Desert Gobies usually in the trade are Chlamydogobius eremius and the stock
originally came from Coward Springs in South Australia.
In my experience they are easy to breed, grow quickly and become geriatric
at around 2 years of age so breed them regularly and keep some of your fry
to carry on with. They are one of the few fish I have had choke to death on
chunks of frozen food.. They also like hard water better than soft and acid
and batches of fry are prone to be all females if water is not hard and
alkaline enough. They will do quite well with seawater added to bring up the
tds
Regards,
Bruce.
Bruce Hansen,
president at angfa.org.au
ANGFA Advancing Australian Aquatics, caring for our aquatic ecosystems.
Please visit us at http://www.angfa.org.au
----- Original Message -----
From: Lisa Brinkman <lisab at netrover.com>
To: <rainbowfish at pcug.org.au>
Sent: Monday, 22 November 1999 7:49
Subject: [RML] RML - Desert Gobies
> Hi All,
>
> I'm generally a lurker, but I recently got ahold of a trio of
> Chlamydogobius eremius. I purchased 2 females and 1 male. They are in
> a 10 gallon tank with a sand substrate and a small clay pot. I have
> found some information on them at a few sites, (e.g.
> http://www.ecn.net.au/~atappin/Desertgoby.htm ) but was looking more for
> some personal anecdotes on breeding them.
>
> Also, I do read a newsgroup on rainbows but the traffic there is a bit
> slow. Do any of you go there?
> news://www.dedenet.de/aquanet.rainbowfish *curious*
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Lisa
>
>