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The
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shows a Dragon Fish for sale in our
facility. Click here for more about buying Dragon Fish
from us.
The Dragon Fish, shown above, measures about 8 inches total length and is resting on the bottom of one the aquariums in our
facilities. Fish farmers don't raise
Dragon Fish, so Dragon Fish must be collected from the wild and shipped to us. They ship well and acclimate quickly.
Dragon Fish are usually hardy and easy to keep, and they are very peaceful fish.
But they have very small
eyes and often have
difficulty finding food
before the other fish in
their aquarium have
eaten all of the food.
Dragon Fish are also called Violet Gobies.
Scientific Name. Gobioides broussonetti.
Comments
Dragon Fish have very small eyes and have difficulty seeing and finding food. Be sure that their tank mates don't eat all the food and starve the
Dragon Fish. Even though they look ferocious, Dragon Fish are very peaceful fish.
Appropriate Home
An aquarium with at least 29 gallons of water, an
exterior power filter with a
bio-wheel,
and a maximum of 1/4 inch of
gravel. Dragon Fish do well in either a cool water aquarium or a warm water aquarium. The water temperature
should be between 65 and 78 degrees F. Click
here for more about warm water aquariums. Click
here
for more about cool water aquariums. Dragon Fish are found in brackish water which is a mixture of
freshwater without salt and marine salt water with a lot of salt. Dragon Fish do well in either
freshwater or brackish water,
which is freshwater with one tablespoon of Aquarium Salt added to each five gallons of freshwater. Click
here for more
information about Aquarium Salt.
Recommended Diet
Dragon Fish eat Ghost Shrimp and Black Worms. They will also eat live and frozen brine shrimp.
Sometimes they will eat
small fish. Click
here
for more about Black Worms. Click
here for more about feeding fish.
Dragon Fish have small
eyes and often have
trouble finding food
before the other fish in
their aquarium have
eaten all the food.
Watch your Dragon Fish
carefully to be sure
it's eating.
Compatibility
Keep one or a several Dragon Fish in an aquarium, but do not keep just a few Dragon Fish together, because the strongest Dragon Fish
will make the other Dragon Fish miserable, unless there are several Dragon Fish to distract the strongest Dragon Fish. Good Tank Mates for Dragon Fish are
Angel Fish,
Silver
Dollars,
Swordtails,
Mollies, and
Corydoras
Catfish in a Warm Water Aquarium. Dragon Fish are also good tank mates for Goldfish such as
Fantails,
Black
Moors,
Telescopes, and
Orandas in a Cool Water Aquarium. Click
here to read more about several other groups of compatible fish.
Size and Life Span
Dragon Fish can live for several years and grow to be 22" long, but they rarely grow longer than 15" in an aquarium.
I am a fish biologist and I work at case university . I love the more oddball types of fish . I have
order many fish from you about 25 and the all are alive and one of my favorites is a dragon goby about 7 inches and now he is 18 inches and full of life with some puffer and
peacock eel and fan dancer gobys.
V.G. Cleveland, Ohio
Reply. Hello and thank you for your interesting comments. Incidentally, we plan to continuously add more types of interesting fish to our
facilities.
Hi! I really like your site. All the information is all I'll ever need! I have a Dragon Fish and a 20
gallon aquarium. Will it soon out grow the aquarium and will it be aggresive with my Plecostomus?
Jake S. Pennsylvania
Reply.
Hello Jake. Thank you for your email and the picture of your Dragon Fish.
I would say that by the time your Dragon Fish has grown to be 8" it will need a bigger aquarium. We recommend at least a 29-gallon aquarium, which is about 50% bigger than
your 20-gallon.
Eventually, a dragon Fish can grow to be 15" long and need an even bigger aquarium. I'd say eventually yours will need an aquarium with about 50 gallons of water.
In spite of their name, Dragon Fish are not very aggressive to other large fish. So your Dragon Fish is unlikely to bother your Plecostomus.
Your Dragon Fish looks thin. Be sure it is getting plenty to eat, which is not easy, because they do not see too well with their very small eyes. Be sure yours gets plenty of
live Black Worms, live Ghost Shrimp, and perhaps small fish like Guppies.
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