Dragon Goby

[Fella]

http/www.fishtanksandponds.net/live-stoc...n-gobies-II.htm

27 inch long dragon goby. Really has to be seen to be believed.

 

[spAcE mOnkEy]

WHAO!

 

[SirMinion]

I thought our largest one is big at 18 inches, but 27 inches really is impressive!

 

[onemisterchristian]

Geez, looks like he's a bit big for that 125g. Still, what a beast! His face kind of looks like a pug.

 

[SirMinion]

Still, what a beast! His face kind of looks like a pug.

Here's one of ours with a face that only a mother (or oddball fishkeeper) could love.

 

[Genesis]

are they not brackish when adult?

 

[OohFeeshy]

Aww, bless Cute, um, ickle goby

 

[Genesis]

but yes, cool fish!!

 

[onemisterchristian]

Thanks sirminion, you've supplied me with fodder for my nightmares for at least two weeks.

 

[SirMinion]

[quote name=''genesis' post='1095898' date='Mar 1 2006, 05:44 PM']
are they not brackish when adult?
[/quote]It depends on the species, there's one that is found at all levels from marine to far inland but the most commonly imported species are indeed brackish.

 

[Shelly_Otterkin]

I really want one of those. I set my 55gal up with one in mind, but did not want to go brackish at the last min. How can you tell the two species apart? Do you know any where to find one of them that can go fresh? I would ditch any fish in that atnk in a min if I could find one. To make matters worse the local WallMart is selling them for $3.40.

 

[nmonks]

All the violet/dragon gobies should really be kept in brackish, even the "freshwater" species. There are people who've kept monos in freshwater their entire lives, and with success, but it doesn't really qualify as best practise, and certainly isn't recommended. Likewise with these gobies; some species can survive in freshwater indefinitely, but since aquarists can have problems identifying the (at least three) different traded species, the best advice is to keep them at a specific gravity of 1.005 or more.

As for size, the problem is that multiple species are traded under the same, Gobioides brousonnettii name. G. brousonnettii itself should get to around a couple of feet in length, but the other two species are much smaller. G. peruanus is at least moderately commonly traded in the UK, for example, and it only gets to about half the size of G. brousonnettii. The result is that there are lots of reports of these fishes at many different "adult sizes".

Very nice fish though. Looks like one of those cool wolf fishes, Anarhichas lupus.

Cheers,

Neale

 

[Paul_MTS]

I bought my dragon goby in mind for my brackish tank, which had an SG of about 1.008. After being in brackish for about a 1month he really wasn't doing well at all, so I shifted him into a freshwater tank where he's flourised.

Here's my fella....

He's about 10" now.