Engineer Goby?

[petoonia]

How deep of a sandbed does an engineer goby need, does it need a courser substrate as well?

[Racing1]

The deeper the better. I had one in my 75 with 6 inch sandbed and he dug right to the bottom under my largest pice of liverock. Make sure your liverock is stable because they will cause problems down the road. I ended up bringing him back to the lfs after 8 months because he was causing problems with my liverock structure..

[nyvp]

I have 4 in my 560g w/2" sand bed they are just swimming around having a good time being great tank mates.

[Airman]

I have one in my tank with about 4" of sand. I have a screen in the middle of the sand bed. This keeps him from dig past the screen. The LR in stable resting on the screen.

[skeeter-doc]

Mine has gone through just about all the sand in the tank, covering corals and generally making a mess of things, but I wouldn't trade him in for anything! I too say, no matter how deep, they will find the bottom, and as for coarse-ness, I would think finer is better for them, ....

[petoonia]

I am probably only going to have a 2" sand bed in a 75g. How big do they get? Do you think that would be enough for one?

[skeeter-doc]

one would be good, but they do like to be in pairs/groups

engineer gobies get to be like 8-10 inches long

[Sea-nut]

I have one for 2 years now, good thing I have all my rocks on the glass, because he took all the sand out. He is about 10 inches long and alwayes hungry.

[skeeter-doc]

what do you feed him since he is that big now?

[Sea-nut]

He gets leftover food in the tank and I hand feed him 1/4 of small shrimp twice a week.