Bumblebee Gobie

[beckisguppies]

hi i bought 2 bumblebee gobies today and im not sure what to feed them, will they eat dry food or do i have to feed them on live foods, please help thanx

 

[CFC]

They will need to be fed live or frozen foods, bumble bee gobies very rarely will accept dried foods. They are also a brackish fish which means they need a lot of salt added to the water, more than most tropical fish can stand.

 

[JobySp]

You shouldn't go wrong with bloodworm or brine shrimp - thats what we feed ours and they love it!

 

[Max]

a lot of salt added to the water

true... but dont put to much (i would say 1.005 saltanity, am i right?)

 

[CFC]

They can go all the way up to a SG of about 1.015 if aclimatised slowly but anything between 1.005 and 1.010 will be fine.

 

[Artuk]

We have had a couple of bumblebees for a while now. We experimented with different foods, but found that while they would hit the flakes and pellets, they would spit it out.

What ended up working very nicely for all the fish in the tank is frozen brine shrimp. My fish are all small, including the gobies, so I slice the cube up with a razor blade. THis makes nice goby/guyppy/danio sized tidbits. I defrost it in some warm water in a cup and pour it into the tank in waves. This gets the attention of the gobies who seem to be a little slower then the other fish figuring out whats going on. As long as I just pour a little of the shrimp "soup" in the tank at a time, hardly any of the chunks reach the bottom. It also lets us more easily gauge when the fish are "done" although our catfish seem ready willing and able to deal with left overs.

We only do a shrimp feeding every couple of days. Before we found the shrimp the gobies were doing ok, we suspect eating the fry of the constantly spawning danios. However, since feeding the tank sliced brine shrimp they seem to be doing better.

Thats my experience, anyway. From what I have ready different gobies have different degrees of tolerance for flake food.

Regards,

Artuk

PS- Our tank is freshwater, and they have been doing fine.

 

[beckisguppies]

thanks for all the advice, i went out and got some frozen brine shimp so ill keep an eye on them