Twin Spot Goby

[Dakippy]

Hello and I hope everyone is doing well,

I have been researching the twin spot goby and I have head that it is very difficult to keep alive due to its picky feeding habits and that it is not very well fit for an aquarium and dies rather quickly.

Has anyone had any success with keeping one of these gobies alive for a significant amount of time?
What feeding methods/specific care did you use to keep them alive?
What about your tank helped this fish thrive?

Thank you for your input as I love to learn more and more about this hobby.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Not that it is difficult but it feeds mainly off bottom and generally prefer live foods such as shrimp, brine shrimp and even worms which i do not recommend.
It chooses to sift through bedding for a meal making feeding challenging. It also dwells best in tank with Good water conditions. Frozen and meaty foods also work well, but here is where the finicky may be a challenge.

 

[AC1211]

Hello and I hope everyone is doing well,

I have been researching the twin spot goby and I have head that it is very difficult to keep alive due to its picky feeding habits and that it is not very well fit for an aquarium and dies rather quickly.

Has anyone had any success with keeping one of these gobies alive for a significant amount of time?
What feeding methods/specific care did you use to keep them alive?
What about your tank helped this fish thrive?

Thank you for your input as I love to learn more and more about this hobby.

Don't bother almost all gobies that depend on sand sifting tend to starve unless they not only eat from the water column but also came in healthy. I have a diamond watchman a sand sifter that will do much better on average. The fish is over a year old and I still will not put it in as a success until it is 2 years with me. A twin spot is harder than all valencienna gobies except one or two (unsure on how hard bella gobies are) so I would avoid one as I feed my diamond goby roughly 3x a day on average but since mine is fat he just got a month of once a day but heavy feedings and looks great. Twin spots really need 5x feedings a day from what I hear.

 

[AC1211]

Hello and I hope everyone is doing well,

I have been researching the twin spot goby and I have head that it is very difficult to keep alive due to its picky feeding habits and that it is not very well fit for an aquarium and dies rather quickly.

Has anyone had any success with keeping one of these gobies alive for a significant amount of time?
What feeding methods/specific care did you use to keep them alive?
What about your tank helped this fish thrive?

Thank you for your input as I love to learn more and more about this hobby.

Most also come in unhealthy with intestinal worms which may be part of the feed heavy problem. I only have seen success with medicated foods with sand sifter gobies. Maybe a few never feed medicated foods and do well. I can say this I got my diamond goby pre qt from an LfS for $40 and I fed it medicated foods and still do to this day. If you want to feed medicated foods and note that these twin spot gobies have a higher metabolism then sure try but assume all have intestinal worms.