🐠 Hi Fin Red Banded Goby (Stonogobiops nematodes)
A Silver-White Body With a Yellow Face and Dark Diagonal Stripes • A Tall, Elongated Dorsal Fin Filament • A Documented Pistol Shrimp Partnership
 
📋 The Hi Fin Red Banded Goby, also known as the Striped Goby, Blackray Shrimp Goby, or Filament-Finned Prawn Goby, has an elegant silver-white body with a yellow face, distinct dark diagonal stripes, and a tall, elongated dorsal fin filament.
It comes from a wide range across the Western Pacific and Indian Ocean, from the Seychelles to the Philippines and Bali, known from deep coastal reef slopes and sand flats, typically observed in pairs hovering just above the substrate near their burrow. Every Hi Fin Red Banded Goby we ship is feeding well.
A charming natural partnership defines this species: it forms a real symbiotic relationship with pistol shrimp of the genus Alpheus, sharing a burrow the shrimp maintains and continually digs, while the goby keeps watch and alerts its nearly blind partner to danger. It's fully reef safe, peaceful, and not aggressive toward other shrimp gobies, sometimes even sharing a burrow with another species. It's also a documented jumper, so a secure, tight-fitting lid matters, and it's best kept as a confirmed male-female pair rather than randomly combining two individuals, which may turn out to both be male and fight. It reaches up to 6cm, so a 40L tank suits it well.
 
💡 Highlights
🎨 Silver-White Body With Yellow Face and Stripes: An elegant, popular shrimp goby
🦐 A Documented Pistol Shrimp Partnership: A real symbiotic burrow-sharing relationship with Alpheus shrimp
🌿 Fully Reef Safe: Won't harm corals or invertebrates
😌 Peaceful: Non-aggressive toward other shrimp gobies
⚠️ A Jumping Risk: A secure, tight-fitting lid is essential