What do you guys think...

[Diana]

About tiny cleaner gobies for nano tanks? I have a 5.5 gallon nano with an assortment of corals, snails, and hermit crabs (and lots of little bugs).

I've tried my luck at both green and yellow Clown gobies, and each time they've gotten ich within a week and died. I'm thinking they were too big for the bioload of the tank.

I really want a fish thats gonna eat up all the citters I've got growing in there thanks to my live plankton feedings. I was thinking a neon goby or something like that, will he be good for my tank?

Many thanks!
-Diana

 

[wetworx101]

There might be a reason why the clowns got ich...doubt it was the bioload. I have observed them to be ich-magnets when I first get them from certain stores. Its usually because they are stressed out by some LFSs. FWIW, I hate clown gobies anyways...they look cute, but nip at and sit on certain SPS/LPS corals...and they secrete a poisonous slime that kills what they touch as well. Overall, not a good nano fish unless you take this into account (ie, no SPS / LPS).

A neon or better yet, two, would be great. Or, one of the many prawn gobies would be good (hi-fin red banded).

 

[burnah]

yasha-hase goby with pistolshrimp, that combination rocks!

 

[Anonymous]

yasha-hase goby with pistolshrimp, that combination rocks!

Agreed...that's what I've got, and I can watch the two of them for hours.

 

[Brock Fluharty]

Do either of you two know of any good sites that sells them for cheap? Or at least a reasonable price?




Brock

 

[Anonymous]

I think the dogma on ich is that once the parasite is in your system, it becomes a pretty permanent hurdle to adding new fish and can lay dormant for a very long period without a host. The appearance on your goby, or any new fish for that matter, is probably stress induced from the move, and not a result of bioload. I don't think it helps that clown gobys tend to be pretty fragile little guys to begin with, IME.

As for a bug eater, I love my little chalk bass and he sucks a lot of the little critters off my glass and rockwork for me. They're less timid than the goby and will swim around the tank more.

 

[Anonymous]

I like the shrimp/goby pair idea as well as a couple of neon's. Both are so cute when paired up.

Neon's have great little personalitys. Mine would swim between my fingers and land on my hand. They like to look at you too. :lol:

 

[Diana]

Cool thanks guys! Oh man we had a shrimp/goby pair at our LFS but it was almost $50 so i didnt get it... but now that i think about it it would have been an awesome addition.

Ill keep patient and wait for some neons... i love them too! hehe.

How long is the lifecycle of ich? Could just letting the tank go fishless for a few months help kill the ich? I dont know much about saltwater ich... hehe.


-Diana

 

[sediener]

I think the cyst cycle is 21 days or so. If I had an ich outbreak with no fish I would let my tank rest fishless for a month, run UV during the fallow period and flip it on for a month whenever I added a new fish. I have been lucky enough not to have ich for a very long time. Probably has to do with the fact that I went 3 years without adding a new fish.

- steve

 

[Anonymous]

Do either of you two know of any good sites that sells them for cheap? Or at least a reasonable price?

Check out liveaquaria.com, Brock.