The Flaming Prawn Goby (Discordipinna griessingeri), also highly sought after as the Spikefin Goby or Griessingeri Goby, is an ultimate, highly elite nano marine species featuring a striking white body covered in bold dark brown splotches, a brilliant neon-orange tail fin, and an intensely oversized, sail-like dorsal fin marked with a prominent black eyespot. Growing to a microscopic adult size of just under one inch, it adds immense visual style and fascinating behavioral quirkiness to specialized small displays, constantly twitching its large dorsal fin up and down like a miniature signal flag.
Tank Requirements
Minimum Tank Size: 5 to 10 gallons; due to its exceptionally minuscule size, it belongs strictly in a dedicated nano or pico reef system where it will not easily get lost or accidentally eaten.
Aquarium Decor: Highly intricate setups of small live rock or porous rubble forming tiny crevices and low-ceiling caverns where it can stay localized to its chosen home territory.
Temperature: 72°F – 78°F (22°C – 26°C).
Salinity (Specific Gravity): 1.020 – 1.025.
pH Range: 8.1 – 8.4.
Care and Feeding
Diet: Carnivorous micro-predator; requires small, frequent target-feedings of fine meaty foods because its tiny mouth cannot handle standard pellets or full-sized mysis shrimp. Offer continuous supplies of live copepods, newly hatched brine shrimp, rotifers, and cyclops directed near its rock cave.
Reef Safe Rating: Reef safe; it is completely harmless toward all types of small polyp stony (SPS) corals, large polyp stony (LPS) corals, soft corals, and non-predatory invertebrates.
Temperament: Peaceful but exceptionally timid; it spends its entire day hopping cautiously along the substrate near the base of rocks. It will face immediate predation from standard community fish and should only be housed with equally tiny, ultra-docile residents.
The Flaming Prawn Goby (Discordipinna griessingeri), also highly sought after as the Spikefin Goby or Griessingeri Goby, is an ultimate, highly elite nano marine species featuring a striking white body covered in bold dark brown splotches, a brilliant neon-orange tail fin, and an intensely oversized, sail-like dorsal fin marked with a prominent black eyespot. Growing to a microscopic adult size of just under one inch, it adds immense visual style and fascinating behavioral quirkiness to specialized small displays, constantly twitching its large dorsal fin up and down like a miniature signal flag.
Tank Requirements
Minimum Tank Size: 5 to 10 gallons; due to its exceptionally minuscule size, it belongs strictly in a dedicated nano or pico reef system where it will not easily get lost or accidentally eaten.
Aquarium Decor: Highly intricate setups of small live rock or porous rubble forming tiny crevices and low-ceiling caverns where it can stay localized to its chosen home territory.
Temperature: 72°F – 78°F (22°C – 26°C).
Salinity (Specific Gravity): 1.020 – 1.025.
pH Range: 8.1 – 8.4.
Care and Feeding
Diet: Carnivorous micro-predator; requires small, frequent target-feedings of fine meaty foods because its tiny mouth cannot handle standard pellets or full-sized mysis shrimp. Offer continuous supplies of live copepods, newly hatched brine shrimp, rotifers, and cyclops directed near its rock cave.
Reef Safe Rating: Reef safe; it is completely harmless toward all types of small polyp stony (SPS) corals, large polyp stony (LPS) corals, soft corals, and non-predatory invertebrates.
Temperament: Peaceful but exceptionally timid; it spends its entire day hopping cautiously along the substrate near the base of rocks. It will face immediate predation from standard community fish and should only be housed with equally tiny, ultra-docile residents.
