Dragon Goby Is Pale

[jesse217]

Ok my dragon goby has been in my community tank for 1.5 years now and is about 9in long. This morning when i fed the fish he was his regular blue color but now hie very pale.
His still eating and swimming normaly. He eats tropical/cichlid flakes, frozen bloodworms and the occasinal earth worm. and it a 30g tank.

 

[nmonks]

Dragon gobies, Gobioides spp., are brackish water fish. They cannot, and will not, live their full lives in freshwater. This has been amply demonstrated again and again. You must maintain these fish in a brackish water aquarium* at upwards of SG 1.005 at 25 degrees C (about 9 grammes of marine salt mix per litre of water).

If you aren't keeping your dragon goby in brackish water, then that's your problem, right there. Any further discussion is pointless without first correcting that issue. Every aquarium book on the planet states that these fish need brackish water, so one good question is why are you keeping this fish in a freshwater community tank?

Cheers, Neale

*Note that a teaspoon per gallon tonic salt isn't adequate. If you are adding enough salt for your dragon goby to be healthy, most freshwater fish would be dead. Period. End of story.

Ok my dragon goby has been in my community tank for 1.5 years now and is about 9in long. This morning when i fed the fish he was his regular blue color but now hie very pale.
His still eating and swimming normaly. He eats tropical/cichlid flakes, frozen bloodworms and the occasinal earth worm. and it a 30g tank.