Tank mates for bumblebee goby?

I have had a brackish aquarium for 9 years a species aquarium with you guessed it-bumblebee gobies. I had my gobies for 7 years-the last ones past last november. I have restocked my aquarium with a new set of bumbles. I currently have 6 gobies.

Here's a few things that I have found. Tankmates-swordtails, mollies, platies, guppies, indian glassfish. I would avoid puffers. Netrite snails and shrimps i.e. cherry shrimp are fine too. I found that oscillating my water changes (brackish then fresh then brackish etc) seemed to be okay for them. If you want to have live plants go with crypt wendtii, jave ferns, crypt ciliata, water wisteria, hydro and java moss. Those plants can tolerate a brackish environment-just remember about the water changes. I have found them to be territorial but not overly aggressive towards each other. They will choose a spot and that is their little universe.

As far as food they LOVE live brine shrimp and will take frozen brine. Flakes and other foods are ignored. If you have other fish be advised that gobies don't move quickly so to make sure mine get fed I do a diversion. I add fish flakes at one side of the aquarium and the other end I drop the live brine shrimp in. ;)

Ur lfs was housing puffers with bumbles? Yicks for the bumbles. They just lumped them together because they are brackish.

I hope this helps! =)
 
My daughter has about 12 bumblebee gobies and they live happily with a puffer fish. He doesn't even pay attention to them. My lfs says he won't eat them because they don't "taste" good... How he knows this, I'm afraid I don't want to know!!
 
Normally in the wild, brightly colored creatures are left alone... when you announce your presence in a room with a bright yellow and black jacket you're saying "you don't want any of this".

I have 2 BB gobies in my completely freshwater planted 72. They have been in there for a year and are quite active, colorful and healthy. Tankmates are zebra danios, harlequin rasboras, panda corries, bristlenose plecos, Siamese algae eaters, snails, amano shrimp, and kuhli loaches. I have never seen one fish pay them any mind. I have seen them wrestle with an amano for a bloodworm from time to time. And they have a tendency to attack the snails' antennae like a small dog going after a rope, shaking their heads back and forth.

I feed a mix of frozen blood worms and brine shrimp from time to time but not enough to sustain them alone. They either forage around the tank for goodies or they have learned to take small flakes. I don't think I've ever seen one going after a flake like the others but that's not to say they never eat them.

A nice addition to my tank and I don't think you would need that many. From my own observations in my own tank they are quite solitary. I never see them swimming together. The times they do come close to one another no fighting has been observed....more of a "hey Frank, how's it going" kind of vibe.
 
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