Sea Aquarium

Sea Aquarium

Two Spot Goby, Gobiusculus flavescens

 Two Spot Goby,
 Gobiusculus flavescens

They make an excellent aquarium fish; it is a small peaceful goby that is active & is in almost constant motion. It grows to about 4cm, the males in are very attractive with  iridescent blue markings particularly at breeding time.


  Only the males appear to have the two spots, one just in-front of the tail & the other above the pectoral fin. The males guard the eggs until they hatch; I have not found any fry in the aquarium as they are presumably eaten by the other inhabitants. They are short lived species, living for around two years.
 They readily eat all foods offered to them, frozen foods, live food even dry food.





The female on the left showing just one spot.










Male guarding eggs.

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