Flaming Prawn Goby Plan

[NotReefsafe]

Today I purchased a flaming prawn goby for my 15 gallon. The tank is four years old with a pair of ocellaris, an orange spotted prawn goby, Xenia, GSP, torch, a huge alveopora colony, Duncan, zoas, and pipe organ.

My two worries for this guy are feeding and aggression. I very wrongly assumed that he would be too small for my other fish to care about, but he has been harassed by both clowns and other goby. I tried to make him a little safe haven in the corner, sheltered by empty hermit shells and corals, but the other fish remain aggressive.

As for feeding, the little info I can find says that a decent copepod population should be enough to sustain this fish. I am going to start dosing phyto and spot feed frozen pods as well.

Will he be okay in this tank long term or should I set up something specific for him?

 

[Bear22]

Today I purchased a flaming prawn goby for my 15 gallon. The tank is four years old with a pair of ocellaris, an orange spotted prawn goby, Xenia, GSP, torch, a huge alveopora colony, Duncan, zoas, and pipe organ.

My two worries for this guy are feeding and aggression. I very wrongly assumed that he would be too small for my other fish to care about, but he has been harassed by both clowns and other goby. I tried to make him a little safe haven in the corner, sheltered by empty hermit shells and corals, but the other fish remain aggressive.

As for feeding, the little info I can find says that a decent copepod population should be enough to sustain this fish. I am going to start dosing phyto and spot feed frozen pods as well.

Will he be okay in this tank long term or should I set up something specific for him?

They will not do well with any level of aggression from other fish doesn't matter the size. Not to say, that they can't do well with larger fish.

I have three in my medium size nano and they are out and about during the day doing their thing.

As far as feeding goes, I've only ever see them going after pods. They may be eating a small portion of frozen BBS that I feed. But it's hard to say because the BBS are small and the fish are small.

The tank boss and center piece fish is a rather large Exquisite Firefish (he's about 4-5 inches in size). And he pays the flaming prawns no attention and the flaming prawns are comfortable with his presence.