Dracula Goby

I was looking around for a while on 3reef and on the internet for fish stuff and I stumbled across this guy:



It's called a dracula goby and it does look pretty awesome but of course the price tag always crushes my vision of having one lol $130... Kind of like the Helfrichi firefish I also want:



Ehhh kind of pissed off by the price lol.

 

Get a high fin red banded goby. It looks very similar yet is very affordable. (They are noted jumpers unless they are paired with a pistol shrimp so have a lid)

 

Yes.

Get the cheaper goby and the cheaper firefish. They are just as cool, save your money for tank upgrades.

When I started this hobby blue damsels facinated me and honestly still do. The only fish I ever paid a high price for was the blue spotted jaw fish.

 

those fish are very pretty but really damn expensive

 

yeah you're right but if they're that similar why such a difference in price???

 

If you collect 300 hi fin gobies for every 1 dracula, yet there's nearly as much demand for the dracula as the hi fin, it's going to cost more.

Pricing almost never has to do with color alone when you deal with fish, it has to do with the number that are collected and bred in the hobby.

 

ehh good point I guess. can the hi fin pair up with a pisot, shrimp? and if so what species?

 

Alpheidae genus shrimp. You can pretty much take your pick.

 

ok awesome!

 

IF you get a fish thats notorious for jumping (only read the first few comments), then try this for a 29 biocube.
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