Ten Freshwater Goby Fish You Should Keep in Your Aquarium

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  • @SteenfottAquatics
    @SteenfottAquatics  2 роки тому +9

    Need some Gobies for your tanks? Get some here dansfish.com/ref/steenfottaquatics
    Hope you enjoy the video, this is an aff link.

    • @Fishcentral
      @Fishcentral 2 роки тому +1

      i'm sooooo ordering some of these from Dans fish!

  • @valiaudet3415
    @valiaudet3415 2 роки тому +19

    Goby faces are precious. Everyone must want the blue 💙 neon ones

    • @amysteiner140
      @amysteiner140 2 роки тому +1

      They are the best! I had a few in the past and loved their goofy antics. I wanted to breed them but after the research... haha... seems impossible.

  • @fansaaga4033
    @fansaaga4033 8 місяців тому +3

    The rhinogobius you’ve shown can be bred in freshwater, they normally go to the ocean but in Hong Kong when they get trapped in reservoirs they can still bred. I used to catch them there

  • @MegaMindyLou
    @MegaMindyLou 2 роки тому +15

    I love my neon blue gobies I got from Dan. Their little salamander faces are so cute. My only complaint is I only see them at feeding time in my heavily planted tank. ❤️

    • @amysteiner140
      @amysteiner140 2 роки тому +4

      They hide so well lol... all my favorite fish do. Maybe that's why we love them so much? Absence makes the heart grow fonder?

    • @davidaix5771
      @davidaix5771 Рік тому +1

      Yeah the hillstream loaches do the same thing and so do those tie crabs that I love

  • @mr_e_mc2
    @mr_e_mc2 10 місяців тому +4

    So observation on the Stiphodon gobies in particular for flow preference, I have kept a lot of the atropurpureus species (My Favorite) as well as semoni and ornatus and the tank setup that they seemed to be the most happy / active / visible in was a hybrid tank that had a fiberglass insert with a combination of shallow fast moving sections waterfalls and deep slow moving sections with high turnover, The gobis in this setup would always be out and exploring climbing all over the place and super active plus color up faster and vibrantly than standard tanks with a single water option (Fast or slow only) The insert was from a company called river tank systems that went out of business back in the late 90's early 2k's but would not be too difficult to reproduce with some DIY expanding foam and a little ingenuity or maby a shelf tank that has a shallow top section and a deep drop off etc.... But again having super fast shallows with rock bottoms and deep slow areas with sand those gobis behavior changed so dramatically and became super interactive and my all time favorite fish to keep.

  • @tanganyikatuna
    @tanganyikatuna Рік тому +3

    I have a couple of Stiphodon goby's in my nano tank with my shrimp and guppy's... love them

  • @crittergirl3647
    @crittergirl3647 2 роки тому +2

    Thanks for this. Getting Dan’s input on suggested tank sizes would have been a bonus.

  • @Allyourbase1990
    @Allyourbase1990 Рік тому +1

    Symbiotic relationships are so cool. And gobies are so cool the way they clean sand

  • @TheHemiphil81
    @TheHemiphil81 8 місяців тому

    I have 6 different gobies in my 300 gallon acro reef tank and they are some of my favorite fish. I had never seen freshwater gobies until I saw these and they are just as beautiful.

  • @newmexicoaquatics282
    @newmexicoaquatics282 2 роки тому +2

    Fantastic tour. Ya gotta love Dan! Thank you both! - Little Bobby

  • @MattsAquatics
    @MattsAquatics 2 роки тому +11

    I love gobies, even though I've never kept them

    • @jaykayguns
      @jaykayguns 11 місяців тому

      Yea Ferraris drive real good. I’ve never driven one yet

  • @caewalker9276
    @caewalker9276 2 роки тому +1

    Gobies are just sooo cool. Thanks Dan and Bob.

  • @CricketsMa
    @CricketsMa 2 роки тому +2

    Oh my gosh! How can anything be so darn cute?!? 😍

  • @pelhamsaquatics
    @pelhamsaquatics 2 роки тому +2

    Very cool looking fish! Deffinately something to think about keeping, thanks bob🙂👍🏻

  • @vampgaia
    @vampgaia 2 роки тому +2

    Gobies are awesome. I want them all! I hope your surgery goes well.

  • @QueAquatics
    @QueAquatics 2 роки тому +4

    Video!!! Wootwoot I need more gobies in my life

  • @legionaquatics
    @legionaquatics 2 роки тому +3

    I love my blue neon goby it’s so fun to watch and is always active, sadly I got a female so it doesn’t have the bright blue so I think I’m gonna need to get a male.

  • @ajsaracina8380
    @ajsaracina8380 2 роки тому +2

    Love these fish, definitely on my short list

  • @maryminenko3740
    @maryminenko3740 2 роки тому +1

    Wow what amazing fish another fish that need a tight lid the first lot where magnificent

  • @mattdowling955
    @mattdowling955 2 роки тому +2

    Great video. I'm yet to keep goby's but I'm keen now

  • @mingbritson
    @mingbritson 2 роки тому +1

    I will have many of these someday...great video, Bob, + great fish, Dan!!!

