🐠 Tangaroan Shrimp Goby (Ctenogobiops tangaroai)
Marine Reef-Safe Nano Sand-Dwelling Goby • Near-Translucent White Body With Orange Spots & Fine Blue-White Specks • Genuine Documented Pistol Shrimp Partnership • Beginner-Friendly Marine Fish
 
📋 The Tangaroan Shrimp Goby, also known as the Tangaroa Goby or Tangaroa Shrimpgoby, has a genuinely delicate, semi-translucent white body decorated with orange spots interspersed with tiny blue-white specks, and a distinctively elongated first dorsal fin ray.
Native to the reefs of the Pacific Ocean, this species is genuinely found in fine-grained sand patches at depths of 4 to 40 metres, usually observed hovering just above the substrate near its burrow.
We want to share a genuinely fun fact: this species' scientific name honours Tangaroa, the Māori god of the sea. This species genuinely forms a real, documented commensal partnership with alpheid pistol shrimp, sharing a burrow the shrimp digs and maintains while keeping antennal contact with the goby, who stands watch and signals danger with a quivering caudal fin, prompting both to retreat instantly. This is a genuinely peaceful, passive species that isn't aggressive toward other shrimp gobies and may even share a burrow with a different species. It's fully reef safe, and does best kept as a genuine compatible male-female pair, though care should be taken not to combine two individuals of unknown sex from different sources, since two males will fight, especially in smaller tanks.
 
⚪🟠 Highlights
🎨 Translucent White Body With Orange Spots: A genuinely delicate, characterful shrimp goby
🦐 Genuine Documented Pistol Shrimp Partnership: A real commensal burrow-sharing relationship
🌿 Fully Reef Safe: Won't harm corals or invertebrates
😌 Genuinely Peaceful: Won't bother other shrimp gobies, even of different species
🌊 Genuine Sea-God Namesake: Named after Tangaroa, the Māori god of the sea