Best Goby

[reef keeper]

i have a 6 ft 150 g reef. I have some tangs and a blue throat trigger. I'd love to gave a goby and a shrimp or just some small gobies to spice it up.

My substrate is 2-3" of of aragonite. It's pretty fine but it's not sand

 

[TORX]

Not sure about the goby...but pretty sure that trigger will make a snack of a shrimp.

 

[reef keeper]

Ah. Dang

 

[theyangman]

The trigger will eat most crustaseans. Crabs, shrimps, even snails I have heard.

Now some people are going to say "I've had a coral banded shrimp in my tank for ages with my trigger" but those are more likely the exceptions rather than the rules. Can they co-exist? Sure, but most often they will become an expensive dinner.

 

[SamB]

Agreed
Neither the shrimp or goby would last long with the trigger

 

[derrick orosz]

I might just be mine but I have a blue throat in my tank with 2 blood shrimp and hes never looked twice at them

 

[theyangman]

Smaller shrimp stand a better chance as they can hide in nooks and crannies the trigger can't get too. Toss a larger shrimp or crab in there and tell me what happens. Lol

 

[reef keeper]

he never touched my emerald crabs, hermits or snails

 

[Cliff]

I love my yasha goby. In my old 150 I had a pistol shrimp with my trigger for years

 

[Giglio324]

I agree with yang. These are all exceptions, most likely the trigger will have something click in his head and see a quick snack

 

[reef keeper]

Thanks best to avoid a likely shrimp murder lol. I love that trigger so I'll avoid the temptation and look at more corals lol

 

[DerekL]

I have an engineering goby they start out small but mine now is over 12" long looks kinda like an eel. I also have a Niger trigger but got him when it was the size of a loonie and so far hasn't eaten my cleaner shrimp or any crabs or snails. Not to say it won't happen some day though. I love both of these fish and I like how the engineering goby looks like an eel but isn't. Check out the engineering gobies. As juveniles there colouring is different then adults so you will most likely find pictures of what looks like 2 totally different fish.

 

[heath]

I also have engineer gobies and they are neat fish, mine are big, 18" long and about 1.5" around the girth, stats say that they are not suppose to get that big, glad to hear that some else has big ones too.

 

[monizb]

Get a Sterry blenny or bi color blenny or the pistol shrimp my trigger never touched my shrimps witch a had for cleaners and pistols shrimp

 

[DerekL]

I also have engineer gobies and they are neat fish, mine are big, 18" long and about 1.5" around the girth, stats say that they are not suppose to get that big, glad to hear that some else has big ones too.

I love my engineering goby but it spends most of the time hiding under my rocks. He shoots out when feeding time comes and will come out and swim around when we have been sitting on the couch watching tv and there hasn't been movement for awhile. I will be setting up a 120 gallon tank soon and plan on trying to have my rock so that it can't spend so much time hiding under it. My engineering gobies girth is pretty big as well