  • @niva8043
    @niva8043 2 роки тому +2

    I love blue fish so the blue neons were my favorite. Can you put different species of gobies in the same aquarium?

  • @upserlivinthedream
    @upserlivinthedream 2 роки тому +1

    I'm definitely loving the zeon blues!! 😍

  • @craigquinn8225
    @craigquinn8225 2 роки тому +2

    my lipstick gobies will eat anything I put in the tank. from frozen to flake and everything in between lol. very Hardy. but I was wondering why my neon gobies weren't showing their neon as much. Great advice from Dan. I recommend dragon gobies aswell 👌. I'm also waiting on annies gobies getting delivered to my lfs but I've ordered them 😆. gobies are by far my favourite fish

  • @baltik1715
    @baltik1715 2 роки тому +7

    This is my experience with gobies:
    Short lifespan, unable to breed in captivity, very expensive, almost never with those colours as we see online, even after a year in aquariums ... Not so active (but very interesting when active🙂).

    • @Summer4infinity
      @Summer4infinity 2 роки тому +2

      Short lived? I’ve got a neon-blue that’s at least 6 years old, if not older.

    • @baltik1715
      @baltik1715 2 роки тому +1

      @@Summer4infinity Not sure how, their lifespan is around 2 years.
      I had a cat for 25yrs, but i wouldn say that's all cats average lifespan...
      Or you are talking about marine neon goby? 😂

    • @Summer4infinity
      @Summer4infinity 2 роки тому +3

      @@baltik1715 he could be an anomaly. The others only lived 3 to 4 years, plus most of my pets do tend to live longer than the average lifespan. My cat lived to be 19, and my female Banggai Cardinal lived nearly 9 years (yes, the goby I have is freshwater ~
      s. atropurpureus).

    • @baltik1715
      @baltik1715 2 роки тому +1

      @@Summer4infinity That is great. Well there is a lot of factors there... I am from Serbia and these fish cannot be bred in captivity. When they arrive here they are already in bad shape...

    • @Summer4infinity
      @Summer4infinity 2 роки тому +1

      @@baltik1715 I could see how that would affect their lifespan. Is it difficult to be in the aquarium hobby in Serbia? I live in a tiny town in the US, but can get a pretty decent selection of healthy fish, I just have to drive a couple of hours away.

  • @Fishcentral
    @Fishcentral 2 роки тому +2

    Thanks for this vid!

  • @503Aquatics
    @503Aquatics 2 роки тому +2

    Excuse me sir, can I get 6 of everything? 😂 Great video! Thanks for sharing.

  • @Jaygandr
    @Jaygandr 2 місяці тому

    It's possible to breed mudskippers and freshwater gobies it's just not very feasible it requires specialized systems to either create a tide or a stream

  • @rakasa7684
    @rakasa7684 4 місяці тому +1

    I often sell Gobi fish like that

  • @SlickNick3
    @SlickNick3 2 роки тому

    Excited to see the barcheek gobies you got Bob! Would be awesome if you get them breeding down the road I’d love to see a batch grow up

  • @DavidJHarrisonEssex
    @DavidJHarrisonEssex Рік тому

    Interesting video, lovely fish.
    I was thinking of keeping Gobies - Gudgeon's & Blenny's together. What do you think? 🇬🇧

  • @lyndonwright282
    @lyndonwright282 2 роки тому +1

    I even catch quite a few of them in our country 🇹🇹

  • @JohnDoe-cd6ro
    @JohnDoe-cd6ro Рік тому +1

    Can I keep a single Stiphodon Goby in a community tank or do they require being in groups?

  • @wuv2quilt
    @wuv2quilt 11 місяців тому +1

    I already knew how great gobies are. I have 10 different types of gobies!

  • @GROCK619
    @GROCK619 2 роки тому +1

    Nice work fellas!!

  • @ESF19791111
    @ESF19791111 2 роки тому

    LOOKING GOO:D
    I HAVE LEARNED A BIT MORE ABOUT GOBY :)
    THANK YOU FROM ISRAEL :)

  • @darrylmoore5847
    @darrylmoore5847 2 роки тому +1

    That was awesome.

  • @tinadoyle3803
    @tinadoyle3803 Рік тому

    Do bl8ue neon gobies like live food ie bbs bloodworms chopped and white worms chopped also tubifex ? I have good quality flake and small pellets plus algae guss I just want too mix it up for them. Tia.

  • @parsataherkhani8922
    @parsataherkhani8922 Рік тому

    I have blue gobies in my fish tank but I always worry about they going to eat my golden shrimps 😢are they going to eat them?

  • @evita1643
    @evita1643 2 роки тому +1

    Are there any gobies that can be bred in an aquarium? Without an crazy specific setup?

