🐠 Neon Goby (Elacatinus oceanops)
A Black Body With Vivid Neon Blue Horizontal Stripes • A Well-Documented Natural Cleaning Behaviour • Well Suited to Aquarium Life
 
📋 The Neon Goby, also known as the Neon Cleaner Goby or Blue Neon Goby, has a striking black body with a pale underbelly and two vivid neon blue horizontal stripes running from snout to tail.
It comes from the Western Atlantic, from Florida down through the Caribbean and Brazil, a geographic outlier from most of our Indo-Pacific stock, inhabiting coral reefs, forming small "cleaning stations" on coral heads at depths of roughly 1 to 45 metres. Every Neon Goby we ship is feeding well.
A well-documented natural behaviour defines this species: it actively picks parasites and dead skin from the mouth, gills, and skin of larger fish, and is so widely recognised as a cleaner that even predatory fish are known to spare it rather than eat it. Unlike its more famous but notoriously difficult relative, the true Cleaner Wrasse, this species is well suited to aquarium life, readily accepting prepared foods and not relying on cleaning as its sole food source, though it shouldn't be relied upon as sole parasite control in a closed aquarium system. It's fully reef safe, hardy, and best kept singly or as a confirmed pair, since a larger dominant individual can become aggressive toward others of its own kind. It reaches up to 5cm, so a 40L tank suits it well.
 
💡 Highlights
🎨 Black Body With Neon Blue Stripes: A striking, popular nano cleaner goby
🧼 Well-Documented Cleaning Behaviour: Even predators are known to spare this species
🌿 Fully Reef Safe: Won't harm corals or invertebrates
💪 Well Suited to Captivity: Unlike the notoriously difficult true Cleaner Wrasse
🌍 A Western Atlantic Species: A real geographic outlier from our typical Indo-Pacific stock