Data sheet pastel goby
Latin name:
Tateurdina ocellicauda
Trade name:
Pastel goby, tailspot sleeper goby
order name:
gobies (gobiiformes)
Family:
Sleeper gobies (Eleotridae)
Genus:
tattooedina
Origin:
Papua New Guinea
Size (in cm:
6 to 7
aquarium size
Length and width in cm:
60 and 30 cm
Content in litres:
54
water values
Temperature:
22 – 26 degrees
pH:
6.5 – 7.5
GH:
5° – 15° dGH
CH:
less 8
behavior/stocking
Area:
lower region
Lining:
Live food, frozen food
Behave:
group fish
Number:
2 – 7
Life expectancy:
5-6 years
Socialization with shrimp:
no
Difficulty level:
Advanced, beginners with prior knowledge
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Dirk Godlinski, Tateurndina ocellicauda male DG, CC BY-SA 3.0
General introduction
Tateurdina ocellicauda can become a jewel in your aquarium. If their requirements are met, pastel gobies show magnificent coloring and interesting brood care behavior.
It is important to create plenty of retreats for the fish in the form of aquatic plants or roots and to feed them a varied diet. The fish can be kept in pairs in standard tanks (54 L).
pool equipment
The larger the aquarium is chosen, the more comfortable the fish will feel. A group of fish with an excess of females can live in an aquarium of 80 L or more. From 200 L, a group with an excess of females and 2 males can be kept in a well-structured aquarium.
Tateurdina ocellicauda is a fish for the lower region of the aquarium. In the wild, small groups of the species stay close to the bottom in open water and flee into aquatic vegetation when threatened.
live food fans
need sleeper gobies Live and/or frozen food such as red, black and white mosquito larvae, Artemia, Tubifex, water fleas, freshwater shrimp, Cyclops, small earthworms or grindal worms. Occasionally, protein-rich dry food such. B. trout food or fighting fish food are offered, but many pastel gobies disdain this diet.
gender differences
The male is slightly larger, slimmer and, with age, can be easily distinguished from the female by his beefy head.
breed
Breeding is considered simply, if you have purchased a matching pair. During courtship, both spread their fins, and the female demonstrates her yellow belly. The courtship can last several days. The male chooses a den and leads the female to it.
The female prefers to lay her eggs in a tubular burrow on the burrow walls; the male carries out intensive brood care after the female has laid her eggs. It guards the eggs, fans the eggs fresh, oxygen-rich water and drives away any potential enemies until the young larvae hatch and swim free.
rearing
The young fish hatch after 6-10 days. Usually the parents do not eat their young. To be on the safe side, the small fish should be isolated from their parents and reared in their own tank.
Juvenile fish that have just left their eggs should be treated with newly hatched ones Artemia nauplii to be fed. Later the young fish can be fed with older Artemia nauplii.
socialization
Sleeper gobies behave towards other fish of the same size peaceful and reserved, although it can happen that they nibble the fins of some species (e.g. guppies, Poecilia reticulata). Smaller fish are generally considered prey!
A socialization with shrimp is not recommended, since the sleeper gobies are predatory and would regard shrimp as prey.
The species should not be kept with dwarf crayfish (Cambarellus spec.), as it swims bottom-oriented. Young crabs would be eaten, adult crabs could injure the gobies.