I think if they have enough room to stretch without bumping into each other and their caves and safe spots are large enough they’d be ok. Just my thought though.
Yeah just try and get them together if you can.
I could also get fewer. They are a lot like snakes so I don't think the mrs would like them and I was thinking multiple because my quick research indicated they are community fish.
That’s how I lost mine… A failed tank move ended up in me losing all my stock in my old 3’ tank unfortunately (I think I lost Atleast 5K in livestock).
You’d think I wouldn’t go spendy in fish/coral in my new tank after that but nope! I have Atleast 3 fish worth 150-200 at this point. And coral isn’t even close to being complete! I have too much rockwork showing still.
My issue was that I put the rock, the cave dwelling fish, some coral and some water into a tub (3’x2’x2’ tub) the previous day to moving the tank and unfortunately I couldn’t move the tub into the house with heating. I ended up leaving it in the shed thinking it would be warm in the night and turns out it went below 0°C (35°F). 6 fish ended up freezing that night whilst another 8(ish) were in the house. One of the guys that froze was the engineer goby, the one I’m glad (in the nicest way I could put it) froze was my Neon Velvet Damsel.
It’s a rather easy one to avoid as not many people have their tanks in the shed.
That’s a good thing! Still got some free real estate for corals!
I would love an Indonesian Gold Torch in one of the tanks (the yellow would glow under the SPS reef’s lighting but there just isn’t much room in that tank).
I think so. I haven't heard of engineer gobies predating on anything and once they have their dens I think both the shrimp goby pair and engineer goby will mostly stay in their dens.
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