Bumblebee Goby & Fry

[Amunet]

I was thinking about getting a few guppies for our 29gal tank, and was just wondering if the bumblebee goby would hunt/eat the fry? Actually, I'm hoping it would since I hate just feeding it frozen bloodworm all the time... that is if the other fish don't get to the fry first.

 

[nmonks]

BBGs will indeed eat small guppy fry, given the chance. Does rather depend on there being resting places close to where the guppy fry are lurking. But I doubt they'll make huge inroads into the guppy broods. I keep gobies with cherry shrimps, and while I dare say the BBGs eat some of the baby shrimps (which are smaller than guppy fry) enough survive that I have more shrimps than I really know what to do with.

Do consider getting multiple BBGs: they're much more fun when chasing one another about.

Cheers, Neale

I was thinking about getting a few guppies for our 29gal tank, and was just wondering if the bumblebee goby would hunt/eat the fry? Actually, I'm hoping it would since I hate just feeding it frozen bloodworm all the time... that is if the other fish don't get to the fry first.

 

[Amunet]

Oh I'd like to get more, but this one is enough of a pain in the butt to deal with. I just can't get over how picky it is with food and would hate to get more just as picky.
Hmm... well.. I guess I could try the guppies, maybe get some ghost shrimp as well and hope the goby eats the baby shrimp if they have any.

 

[nmonks]

For what it's worth, the BBG in this freshwater tank has been there for at least a year, and apart from odd frozen bloodworm, he seems to subsist on cherry shrimp babies.

Cheers, Neale

 

[Amunet]

Okedoke.
We've had this guy for about a year now as well (give or take a month), and other than his recent hunger strike where he almost died, he's been great.
I wasn't hoping to use him to keep the guppy or shrimp population down or anything like that, was just wondering if it would hunt and eat them if it could.

I would love to get some cherry shrimp. They are so pretty. But I've never seen any of the stores here with them. So, ghost shrimp it is for me heh

 

[Amunet]

Welp, just wanted an update on what I decided to do.
I was going to get some female guppies, but decided against it. Instead I got 2 female dwarf platy to go w/ the male that's already in the tank. They already look pretty knocked up so maybe soon we'll have some fry swimming about and hopefully BBG will snag a few for dinner.
Also got 8 ghost shrimp as well. So yeah.. crossing fingers we'll have some baby shrimp around as well to supply the fish with some snacks

 

[jennybugs]

Good luck with it. I have a swarm of 10 gobies in my brackish tank and have to agree with Neale...they're so much fun to watch when chasing each other out of their territories. I found in a bigger group they eat what they can as the competition is higher for food. I feed mine on small live bloodworm and they also eat the scraps of mussel etc that the F8 puffers leave behind. Small river shrimp are also pursued and chomped on.