not want to overfeed!

by **ci11337** » Thu May 24, 2007 6:56 pm

They'll sift food out of the sand but they still need suplementral feeding. Tiny extra pieces of shrimp do get down to the bottom where he'll eat it. I'd try some type of sinking pellet. Maybe whille your other fish are eating the shrimp the pellet will get down to the goby. Also i'd recomend switching to mysis shrimp, it has much more nutrients than brine.

by **grannyf** » Thu May 24, 2007 10:56 pm

tks for the advise...I shall get some mysis shrimp!

yellow watchman goby

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