"blove" wrote in message .. .
they are brackish fish and wont live long in freshwater. they are also
filter feeders and ive read that they love algae wafers. here is the sites
that i found before on them. found on
http://www.wetwebmedia.com/BrackishS...acgobioids.htm " Gobioides
broussonenti Lacepede 1800, the Dragon Eel/Goby, Violet Goby (3). Western
Atlantic, Carolinas to Brazil, Gulf of Mexico. To twenty inches in length
(largest Caribbean Goby). A difficult fish to keep due to its feeding
strategy of filtering planktonic organisms. " found this on tropical fish
forums. " Some sites will tell you that violet gobies aka dragon gobies will
eat small fish but IMO this is rubbish. They have huge mouths with what look
like teeth protruding from the front of the jaw but are actually filter
feeders which feed by taking in gulps of water and filtering the water
through the gill rakers to sieve out tiny particals of food. We have one in
a 55 community with small fish and have never had one eaten, the goby
struggles with large bloodworms let alone being able to swallow fish. This
is where the tricky biy comes in, since they are filter feeders they are
difficult to feed and need special care to keep alive. They will not take
pellet or flake foods and will need to be fed small live or frozen foods
every day, daphia, brineshrimp, black mosquito larvae, glassworm and
bloodworms will all be eaten. "
http://sunflower.bio.indiana.edu/~sholtzma/fish.html
http://boeing_dude.tripod.com/id234.htm

http://species.fishindex.com/species...olet_goby.html
http://www.whozoo.org/Anlife2001/joh...dragonfish.htm
hope this helps.


Thank you so much for the info! Since he is small, and since I have
always in the back of my mind wanted a brackish water tank, I think
that I might look into starting up and maintaining a brackish water
tank.

Am going to start hatching brine shrimp right away.

Thanks,

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