FAMILY - Godidae
SCIENTIFIC NAME - Valenclennea Limicola
COMMON NAME - Muddy Sleeper Goby
SIZE - 2.8" (7 cm)
RANGE - Indo West Pacific
MIN. AQUARIUM SIZE - 55 US Gal. (208 L)
FOODS AND FEEDING - Difficult to feed, varied diet of meaty foods, small crustaceans, vitamin enriched live and frozen brine shrimp, mysid shrimp, live black worms, prepared marine fare for carnivores.
AQUARIUM SUITABILITY - 6
REEF COMPATIBILITY - Will eat bristleworms, desirable infaunal invertebrates in live sand.
CAPTIVE CARE - Will stir substrate in reef systems, usually do not get enough to eat and starve to death. Keep in a tank with live sand and a well established refugium, feed well, deworming may help, will show aggression towards other sleeper gobies, keep only one or a male female pair.
SCIENTIFIC NAME - Valenclennea Limicola
COMMON NAME - Muddy Sleeper Goby
SIZE - 2.8" (7 cm)
RANGE - Indo West Pacific
MIN. AQUARIUM SIZE - 55 US Gal. (208 L)
FOODS AND FEEDING - Difficult to feed, varied diet of meaty foods, small crustaceans, vitamin enriched live and frozen brine shrimp, mysid shrimp, live black worms, prepared marine fare for carnivores.
AQUARIUM SUITABILITY - 6
REEF COMPATIBILITY - Will eat bristleworms, desirable infaunal invertebrates in live sand.
CAPTIVE CARE - Will stir substrate in reef systems, usually do not get enough to eat and starve to death. Keep in a tank with live sand and a well established refugium, feed well, deworming may help, will show aggression towards other sleeper gobies, keep only one or a male female pair.
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