Trimma rubromaculatus

Allen & Munday, 1995

Red Jewel Goby, Red Spotted Dwarf Goby

Range: Indo-West Pacific Ocean: New Guinea.

Size: 2 inches (3 cm)

Natural Environment: Inhabits rubble areas at base of vertical cliffs and usually found at depths between 10 to 100 feet (3 - 30 m) where it feeds on zooplankton.

General Husbandry: Rarely seen in the trade having a mottled reddish-brown body.

Can be maintained in small/nano reef or fish-only aquariums having various rocky crevices to hide, as those in this genus are quite secretive, until food inters the aquarium.

Should not be housed with aggressive fishes such as groupers, dottybacks, triggerfishes or aggressive angelfishes.

Requires a meaty diet, i.e., enriched brine shrimp, mysis, finely chopped fish or shrimp flesh, and other various frozen carnivore foods, with two feedings per day.

Taxonomy:

Order: Perciformes

Suborder: Gobioidei

Family: Gobiidae

Genus: Trimma

FYI: Good occupant for nano tanks.

Experience Level: Intermediate

Temperament: Peaceful

Diet: Carnivore

Coral Safe: Yes

Fish Safe: Yes

Invertebrate Safe: Yes

Acclimation Time: 30 minutes+

Aquarium Environment: Reef or fish-only aquarium

Tankmates: Peaceful

Minimum Tank Size: 10 gallons

Temperature Range: 72 - 82°F (22 - 27°C)

Specific Gravity: 1.020 - 1.026

pH: 8.0 - 8.5