possible to keep gobies together

[belle]

I remember reading somewhere that gobies can't really be kept together....

anyone here keeping more than one goby in their tank?

[Achilles Tang]

There are a few hundred gobie species in the world... I am sure a lot of them can get along. Territorial disputes is a factor not just among gobies but other fishes as well!

Just which kind are you thinking about?

[Dispar_Anthias]

There are a few hundred gobie species in the world... I am sure a lot of them can get along. Territorial disputes is a factor not just among gobies but other fishes as well!

Just which kind are you thinking about?

hey i kept a school of fire goby before

[belle]

midas, bicolour, strawberry or fire. maybe 2-3 of these? I find gobies very fascinating

[dradttg]

Sometime, I think it just depends on luck. If you are lucky the 2 fishes can get along.

For example, Mandarin are suppose to be peaceful but when I try keeping 2 of them, they killed each other.

I have saw people keeping 2 blue tang, 2 powder blue tang, etc.

[dradttg]

Forgot to add.

Personally, I feel that it will be good to keep a fish from each species so that there are more colour variation in the tank. (unless there is schooling requirement)

Keeping multiple fishes of the same type will use up the max bioload very fast.

[Dispar_Anthias]

Sometime, I think it just depends on luck. If you are lucky the 2 fishes can get along.

For example, Mandarin are suppose to be peaceful but when I try keeping 2 of them, they killed each other.

I have saw people keeping 2 blue tang, 2 powder blue tang, etc.

You are wrong, no 2 mandarin will tolerate each other in the same tank.. Unless they are a pair, even so fight may still occur... believe me, mandarin fight are lethal and brutal

[FuEl]

My tank is a goby tank.

Got yellow watchman, fire goby, purple decora goby, black striped high fin goby, yellow coral goby. Yellow watchman got a sri lankan tiger pistol shrimp..high fin goby got a red and yellow banded pistol shrimp.

teamates include one black-headed jawfish..and 2 sri lankan dragonets and bigbig YT.

[belle]

Goby community

[Dispar_Anthias]

So many fish

[FuEl]

So many fish

Missed out my Jann's pipefish and my other crustaceans..tink oso got 3 boxing crabs..1 bigbig blue spined lobster..and 2 ###### shrimp..

My things all small small one..hehe..

[Dispar_Anthias]

Missed out my Jann's pipefish and my other crustaceans..tink oso got 3 boxing crabs..1 bigbig blue spined lobster..and 2 ###### shrimp..

My things all small small one..hehe..

Ah lots of live stock i should say

[FuEl]

Yea..somemore still got lots of zoanthids and other corals..hehe..my tank is a high organic soup. yummy...

[blacknails]

Wow.. your tank really quite amazing!!

I read in many different places different opinion..

Some people say fire gobies are territorial some say there's no problem keeping 2 or 3 together...

So like can I get 3 fire goby and expect them to live peacefully together?

Hope can get some advise.. I wanna keep a school of fire goby..

[belle]

Yeah, got different ideas on this..... I also want to keep a few different kinds of gobies...

Anyone kept them together successfully.... (or unsucessfully?)

[Morgan]

midas, bicolour, strawberry or fire. maybe 2-3 of these? I find gobies very fascinating

Base on your description, think you are mixing gobies with blenny and dottyback

Find out exactly what type of fishes you really want.

Putting different type of the same species is not really advisable for dottyback and blennies ... will depend on the species

[FuEl]

3 firegobies? You can try..if you succeed you can tell me. I have tried. Ended up with 1 only. The sole survivor. MURDERER!

As for mixing different species of gobies..just make sure each goby gets their own deserved space.