Very Small Yellow Watchman Goby

[aLu]

I have two smaller then an inch yellow watchman goby. I am trying to see if I can get a pair and they are currently in quarantine. My question is should I wait until they are bigger before putting in their final 90 gallon home? I have some emeralds and hermits in there so I am nervous with how small they are. Any opinions or insight from others with similar issues?

 

[Grapefruit509]

i dont think emeralds or hermits would bother them, watch overflows though since they very smol

 

[JayRozzer]

Recently went through this exact same thing after receiving one way smaller than I thought it would be. I’m fairly confident one of my other fish ate it. Thing was tiny.

 

[attiland]

I have two smaller then an inch yellow watchman goby. I am trying to see if I can get a pair and they are currently in quarantine. My question is should I wait until they are bigger before putting in their final 90 gallon home? I have some emeralds and hermits in there so I am nervous with how small they are. Any opinions or insight from others with similar issues?

I think your issue not so much the crabs but the other fish in the tank. Such a small fish gets bullied easily.

not with this particular fish but I have introduced significantly smaller fish and they had to go to almost constant hiding in the beginning so the question is more like if there is enough safe space for them.

 

[ariellemermaid]

I’m in a similar situation because live aquaria sent a YWG instead of the blenny I ordered. As others have said, I think it comes down to the fish rather than the crabs. YWG’s are half-decent swimmers, they shouldn’t have a problem getting away from crabs. If you’ve just got clowns, cardinals, firefish, things like that I wouldn’t worry too much.

One option is to go ahead and buy a pistol shrimp and add it at the same time. That way it can pair and have protection in a burrow. Whether the two fish pair together or not depends on a lot of things including sex and luck. I’ve found they’re really terrible at burrowing without a shrimp, and that’s definitely their happy place. Without a shrimp my current YWG would just free swim at the water line, on the side of the glass, etc. This new one is doing the same thing despite having a little bowl of sand and PVC pieces it could use in the QT tank.

 

[aLu]

Thank you for the responses and I had read that gobies sex change as long as they are young so figured I would give it a shot. I have two clowns, two pajamas, and a powder brown in the DT. Quarantine has the two gobies plus a 6 line and sail fin tang the only one seeming interested in them is the tang but only one of the gobies. They have PVC to hide in during quarantine. Also thank you for the info on the shrimp as I didn’t know they couldn’t creat their own burrows. Maybe I will just fee out the next week or two with quarantine to see if I should throw them in a little 10 gallon for a few months. Also want them close to each other to see if this bonding is going to work or not.