Bumblebee Gobies

[cuticom]

I've been looking at setting up a small brackish tank for bumblebee gobies and the information I'm getting off the net is well interesting LOL. So I have some questions

Firstly Tank size, I've read suggestions from half gallon per goby to 20g per goby, half gallon seems way to small and surely a single goby dosn't need 20g each?

For filtration if I used a 10 x per hour pump sitting on the bottom would that provide enough current for feeding?

Feeding isn't hard my eels get frozen bloodworm and brineshrimp and I should hopefully have guppy fry soon and all the fish get live mossie larvae, so that should be plenty for bumblebees

I've read they need to be groups of 3 or more, so I could keep just 3 gobies? Their such small little critters, would they need a tank larger then 3g for 3?

Any other info on them would be very appreciated,
Thanks
Emma

 

[ac106]

I would say there is no hard and fast rule as to how much space per bumble bee goby

Its more about territory. Each needs space and will defend that space.

I have kept a dozen in a 10 gallon tank without any sort of problems. They quarrel but that is part of the fun as they never hurt each other. Ensure that each fish has a space to carve out as his own. I found that everyone does not need a true "cave". They just find a space to rest on and will drive off any intruders.

I would probably go with 5g min as anything smaller is just too much of a pain in the butt to maintain.

In 5 gallons, you could easlily have 5-6 BBGs. In a ten gallon, i had a dozen with no problems. In a 20G, you could have 10-15 and a Figure 8 puffer, Flagfish, or Glassfish.

 

[cuticom]

I've got a 30l tank hanging around, thats about 8g, would that house 8-10 gobies okay? Does brackish need any type of different filter to freshwater?