Senegal Bichir

[ANIM4L]

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I was looking into getting a violet goby for my tank, becuase i want an "eel like" animal but everything is aggressive and my tank isnt aggressive. I have angels and rams, and a synodontis euopterus and a striped raphael catfish and a bunch of neons. I was looking them up everywhere and found that there is a brackish a fw version. I dont know what the ones i saw were, but here they said that the Gobioides peruanus dont have dark bands on them (the fw version). So can someone show me pics so i can see? I wanna get the fw version cuz i dont want the other to die. If the place i buy it in and where it was bred was a fw system, and it is the brackish verison, Gobioides broussonettii, would it be ok in my fw tank or no?

Ok since u know what is in my tank, how would a senegal bichir do in it?

 

[CFC]

The freshwater dragon goby Gobioides peruanus is IMO quite a rare fish in the trade with 99% of dragon gobies sold being Gobioides broussonettii, these can be kept in very hard alkeline water but would still be better with some salt added to the water, prefferably to a SG of around 1.005. Dragon gobies are also filter feeders which require regular feedings of small live or frozen foods so do not do well in mixed community tanks where they have to compete with fish that are faster feeders.

 

[ANIM4L]

what if none of my fish are agressive feeders? Like none of my angels are fiesty or anything, they eat and swim along, not pushing nayone out of the way. also what if i introduce the rainbows a week after the goby, that is if i find one...? What exactly will happen to the goby if it is the brackish kind if put into fw? even if the store raised it as fw? im just curious

 

[CFC]

The store have not "raised" the fish, they have simply recieved to fish from an importers and placed it into their tanks, dragon gobies are all wild caught and not captive bred which is why they are only available at certain times of the year. Most brackish fish spawn in freshwater and when the young hatch they they move downstream toward saltier water, when brackish fish are denied the salt they need they become hyper active at first, and then lethargic and prone to disease and finally waste away and die.

Angel fish are much more aggressive feeders than dragon gobies, the gobies tend to just wait for food to float past them and inhale it with a massive gulp of water, with fish like angel fish which actively seek out their food the goby would probably starve.

 

[ANIM4L]

ok so thats a no on the goby, what about a senegal bichir? I love them, but i was curious

 

[CFC]

A Senegal bichir will eat neons and rams.