Dollar Sunfish and Bumble bee goby
#4 Guest_EricaWieser_*
Posted 24 January 2011 - 01:01 AM
Mixers. Bumblebee gobies move slow, so leave out the speedy zebras and other zippers. Good candidates include other brackish fishes such as glassfish (Indian), flounders, and dragon gobies. Mollies like the same water but get to the food too fast and stuff their guts while the bees just haven’t quite got the buzz yet.
#5 Guest_decal_*
Posted 24 January 2011 - 10:34 PM
#6 Guest_Sal_*
Posted 22 February 2011 - 02:40 PM
I had two Dollars for a while before they managed to basically beat each other to death. They were only around 3", but they could easily eat Gambusia. I have seen a similar sized bantam sunfish, a species known for being peaceful and invertivores, grab and slowly devour a blackstripe topminnow. In short, sunfish eat other fish and a bumblebee goby won't stand a chance. Try hogchokers and naked gobies if you're looking for native tankmates.
Where both your suns males?
#8 Guest_khudgins_*
Posted 08 April 2011 - 04:48 AM
They're great fish. They're spunky and scrappy and mean and put on a good show. But anything small enough to fit in their gullet's going there. Anything shaped like a sunfish is automatically a target. The big dog fish will patrol just to keep everyone else out of his territory until the #2 male gets strong enough to challenge. The females are pretty much low on the pecking order as well.
If you have a male and a female, I suspect if they get along really well they may pair up and try to breed, but once the babies are there the female will need to stay away.
What's interesting is they all got along for a few months, until the bigger male felt frisky and started prepping a nest. I think since in my house it's never cold enough to trigger the breeding hormones to stop, that set off the territory war.
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