The Bumblebee Goby is a small, brackish, relatively peaceful fish that does not tolerate intrusion into its territory. I have my tank at a salinity of 1.004. It features a long thin body that is black with yellow stripes. They are bottom loving fish and are characterized, as a family, by having the ventral fins joined to form a funnel-shaped sucker-like organ with which they can attach themselves to stones or any other flat surface. All the Gobiidae also have 2 dorsal fins, one set behind the other and the anal fin usually positioned opposite the second, back dorsal fin.

The ideal set-up is an aquarium with brackish water and plenty of plants and rocks providing the gobies with ample hiding places. I use Reef Crystals salt mix. Although they do well in a community setting, they will thrive the best in the company of only their own species.

Even though they live in the brackish water, the addition of freshwater will induce spawning. The female will lay the eggs in the substrate beneath a root or rock where the male will fertilize them. After fertilization, the male will guard the eggs for approximately four days until the fry become waterborne.

The Bumblebee Goby requires a diet rich in small, live foods such as tubifex worms, bloodworms, brine shrimp and daphnia. Mine will eat frozen bloodworms and brine shrimp, but prefer live.