Image source 丨Flickr Photography 丨Rickard Zerpe
Friends who like native fish are no strangers to goby, these little guys are distributed in most parts of our country, and sometimes they can encounter a few on wild outings.
Although it is long and small, it cannot be stopped by fierceness.
A friend went up the mountain to collect wild fish, found that there were goby fish in the small river, and was nibbled by a goby during the fishing process. Although there was no redness, a slight pain spread throughout the entire finger in an instant.
Only then did I know that the goby fish was so fierce.
Image source 丨 network
Goby are small, but particularly aggressive and territorial. If you put two goby fish in a small tank, you can not only see them swearing territorial rights with their mouths open, but also see a martial arts action movie.
But the result is that at least one fish hangs on the color, and then, the bacteria may be able to take advantage of it, especially in this sensitive season.
Image source 丨 Pexels
In successive generations of evolution, goby have had partners. Although many of the goby fish you see fight alone, its combination with the gun shrimp is one of the main reasons why they can live in nature.
The symbiotic relationship between the gun shrimp and the goby is similar to that between the owner and the housekeeper.
The housekeeper (gun shrimp) digs holes for the goby and provides a place to rest, and the owner (the goby) protects the gun shrimp from being eaten by other fish.
Usually, when the gun shrimp come out to dump sand and gravel, they will use a whisker on the goby fish, as long as the goby fish moves, the gun shrimp will desperately run into the hole to avoid possible danger.
This symbiotic relationship is good for both sides, and while the goby is no more large than the gun shrimp, it has good eyesight and the gun shrimp is almost blind.
The big jaw of the gun shrimp is strong, but due to the inherent shortcomings, in fact, the disadvantages are more.
It's rare to get a chance to see the pair fighting side by side, but this symbiosis is their preferred way of survival.
The goby we raise in the native tank now is actually not so close to its native state.
The family of goby fish is a relatively large branch of aquarium fish, and there are more than 2100 species of family size that have been counted by institutions before.
The goby you've seen so far may be just the tip of the iceberg, and even friends who go wild everywhere can't see even one-tenth of the goby.
However, here we should remind that the practice of wild harvesting is actually not very good, after all, some fish, that is, they can never be seen again.
Image source 丨 Pixabay
The playful collaboration between goby and gun shrimp illustrates the charm of nature.
Wonderful things always come up inadvertently, surprisingly, but everywhere in line with the laws of nature, even if the mind can fly out of the galaxy's dreamers, may not necessarily come up with such a loving way of survival.
The article is the first compilation of the "YEE Aquarium World" under the Italian brand
Unauthorized reproduction is prohibited