Aurora Goby
Pale body, orange bars, and a pistol shrimp partnership worth watching all day.
A pearl-white shrimp goby banded in warm orange with a spotted tail. Pair it with a pistol shrimp and you get one of the most entertaining relationships in the hobby: the shrimp digs and maintains the burrow, the goby stands watch at the entrance. Reef safe, peaceful, and completely coral-safe.
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What it needs to thrive
- Lighting
- Any standard reef lighting — no special requirements.
- Flow
- Moderate reef flow with calm resting zones.
- Feeding
- Meaty frozen foods — mysis, brine, and finely chopped seafood — twice daily.
- Temperament
- Peaceful and reef safe. Will not bother corals or inverts.
- Difficulty
- Beginner
- Ideal Tank Size
- 20 gallons and up with a sand bed.
- Water Parameters
- 76–80°F · salinity 1.024–1.026 SG · pH 8.1–8.4 · 0 ammonia / 0 nitrite · nitrate under 10 ppm
Sand bed with a few inches of depth and some rubble for burrow construction. Keep a tight lid — gobies jump.
Peaceful with everything except other shrimp gobies. House one per tank unless it is a bonded pair.
Quarantine, dip, and acclimation
Quarantine
Hold all new fish in a bare-bottom 10–20 gallon QT for a minimum of 4 weeks. Observe for flashing, clamped fins, white spots, or breathing changes. Treat preventatively with copper (1.75–2.5 ppm chelated) or tank-transfer method for ich, plus a praziquantel course for flukes. Invertebrates and corals skip QT but go through dip and observation instead.
Recommended coral dip
For every new coral: a 5–10 minute bath in your reef-safe dip of choice (Bayer Complete, CoralRx, or Reef Primer) following label dosage, followed by two clean saltwater rinses. Inspect plugs and bases for flatworms, pyramid snails, and eggs — remove or refrag onto clean plugs before placing in display.
Acclimation
Float sealed bags in your QT or display for 15 minutes to match temperature. Then drip acclimate at 2–4 drops per second for 45–60 minutes until volume has tripled. Net livestock into the tank — never pour shipping water in. Dim the lights for the first 24 hours to reduce stress.
