Diamond Goby Feeding

[drag]

anybody have a diamond goby if so what do you feed them? mine loves brine shrimp, freeze dried and live. he aso likes dried plankton. he wont eat flake of pellet. i want to give it more of a variety. anybody have any success with other canned fish foods of other natures than brine or plankton?

im thinking of buying some table shrimp for him ,maybe some squid.
hes eating fine and everything just want to give him a diet with more variety.

 

[SkiFletch]

Heh, ironically enough, the fact that it eats anything frozen or otherwise man-made is exceptionally rare. Usually Diamond Gobies get all their food by sifting substrate through their mouths/gills for substrate critters and algaes. As such, they tend to suffer the fate of most starfish or mandarins in under-sized tanks of starvation. Good thing yours is eating something else . The only other thing I'd try is seaweed type algae like Nori or other sushi algae.

 

[drag]

Heh, ironically enough, the fact that it eats anything frozen or otherwise man-made is exceptionally rare. Usually Diamond Gobies get all their food by sifting substrate through their mouths/gills for substrate critters and algaes. As such, they tend to suffer the fate of most starfish or mandarins in under-sized tanks of starvation. Good thing yours is eating something else . The only other thing I'd try is seaweed type algae like Nori or other sushi algae.

wow........really,when bought this little guy i had read it ate live brine so i knew i could feed it if would not have enough substrate critters. but this little guy attacks the dried brine and plankton foods with a frenzy. it even attempts to eat flake but as he sifts it all he does it tear about a 1/4 inch pice of flake. into about 50 micro pices that come out the back. dosent eat it though.

i bought him because i needed a sand sifter(snails just were just not getting it done). my sand had some diatoms and what looked like some dark brown hard algae. since i got him no more, he keeps the aragonite as white as it come in the bag. hard working little fella. he's got like 3 different burrows and takes turns sleeping in them then covers them up just to dig them back up later.

will try the nori

 

[SkiFletch]

One other thing, they're jumpers, so keep that tank covered. Mine managed to jump out of my display tank, riccochet off my back wall, and land in my refugium. Lucky little fish