    • @evita1643
      @evita1643 2 роки тому

      13:28 already answered my question lol

    • @agnediciuniene9861
      @agnediciuniene9861 Рік тому +2

      Chlamydogobius eremius. Extremely hardy. Extremely easy to breed. Full of character.
      Disadvantage - short lifespan. So you have to breed them to maintain them. And one batch has something like 50 or more of fry.
      Fry are big enough to start in microworms and brine shrimp

  • @kathleenmonsegue9700
    @kathleenmonsegue9700 Рік тому

    Do the red and stripy ones live peacefully with dwarf shrimp and the shrimplettes?

  • @chrisrusso4512
    @chrisrusso4512 9 місяців тому

    Will the grazers eat planaria and leaches?

  • @RobsAquariumRoom
    @RobsAquariumRoom 2 роки тому

    Cool goby. Thumbs up

  • @beccawilkins7350
    @beccawilkins7350 5 місяців тому

    The orange fin one looks like a tiny butterfly fish without the big wings

  • @englishtime5327
    @englishtime5327 Рік тому

    Shame I can't put a video. I put pebbles in my outdoor pond let the algae and bio film form and then put them in the aquarium. My gobies love them

  • @kathleenmonsegue9700
    @kathleenmonsegue9700 Рік тому

    Are blue stupid on gobies easy to breed in the fish tank?

  • @markfranklin8831
    @markfranklin8831 2 роки тому

    Can the goby fish live together in planted tanks? TIA

    • @SteenfottAquatics
      @SteenfottAquatics  2 роки тому

      As long as there is enough room for them to have their own territories.

  • @somdov
    @somdov Рік тому

    What a great video

  • @Nigelaquaticsfish
    @Nigelaquaticsfish Місяць тому

    6:32 there actually orange rifle goby’s

  • @awain6566
    @awain6566 3 місяці тому

    These goby need salt water to breed?

    • @SteenfottAquatics
      @SteenfottAquatics  3 місяці тому

      Some gobies lay their eggs in rivers. That then get washed out to the sea and when they hatch they feed on micro organisms in the salt water. And as they grow they migrate back to freshwater.

  • @atomic_inkjections4724
    @atomic_inkjections4724 2 роки тому +3

    We need a fresh water mandarin

  • @PULAG
    @PULAG 8 місяців тому

    Need a freshwater pistol shrimp please

  • @elvinsworld11
    @elvinsworld11 2 роки тому

    Lovely

  • @johnnydepp069
    @johnnydepp069 Рік тому

    Can i keep rhinogoby with oscars

  • @stevendunn264
    @stevendunn264 2 роки тому

    What ever happened to the freshwater Flounders that were in the hobby for a while?

    • @wabalaka1565
      @wabalaka1565 2 роки тому +1

      I thought they are close to extinct. Those freshwater flounder are native to my country we eat them as food. About 10-15 years ago they disappear never see them in market these day. They disappear very suddenly no one know why.

    • @amysteiner140
      @amysteiner140 2 роки тому +1

      Whaaaa? Freshwater flounders? I want one haha 😄

    • @SteenfottAquatics
      @SteenfottAquatics  2 роки тому +2

      I see them on wholesale lists every once in awhile.

  • @echoesvayne9790
    @echoesvayne9790 2 роки тому

    Nope... I want rainbow darters... these were all nice fish, but I want some natives

    • @alekkoomanoff7281
      @alekkoomanoff7281 7 місяців тому

      That makes sense. We don't appreciate what we have I our own backyards sometimes. Also ,there are laws regulating keeping natives which can make it harder.

  • @jonnyboom5993
    @jonnyboom5993 2 роки тому +41

    If it cant be captive bred, it shouldn't be in the hobby.

    • @roland_the_cursor
      @roland_the_cursor 2 роки тому +7

      I don't agree. Hatchetfish make great tankmates and the only ones proven to breed are the marbles, some of the more timid and shortest-lived in the hobby. Silvers can live 5-7 years and I really love mine, as they're model citizens.

    • @absolutelyunepic3072
      @absolutelyunepic3072 Рік тому +12

      He says with the NPC profile pic lol

    • @agnediciuniene9861
      @agnediciuniene9861 Рік тому +4

      Agree.

    • @888fluffy
      @888fluffy 10 місяців тому +11

      Disagree.
      Unlike reef fish, which are often valued for their rarity, freshwater fish are less monetarily valuable, so it's about numbers. Fisherman have an incentive to manage their habitat in a way that generates large numbers of these fish.
      And but unlike fishing for food, pet trade fishing techniques need to be delicate because the fish need to survive. This also prevent destructive irresponsible overfishing.
      Pet trade fishing is almost entirely done by locals, proving income for peoples who can directly protect the habitat, instead of large fishing companies.
      Yes there are still ethical problems with taking fish form the wild (I absolutely disagree with collecting rare fish). But if you eat fish, that is much, much worse. Not to mention that the pet trade protects habitat that would otherwise be drained for farming.

    • @carterd80501
      @carterd80501 8 місяців тому +3

      So no more ottos?

  • @niranjannayak8577
    @niranjannayak8577 2 місяці тому

    No govil lal nylon fishinka namhe