Diamond Goby Feeding

[bensoo00]

Hello! I have a diamond goby and I am a bit worried as every time I feed him pellets, they just go right through his gills as he sifts the sand. He is only about 2-3 inches and the LFS showed me he ate pellets, but he won’t eat them now for some reason. I’ve ordered some Ocean Nutrition formula 2 as well as PE mysis pellets but I am unsure what else would be potentially effective. He has a small curve on his belly when looking at him from the side but he is generally healthy looking from top down and it doesn’t look like he’s starving, so I don’t know if he is actually taking bits of the pellets every sift or not as they are too small for me to tell.

 

[Troylee]

Mine loves frozen mysis or brine or anything I feed my fish.. he’s not a big pellet eater.

 

[bensoo00]

Mine loves frozen mysis or brine or anything I feed my fish.. he’s not a big pellet eater.

Do you think freeze dried mysis shrimp would be any good? I have trouble obtaining the frozen ones.

 

[Troylee]

Do you think freeze dried mysis shrimp would be any good? I have trouble obtaining the frozen ones.

I’m sure that’s fine.. I feed my tank that also here or there.. mine I think solely lives off the dirty sand and eats here or there when the fish are in a frenzy.

 

[fodsod]

The 3 I have eat everything. You might try 1mm pellets if you haven't yet. They love frozen mysis shrimp also.

Based on what I've read, they get a lot of their nutrition from sifting the sand. So any food that sits in the sand will eventually break down and they'll get the nutrients when they sift that area.

 

[nereefpat]

I would keep trying different sizes of pellets, flakes, and also different frozen and freeze dried until you find something.

They don't always eat prepared foods.

 

[RedoubtReef]

Frozen mysis for mine as well. He loves 'em.

 

[bensoo00]

Here’s my little fella, is he looking good? Some mysis on the way tomorrow, hopefully it’ll be good.

 

[KStatefan]

Mine likes frozen mysis also and LRS.

 

[q8cyu]

Mine seems to like frozen foods and the seaweed I feed my tangs. Don’t know if he eats the seaweed but he tries

Here he is the clip has seaweed. It’s hard to see

 

[kevgib67]

Mine eats everything frozen, flake, and pellets. I’m pretty sure if I threw a chicken nugget in it would be devoured. I would suggest frozen mysis and brine.