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.
 

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