Masked Gobies Spawned

[9Trees29gal]

I have a pair of masked Gobies in a 3 gallon pico tank and they decided to become a breeding pair! I know Gobies in general are pretty willing to spawn in captivity, but not sure if anyone has observed this with masked Gobies?

 

[clifg]

Awesome!

 

[taricha]

Nice! I had five of them in my tank at one point, and did not see any spawning. Well done.

 

[dennis romano]

Nice! I have four and they are starting to pair up.

 

[brandon429]

In a 3 gallon pico that's a record I bet for smallest gallonage marine fish reproduction
In twenty years at nano reef.com we never saw that

We saw tubastrea reproduce but not marine fish

Today's reefs get a lot of blame for making dinos a popular challenge when reefs of decades past didn't have them

The ironic tradeoff is all the fish breeding going on now, unheard of back in the day except for rare clowns

 

[9Trees29gal]

In a 3 gallon pico that's a record I bet for smallest gallonage marine fish reproduction
In twenty years at nano reef.com we never saw that

We saw tubastrea reproduce but not marine fish

Today's reefs get a lot of blame for making dinos a popular challenge when reefs of decades past didn't have them

The ironic tradeoff is all the fish breeding going on now, unheard of back in the day except for rare clowns

Yeah, I was quite surprised, especially as this is obviously not a pristine tank, but it's teaming with microscopic life, so maybe that's what the Gobies liked.

 

[brandon429]

I directly was thinking that

scuba divers see what you see, not what we carve most reefs down to

the only time I got to dive was in the caymans in 96, and all rock areas looked like that. only years later after reef hobby was I able to identify what I'd seen

but all rocks look like that

something has to feed grazers and provide feed, we mostly strip the reefs down to coralline only which doesn't house all the same pods as plants/extra territory will

probably provides camo the fish can sense safely. Ive never seen egglaying fish undertake work in a marine pico of 3 gallons not in twenty years straight online nerding on picos. that's a nice job.

 

[ThRoewer]

In a 3 gallon pico that's a record I bet for smallest gallonage marine fish reproduction
In twenty years at nano reef.com we never saw that

We saw tubastrea reproduce but not marine fish

Today's reefs get a lot of blame for making dinos a popular challenge when reefs of decades past didn't have them

The ironic tradeoff is all the fish breeding going on now, unheard of back in the day except for rare clowns

There was actually someone on RC who had a spawning pair of Stonogobiops nematodes with matching pistol shrimp in a 1 or 2 gallon jar. I think he even tried to breed them.

 

[Jeffo.it]

are you preparing yourself for the larval breeding ?

 

[ackshee]

Were you able to successfully raise the fry?