Friday, July 30, 2010
Posted by Sarah on August 5, 2008
Our Australian Desert Goby Fry are doing great!
We have 8 of them, and it looks like we have 2 or 3 males, but we aren’t really sure yet.
Two of the males have been showing their adult color for about 3 weeks, and one of them has claimed a cave, which he vigorously defends against all the other gobies – especially the males.
I’m pretty sure that one day soon we’ll see some eggs in there, and I can’t waitl
Posted by Sarah on June 4, 2008
The Australian Desert Gobies are still doing fine, although they have a few snail friends in their tank.
It’s so much fun to watch them hop around when there’s food in the tank, and it’s really nice to be able to see them when we aren’t two inches away from the tank.
Most of them are about an inch long now, and they’re eating crushed flake food.
It’s so exciting to see them grow.
The picture is of one of the Australian Desert Gobies in a 10 gallon tank, they’re still pretty small aren’t they?
Posted by Sarah on May 20, 2008
It’s been a long couple of weeks.
My adult australian desert gobies died.
This was somewhat expected, since we’ve had them since the end of January, and they were about full grown then.
These fish are considered to be annuals by most of the people I know that have them, because they only live for twelve to eighteen months.
You’d think that knowing they would die fast would make it easier, but it didn’t.
It still makes me sad to think about it.
In addition to that our Green Spotted Puffers died.
When we got them they seemed to be plump and fat, and healthy.
And they seemed to be the same right up to the end.
Spot and Stripe died about a week apart – the water conditions and everything were fine, and they were swimming around happily, and eagerly eating in the morning, and in the afternoon they were dead.
I don’t know what happened.
I did read about Green Spotted Puffer disease, where the puffers got a black spot on them, then stopped eating and died within 36 hours, but we didn’t notice a black spot on them, and they were both eating the day they died.
Like most cases in fish deaths we’ll probably never know what happened with the puffers.
Green spotted puffers aren’t successfully bred in captivity, so most of them were wild caught.
That probably had something to do with it.
Who knows.
I do know that we recently saw some Green Spotted Puffers that looked happy and healthy swimming around at a local store, where they’d been happy and healthy for two weeks.
It was fun to watch them for a few minutes but I’m not ready for another one anytime soon.
I told my husband that I’m over my love affair with fish since my favorite fish died within a couple of weeks of each other.
Then I told him I’m holding out for seahorses.
Anybody got a 35 gallon column tank for sale?
Posted by Sarah on April 3, 2008
Here are our two female Australian Desert Gobies sitting together on a cave.
The cave is painted green and blue, but it does have some algae on it.
