Bumblebee Goby

[pkillur]

Does anyone out there have any experience having a bumblebee goby. Is there any way to wean it from brackish water and make it freshwater only? I would so very much like to own one, they're my favorite saltwater fish, and I recently found out there was a brackish variant...

[dmarcus]

hey i just had one in freshwater and it was ok for a little while (like 2 weeks) but its eating habits were difficult to accomidate in freshwater. See my post from a couple days ago, they really need live food. Theyre awesome little fish but honestly i wouldnt put them in freshwater. Maybe someone has a better suggestion, good luck.

[Osiris]

Yes, here's his post on BBG's including my input on them:

http://www.fishforums.com/forum/brac...-survival.html

[toadstoool]

I have a butterfly goby its in a 5gal.freshwater tank Ive had it for 4 months and all it will eat is ghost shrimp. I tried feeder guppies there still swinin around. It has grown some but I was told thy dont get much more than 2"

[flamingo]

Originally Posted by toadstoool

I have a butterfly goby its in a 5gal.freshwater tank Ive had it for 4 months and all it will eat is ghost shrimp. I tried feeder guppies there still swinin around. It has grown some but I was told thy dont get much more than 2"

And? lmao sorry just wondering why your posting about a butterfly goby (wasp fish) in a bumblebee goby thread. Btw, they are brackish fish too and are harder to keep then BB's, they are VERY hard to feed with most people.

Bumblebee gobies should be kept in brackish no matter what varient of them you get. Just like with most brackish fish with varients, one like more freshwater, one likes mild brackish, and one likes very salty. It's best to just go for a sG of 1.005-1.010.

Pretty easy to care for when you have the right conditions and plenty of different foods to offer. I've had like a million of the little dudes, but either they died from not eating or would disappear. Most of the ones I kept were when I first started keeping fish but my latest would have to be a year ago. I had a little group of three, they did fine but ending up getting killed or something, I can't really remember to tell you the truth.

First rule: either they attack the other fish in the tank, or they get attacked themselves. THat's usually what happens unless you go for dragon gobies, flounders, and the like. I had two attack a knife fish, that was about 20 times their size.