Stiphodon Goby Food

Hey everyone! So I’ve had a Stiphodon Goby for about a month now, he’s thriving in my 10 gallon planted, and I haven’t seen him eat anything other than biofilm and algae EXCEPT for today! I went to my Lfs to pick up some frozen brine shrimp for my DG and I decided to pick up some HikarI sinking wafers for my cory cats. I put the wafers in and after the cory cat as well as my DG(he’s greedy) started attacking Gobstopper(my stiphodon gobby) started GOING TO TOWN on the bits they were producing! I feed my fish frozen blood worms, Tetra high color tropical flakes, hikarI high protein pellets, frozen brine shrimp, and national geographic sinking algae wafers and I’ve never seen Gobstopper eat anything before these HakarI pellets!

 

Lucky, mine usually ignore wafers! They do love repashy soilent green, for aufwuchs eaters.... seen mine go after daphnia as well, that surprised me!


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Oh, and welcome to fishlore!

 

I’m definitely going to pick up daphnia then!! I want to try plankton as well!!

 

Careful how much live foods you feed them or you starve the bacteria in his stomach that breaks down his food. If you have some algae growth in the tank, a 10 gallon should feed a single Stiphodon.

 

Agreed, the occasional treat is fine but stiphodons are primarily biofilm grazers...

 

I’ll definitely keep that in mind! The cory cats and Fawkes eat the tablets pretty quick and I don’t feed too much of them because I don’t want to over feed so he mainly eats biofilm but when I feed the cats I see him eating bits of the pieces that fly away! And thank you for the advice with the frozen feeding, I’ll definitely make sure to incorporate it less!

 

Also I’m not planning on adding anymore gobies until I upgrade the tank!