Best food routine for yellow clown goby? ;)

Lily Lemire · Jul 26, 2018

Hey there !Im housing a small yellow clown goby and I was wondering what was the best food routine i could adopt for my fish ☺ For the past days I fed Cyclops (thawed) every night and he ate with such appetite ... i know i will have to vary his diet ( with frozen brine shrimp right? ) but i need to know if i can feed every night or if it will make my nitrites go up like crazy.
• Some infos : 10 gallon nano tank with a mated ocellaris couple, orange lip conch, 1 hermit crab, 1 snail and few corals ( mushrooms, zoanthids, palythozoanthids, kenya tree coral , pachyclavularia, clavularia and elephant ear ) . 10 Aquatech filter + filtered hang breeder box with chaeto.
• 30% water change every 3 days

Thanks in advance

sfin52 · Jul 26, 2018

Mine eats flakes, brine shrimp infuzed with sparilina, Omega one mini pellets ,mysis. Mine is in 75 gallon and eats with the other fish. He holds his own.

Bayareareefer18 · Jul 26, 2018

sfin52 said:
Mine eats flakes, brine shrimp infuzed with sparilina, Omega one mini pellets ,mysis. Mine is in 75 gallon and eats with the other fish. He holds his own.

Have a really small one in my 75 also. He feeds pretty aggressively on anything I toss in. Hatchery diet pellets, new life spectrum pellets and mysis

eatbreakfast · Jul 27, 2018

Feeding correlates to PO4 and NO3, but that's where water changes come in. Feed a varied diet and feed him everyday.

Cherie cook · Jul 27, 2018

The one I have actually tries to food guard....if I put in something like masstick or nori rubber banded to a rock he will sit right on top of it and try to keep other fish away. Of course he doesn't succeed because he's so small...but that doesn't stop him from trying lol!

sfin52 · Jul 27, 2018

They are a pretty bold fish

Bayareareefer18 · Jul 27, 2018

Agreed. Especially for their size
Mine especially loves to steal food that happens to land in a coral

One thing I am finding that I love about the reef world is the different quarks and behaviors of the various species we keep

sfin52 · Jul 27, 2018

Bob hosts my finger leather and devils hand.

Lily Lemire · Jul 28, 2018

eatbreakfast said:
Feeding correlates to PO4 and NO3, but that's where water changes come in. Feed a varied diet and feed him everyday.

Is 25 ppm of nitrates considered high ?

Lily Lemire · Jul 28, 2018

sfin52 said:
They are a pretty bold fish

Yepp

408Dartfish · Jul 28, 2018

I’d say 25ppm nitrates is on the border of being high for me. Dustin

Lily Lemire · Jul 30, 2018

408Dartfish said:
I’d say 25ppm nitrates is on the border of being high for me. Dustin

I tested the water of my 10 gallons after feeding 1 cube of frozen cyclops for 3 days and the test read 25 ppm of nitrates so i did a wc right away since i never had such high results.

Lily Lemire · Jul 30, 2018

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sfin52 said:
Bob hosts my finger leather and devils hand.

My yellow clown goby hosts my blue mushrooms

Lily Lemire · Jul 30, 2018

Cherie cook said:
The one I have actually tries to food guard....if I put in something like masstick or nori rubber banded to a rock he will sit right on top of it and try to keep other fish away. Of course he doesn't succeed because he's so small...but that doesn't stop him from trying lol![/QUOTE
Omg haha he seems to be quite a thug haha