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SCIENTIFIC NAME - Valenclennea sexguttata
COMMON NAME - Sixspot Sleeper Goby
SIZE - 5.5" ( 14 cm)
MIN. AQUARIUM SIZE - 55 US Gal. (208 L)
FOODS AND FEEDING - Difficult to feed, varied diet of meaty foods, small crustaceans, vitamin enriched live and frozen brine shrimp, mysid shrimp, live black worms, prepared marine fare for carnivores
REEF COMPATIBILITY - Will eat bristleworms, desirable infaunal invertebrates in live sand
CAPTIVE CARE - Will stir substrate in reef systems, usually do not get enough to eat and starve to death, Keep in a tank with live sand and a well established refugium, feed well, deworming may help, will show aggression towards other sleeper gobies, keep only one or a male female pair.
