Can confirm. Can be infuriatingly hard to get them to eat.Golden dwarf moray. Can be very hard to feed sometimes, but are usually "fish safe." Small firefish, blennies and gobys may become a meal, but I've had a hi fin goby and a tail spot blenny with mine until they died of some other unknown cause.
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Love my engineer goby. Has personality. Makes faces at me, and knows I am the bringer of food - will stare at me from a variety of holes in his tunnels/rockwork no matter which panel of the tank I'm viewing. Awesome fish.
^ @vetteguy53081 Is this guy in a BB tank? If so, are they good in a BB tank? Always thought they should have sand. Please share your experience if its a BB
^ @vetteguy53081 Is this guy in a BB tank? If so, are they good in a BB tank? Always thought they should have sand. Please share your experience if its a BB
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Love my engineer goby. Has personality. Makes faces at me, and knows I am the bringer of food - will stare at me from a variety of holes in his tunnels/rockwork no matter which panel of the tank I'm viewing. Awesome fish.
^ @vetteguy53081 Is this guy in a BB tank? If so, are they good in a BB tank? Always thought they should have sand. Please share your experience if its a BB
Can't get mine to stay still.
File pic so others know what an engineer is. Mine makes little hills but worth it. great eater, food hunter and hider.
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+1 on the engineer goby I love mine. But make sure your rocks are secure they love to burrow.
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JI had a brothlid for 18 years and saw it about three times and only at night using a flash light. I never saw it eat but it was beautiful and about six inches
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Where did you hear that snowflake eels eat fish? Go a head and get a snowflake eel they eat crabs and shrimp not fish. I am surprised after going through 2 pages no one else has mentioned this.
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Snowflakes are mostly safe with fish, but I've had a few individuals hunt newly added fish.
If your fish budget is big, have you considered the zebra eel? https://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=15+29+136&pcatid=136 , though you would likely need to rehome it when it gets fully grown or get a bigger tank.
BTW, don't rule out the engineer goby! I vote for it, hands down. True eels have a way of escaping even the smallest opening! They hide 90% of the time, and I have never been able to keep one in a tank successfully even plugging EVERY hole to keep them in the tank. Now, I keep engineer gobies. They look like an eel, swim like an eel, pick a home in the rock work like an eel, and are easier to keep in the tank. They're community safe, disease resistant, and get over a foot long. They are forgiving of fluctuating tank parameters as much as any hardy fish (especially helpful for a newbie saltwater keeper), and they are able to hold their own with semi aggressive fish when bigger. Most are not picky eaters. Mine eat pellet, frozen, and even flakes. Variety in the diet is key to health I think. I love my engineer gobies! The only drawback is they like to tunnel. Sit all rock work directly on the tank glass before adding substrate so the structures are sturdy.
Here's a YouTube video I found of a couple of engineer gobies swimming that I thought was pretty neat.
Good luck with your decision!
BTW, don't rule out the engineer goby! I vote for it, hands down. True eels have a way of escaping even the smallest opening! They hide 90% of the time, and I have never been able to keep one in a tank successfully even plugging EVERY hole to keep them in the tank. Now, I keep engineer gobies. They look like an eel, swim like an eel, pick a home in the rock work like an eel, and are easier to keep in the tank. They're community safe, disease resistant, and get over a foot long. They are forgiving of fluctuating tank parameters as much as any hardy fish (especially helpful for a newbie saltwater keeper), and they are able to hold their own with semi aggressive fish when bigger. Most are not picky eaters. Mine eat pellet, frozen, and even flakes. Variety in the diet is key to health I think. I love my engineer gobies! The only drawback is they like to tunnel. Sit all rock work directly on the tank glass before adding substrate so the structures are sturdy.
Here's a YouTube video I found of a couple of engineer gobies swimming that I thought was pretty neat.
Good luck with your decision!
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What would you suggest for the minimum tank size for an engineer goby? I have a 25 gallon, and have seen engineers for sale that are 1-2 inches, but seeing them full grown it looks like that isn't enough space.
Live Aquaria lists minimum tank size for the engineer at 55 gal. If you were going to have more than one, I'd do bigger. The smallest tank size I've every housed them in was a 75 gal.
Chainlink is a pebbletoothed eel like the snowflake that are not fish eaters. Chainlink is way more mellow than a snowflake... somewhere between a Zebra and a SF. Zebra is super mellow, but much too larger for a 50g, IMO.
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