Tanganyikan Goby Cichlid

[Sarn1]

Does anybody have any experience with any of the Tanganyikan Goby Cichlid species? I've read they can be kept in brackish tanks. I was also looking at a Horseface Loach, any insight would be helpful.

 

[nmonks]

Eretmodus and the other eretmodines are notoriously difficult to keep even under standard Tanganyikan conditions. They come from surf-zone habitats and require lots of oxygen. I can't see them working for long in a brackish water system at all.

Horseface loaches do indeed come from brackish water habitats and will tolerate low-end conditions, around 1.003 at 25 C, quite well.

Cheers, Neale

Does anybody have any experience with any of the Tanganyikan Goby Cichlid species? I've read they can be kept in brackish tanks. I was also looking at a Horseface Loach, any insight would be helpful.

 

[Sarn1]

Thanks Neale, I appreciate the info!

One more, how a Zebra blenny (Omobranchus zebra)I hear they are brackish, or any other blennys?

 

[nmonks]

This is the only brackish water blenny even halfway regularly traded. It's a vicious little thing, so be careful. It's on my FAQ if you need more.

Cheers, Neale

One more, how a Zebra blenny (Omobranchus zebra)I hear they are brackish, or any other blennys?

 

[Sarn1]

I was looking at your FAQ, what about the peacock blenny Salaria pavo? Seems like a neat fish, I'm guessing they are hard to find?

 

[nmonks]

It's a temperate zone species, and not difficult to *collect* if you happen to live on the shores of the Mediterranean. I've never seen it traded.

Cheers, Neale

I was looking at your FAQ, what about the peacock blenny Salaria pavo? Seems like a neat fish, I'm guessing they are hard to find?

 

[Sarn1]

Ok so I have been eyeballing a Horseface Loach, but I have a couple concerns. One I have a planted tank, will the loach uproot the plants with its burrowing? Two will the loach be able to live and escape my future figure-8 puffer attacks with its burrowing skills and nocturnal nature?

 

[didz04]

Yeah these are very good hiders and with them being very skinny like fish it makes it very easy for them to burrow in bigger grained gravel and also it makes it harder for them to dig out plants. I bought a pair and one was always out but then I never saw the other one until a month later when I saw its nose come out. I wasn't sure what it was and was really excited because the other longnose was out and was the only fish that burrowed in my tank. I thought the other long nose may have died and that it might have been another fish in the bag on accident.. well you never know it could have been both lol. They are excellent survivors and even though you never see them come out in day but they will come out at lights off and swift through for food. Not that you won't see them hardly, mine was hiding because it was being attacked by my ruby shark so they both used to burrow when it chased them and the ruby sharks used to get right confused like 'huh' lol. They are quite fast growers at the start but still the ones I saw in the lfs sho0p that were 4-5" big seemed pretty lazy unless it was just the tank size that puts them down but usually very active fish.