Orangespotted Sleeper Goby / Valenclennae puellaris

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SCIENTIFIC NAME - Valenclennae puellaris

COMMON NAME - Orangespotted 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.
 

WHICH PART OF YOUR SETUP IS HARDEST TO REACH OR REMOVE FOR ROUTINE MAINTENANCE?

  • Glass behind or beside the tank

    Votes: 11 19.3%
  • Powerheads or wavemakers

    Votes: 4 7.0%
  • Sump or rear filtration chambers

    Votes: 9 15.8%
  • Skimmer or other filtration equipment

    Votes: 8 14.0%
  • Overflow or plumbing

    Votes: 10 17.5%
  • Lights or lids

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Mine is pretty easy to access!

    Votes: 14 24.6%
  • Other—tell us what I missed

    Votes: 1 1.8%
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