Flaming prong goby

[Gibb]

Anybody have experience keeping them in bigger tanks? I have one in a 13.5g but I have a 53g that’s done cycling and I’ve been dosing pods, phyto and some bacteria To get the population up for my pair of mandarins that’ll get moved over end of August. Anyway lol has anyone ever kept multiple in a bigger tank? I read that it can actually encourage them to come out more? Not sure how true that is, but I sorta wanna have my fish store try to get me 2 more and put them in the 53g. But that also limits what fish I can put in the tank. My list for the 53g is 2x bangai cardinals, 2x mandarin, 2x purple firefish, Midas blenny, white banded possum wrasse, 2 storm clowns and a baby tomini tang, but if I add fire prawns in then I assume I wouldn’t wanna add a tomini or the clowns as they can get agressive? Even the Midas has a chance to get agressive, would a leopard wrasse be a good tank mate if I do decide to try to get more flaming prawns and put them in the bigger tank? What’s everyone’s takes on this? What are some great tank mates for flaming prawns?

 

[smitten with ocean life]

@tbrown ?

 

[Kasrift]

I know little on them, but researched them before since they are cool. I think you are right that you'd have to do less aggressive tank mates. Leopard wrasse are super chill, so that shouldn't be a problem. I'd be concerned about powerheads and the overflow in a larger tank, they are tiny fish.

 

[tbrown]

Unfortunately no experience with these guys.

 

[Kasrift]

Fire fish, possum wrasse are great choices, as well as cardinals and mandarins. Leopard wrasse would be safe, maybe another type of blenny would be preferable. The ecsenius of blenny types would more peaceful. Maybe a type of smaller anthias would work as well.

In a smaller tank like that, you could also do a pipefish. Orange spotted filefish are peaceful, tilefish, there are quite a few types of fish that want low aggression.

 

[BloopFish]

Some cardinalfish will eat anything that swims by that fits in their mouth. Some get quite large. A little bit risky.

 

[Kasrift]

Some cardinalfish will eat anything that swims by that fits in their mouth. Some get quite large. A little bit risky.

I was kind of thinking that with banghaii cardinals, but I've never had them. There are cardinals with smaller mouths, like glass cardinals or orange striped that might be better.

 

[BloopFish]

I was kind of thinking that with banghaii cardinals, but I've never had them. There are cardinals with smaller mouths, like glass cardinals or orange striped that might be better.

Thing is the flaming prawn is so tiny that practically any cardinalfish available in the hobby will eventually grow large enough to eat them. I personally know someone who used to feed molly fry to stubborn banggai cardinals who refused to eat any prepared foods. I have even owned cardinalfish that are on the larger end that chased down smaller fish to eat. There are definitely safer options for a flaming prawn goby.