Aralia Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 Last weekend I acquired an electric blue neon dwarf goby. He is in the quarantine tank right now and seems to be doing well. I have been looking for substrate ideas online and I see sand is the most recommended. Does anyone have any advice on brands or other substrates that would work better? He will be in a 29 gallon with some amano shrimp and a school of white cloud minnow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dancing Matt Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 I will say that if you go with sand, light sand will show any mulm build up easily. I have two types of light sand in two tanks and if I don't up keep on the gravel vac it looks kinda gross, especially my tank with fine sand. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aralia Posted January 12, 2021 Author Share Posted January 12, 2021 Oof I hear that! I have a couple small tanks with sand now and they definitely show anything that gets on it. I made the mistake of using white sand in a tank with 2 mystery snails and their poop shows up really well 😄I just want to make sure I don’t hurt the goby with anything sharp. I would be open to gravel if that would work too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAC Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 I have noticed my stiphodon gobies like to burrow around in the substrate. I have them on a natural sand and small pebble mix I collected from a mountain lakeshore. I would be hesitant to use something jagged like eco complete but anything else should probably be fine. They are awesome little fish! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aralia Posted January 12, 2021 Author Share Posted January 12, 2021 16 minutes ago, MAC said: I have noticed my stiphodon gobies like to burrow around in the substrate. I have them on a natural sand and small pebble mix I collected from a mountain lakeshore. I would be hesitant to use something jagged like eco complete but anything else should probably be fine. They are awesome little fish! That is great to hear. Thank you! I am loving him so far. I can’t wait to get him settled in 🙂 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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