? About Dragonfish.

[BettyM]

Can you tell me anything about them?How big they get?How they get along with other's?Who are thier friend's?Anything would be of great help! THANK'S.

 

[diademhill]

Can you tell me anything about them?How big they get?How they get along with other's?Who are thier friend's?Anything would be of great help! THANK'S.

Arrowana or goby?

 

[Dorkhedeos]

if you saw this fish at petsmart, its a violet goby. they get up to like 20" and they need brackish water. they are scavengers and i think they are pretty peaceful(not sure, somebody has to confirm this) if you saw an arowana, it grows up to 4' and you need at least a 200 gallon tank i think.

 

[BettyM]

It was at W-M.All the lil sign thing said was it was a Dragonfish.It is siverish-black in color.It has a pretty big head and it was about 4 to in long.Do they eat regular fish food or something special?

 

[Dorkhedeos]

was it flat or was it round? if it looks like this, maybe you can get it

but if it looked like this, i doubt you can afford to house it because these grow up to like 3-4'

 

[BettyM]

O,it is the top one.I was talking to my best friend today while she was at a fs and she ended up surprising me with one.He seems to be acting fine.He is eating and not aggresive.But I think 1 of my ghost shrimp are missing.Do I need a bigger tank?

 

[Dorkhedeos]

what size is your tank? im pretty sure that it needs at least 30 gallons, but im not sure, maybe somebody else can help you

 

[diademhill]

what size is your tank? im pretty sure that it needs at least 30 gallons, but im not sure, maybe somebody else can help you

You will need a tank with a footprint of at least 4'x18" but a 30g will do until it is about six/eight inches.
They are sift feeders & need a sand substrate and small sized frozen foods. You may get them to eat small sized granules.

They are not aggressive to other fish but need brackish conditions and so the choice of fish you can keep them with is limited.

EDIT - just seen your other post and your ten gallon tank is not suitable for this or the kissing gourami.

 

[nmonks]

There is more than one of these giant gobies sold as aquarium fish. These species are here in the Brackish FAQ as well as some information on their maintenance requirements.

Even the smallest species, Gobioides peruanus, gets to around 30 to 40 cm long in captivity. Other species are appreciably bigger. While you might be able to keep a single specimen in an over-filtered 40 gallon tank, realistically you want something quite a bit bigger.

As others have said, they are peaceful. They may eat small fish (like guppies) or shrimps if at the absolute point of starvation. But they prefer small invertebrates (such as brine shrimps), bloodworms, algae, and various dried foods like catfish pellets. Algae is important for good health. They have tiny teeth used to rasp algae from stones and mud, so provide them with a substitute, such as pellets or wafers produced for plecs.

All the Gobioides spp. gobies and their relatives need a sandy aquarium. Silver sand or coral sand are ideal. Do not keep them in a tank with gravel if you want the fish to be happy and long-lived. You will also need tubes of some kind as burrow substitutes (these fish normally live in mud burrows). PVC tubes are ideal. They are territorial, but if not overcrowded, they do not harm one another.

While these are actually astonishingly hardy fish, they have been sadly abused over the years, and most specimens appear to die a premature death. Kept well, they are real characters, ugly, but lovely nonetheless.

Cheers,

Neale

 

[edgun88]

Just to let you know, I have one of these guys. He is really nice and seems to be nocturnal, because everytime I turn out the lights he comes out of his cave. He is mainly eating bloodworms that fall to the bottom when I feed my other fish. But just letting you know they are nice fish.