Neon blue cleaner goby and purple firefish?

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System is a 30 gallon, think I will have any aggression with the two?
 
They will ignore each other. I used to have the same two in a smaller tank and never saw them interact in any way.
 
I have about 25lb of Rock and a good amount of caves. There is a fish calculator that gave me a warning about the 2 together.
 
I never had a purple firefish, but I had a neon goby with a regular, red firefish with only minimal interactions between them. Once or twice the goby would try and clean the firefish and the firefish would freak out and dart away. They're a bit shy. For a while they were fine together, then I saw that sometimes the firefish would kind of bully the goby. Nothing severe, but when the goby would swim around, the firefish would dart at him a bit and make him perch back on the rocks. The goby wouldn't go and hide, just stay on the rocks. I guess the firefish didn't like the goby swimming in his space. But really, they got along well in a nano tank, and added some nice color to the small tank, which was nice.
 
They will ignore each other. That fish calculator is inaccurate in this case.
We have an opportunity to get a mated pair of these guys. You have always given us sound livestock advice. How will they do with a clown, Tailspot, and Pike Blenny?
 
We have an opportunity to get a mated pair of these guys. You have always given us sound livestock advice. How will they do with a clown, Tailspot, and Pike Blenny?
The tailspot may chase them from his favorite perching spot, but beyond that there shouldn't be any other issues.
 
The tailspot may chase them from his favorite perching spot, but beyond that there shouldn't be any other issues.
We ended up going with a little lonely guy that had been at the lfs for almost 3 months. He is awesome!
 

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