The Puffer Forum

Hokay.

There are dragon gobies at the LFS I go to all the time.

I had another thread where I asked about the type of gobies that could go with a puffer, etc. etc. etc.

Anyway, I'm not buying anything before I know that I can care for it...

I'm finding much conflicting info.


Can they be acclimated to full marine? I don't have a full marine tank, but I need to know this., Some places say yes, some say no.

I know someone here will know....

I'm not sure whether Knight Gobies go full marine, I don't remember reading anything about it. They are however high end brackish fish, the same as a GSP.

GSPs can go full marine when adult but I don't beleive this is essential, as long as they're in high brackish.

The only problem you have is whether you can find one which won't consider the knight goby as food eventually.

There may be other high end brackish puffers which are less aggressive but I can't think of any.

Gragon Gobies are not the same fish as knights. Why do you want to go SW with them? I definately would not put them w/GSPs. Mine seems ok w/F8s though.

The Violet Dragon gobies can get really big - really long - like over a foot. You'd need to take that into account as far as tank size.

Also, they have poor eyesight and special care would have to be taken to see that they are not outcompeted for food.

Other brackish gobies, besides the knights are the bumble bee, silver (sometimes called candy striped), and silver banded. These gobies are smaller in size than the Violet Goby. I did have a couple of candy striped gobies in my 70 gallon with GSP's...I haven't been able to locate the Gobies in a very long time.

But I don't want to know about JUST brackish gobies...I want to know about a goby that I could have with my GSP, that could end up in full marine with her.

I don't want a different puffer or anything like that.

I know dragon gobies can get big. I just wanted to know if I could keep one with a GSP.

I know the issue of fin nipping got brought up in another thread... I know how big they get and I know about the eyesight. I just want to know if one could be kept with a GSP, but I guess not?

I won't go putting anything in her tank that I don't feel secure with.

I wouldn't keep any slow-moving, sedentary creatures w/a GSP.

Yeah, you're right. Puffers are too silly for that kind of thing.

Oooohhh..I don't know about silly...I prefer lean mean killin' machine myself.
Well..not so much lean as zeppelin-shaped, but you get my drift, right?
Pami.

LOL! "Lean"? I am so glad that you hedged that a bit...

Good Goby site, http://members.ozemail.com.au/~thebobo/goby.htm#menu, by Richard Mleczko.

Having had dragon gobies I would say that they do best in groups of six and are very safe to keep with small fish, they eat insect larva and other plankton. They are not aggrerssive but get very long.