Should i get engineer gobys?

Maybe if you pay for them now, they will hold them till after you move?

My fish all survived my move easily. Actually it was more like two moves. I was upgrading tanks and moving to a new apartment simoultaneously. I moved to a new apartment and setup a tub on the floor to keep all the livestock until the tank was ready and stable. So they moved from the old tank, to the tub for around 2 weeks, to the new tank. I temp acclimated them and dripped them both types, and they didn't have a problem at all. Fish are actually pretty hardy. The coral did fine too. It might be worse if you were moving them on a daily basis or something like that, but in a few week intervals would be fine IME.

 

Yea i am setting up my 40B, moving everything form the 75 to the 40B, then drilling 75 for overflow from glass-holes, then setting it up in apt and moving everything from the 40B back to the 75. lol gonna be a fun process.

 

I love engineer gobies! Mine was the only fish that survived hurricane Ike when our power went out for 6 days. The only thing is, they do get big and like to build but this keeps your sand stirred up. I just got rid of mine because I want to keep some sexy shrimp in my new set up and I'm sure they would have been dinner for my goby. They are not aggressive, they just get big and like to eat so keeping smaller things like shrimp may be a problem. Other than that, great fish! They look super cool as adults. Hope this helps!

 

My self I would pass if you intend to keep a mixed reef.

 

Ive had a pair of them for about 2 years now. My larger one is about 8" and my other about 7". They are awesome fish, and to watch the transition as they grow is cool too. Also like others have stated, they do burrow under stuff so make sure everything is secure. I have my rock all the way to the bottom of the tank with sand around them. This keeps the gobies from digging under them and having something collapse. Granted they do go under the rocks and have a bunch of tunnels I've never had a tumble with rocks.. All in all though, their very cool fish, i say get them!

 

ugh i only got one! walked in and there was 4 i said give me 2! the guy goes and gets 1, by the time he goes to get the second the other lfs people had sold them! UGH! oh well, anyways he is super cool! i am glad i got him!

 

I wouldn't get one, a 12 inch eel like fish causing sand storms and rocks to collapse. I'll skip and get something else...

 

lol

I had one a few years ago. By the time he was 4 inches, he had all the sand piled against the front glass, and you could see clean bare bottom under and behind the rocks. Never again...

 

Lol I know someone who had a clown that always dug a bunker in the front of her tank, leaving a small bare bottom.

I wonder if anyone has somehow pasted a thin layer of sand to the bottom so you don't have to worry about that - you could at least do it with the right concrete if you cure it and all.