Yellow watchman pair question

Kapachuka3 · Feb 23, 2021

Has anybody ever had ywg pair have babies, I have two of them and i havent seen 1 for a while and when i do its with the other one kinda hiding underneath the same rock as the other, seem normal?

Wolf89 · Feb 23, 2021

Kapachuka3 said:
Has anybody ever had ywg pair have babies, I have two of them and i havent seen 1 for a while and when i do its with the other one kinda hiding underneath the same rock as the other, seem normal?

Most likely has eggs. Without intervention, you will never see a baby

ThePurple12 · Feb 23, 2021

Once I lifted up the rock that my watchman gobies lived under, and sure enough there was a clump of eggs. I sometimes only see one of them as well. Like Wolf said, you won't see any babies.

Kapachuka3 · Feb 23, 2021

ThePurple12 said:
Once I lifted up the rock that my watchman gobies lived under, and sure enough there was a clump of eggs. I sometimes only see one of them as well. Like Wolf said, you won't see any babies.

Why won’t I see babies, will they die and if so how can I make them survive

ThePurple12 · Feb 23, 2021

Kapachuka3 said:
Why won’t I see babies, will they die and if so how can I make them survive

For one thing they’re extremely small, guessing a few mm. They hatch at night. everything in your tank will eat them, and the filtration and powerheads will kill them.They need to eat tiny rotifers to survive, and need to be raised in a separate tank.

That’s why :D

hds4216 · Feb 23, 2021

Here's an article on breeding YWG: http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2005-12/ft/index.php

Spoiler: getting them to pair is the easy part.

Kapachuka3 · Feb 23, 2021

ThePurple12 said:
For one thing they’re extremely small, guessing a few mm. They hatch at night. everything in your tank will eat them, and the filtration and powerheads will kill them.They need to eat tiny rotifers to survive, and need to be raised in a separate tank.

That’s why :D

Dang that’s really sad