Yellow watchman goby
Cryptocentrus cinctus
Props itself up on its fins in the sand and keeps watch.
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Stats
- Size
- 8 cm
- Smallest tank
- 60 cm
- Temperature
- 23–27 °C
- Temperament
- Peaceful
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Activity
- Calm
- Water layer
- Bottom
- Care
- Easy
- Group
- Lives on its own
- Coral
- Reef safe
These numbers are LumaReef simulation data, not a real aquarium care guide.
Which tank it fits
- Nano60 cm · 65 litres7 of them
- Standard90 cm · 180 litres20 of them
- Wide120 cm · 300 litres33 of them
- Living room180 cm · 650 litres72 of them
- Showcase250 cm · 1,200 litres133 of them
Who it lives with
Gets along
- Clownfish
- Fire goby
- Green chromis
- Sixline wrasse
- Royal gramma
- Flame angelfish
- Lyretail anthias
- Yellow tang
- Blue tang
- Flame hawkfish
- Bartlett's anthias
- Orchid dottyback
- Swissguard basslet
- Chalk bass
- Banggai cardinalfish
- Pajama cardinalfish
- Percula clownfish
- Pink skunk clownfish
- Cherub angelfish
- Rusty angelfish
- Flame wrasse
- Carpenter's flasher wrasse
- Purple firefish
- Randall's shrimpgoby
- and 65 more species
Not together
- Blue damselfishAggressive with peaceful
- Domino damselfishAggressive with peaceful
- Maroon clownfishAggressive with peaceful
- Purple tangAggressive with peaceful
- Powder blue tangAggressive with peaceful
- Lunare wrasseAggressive with peaceful
- Picasso triggerfishAggressive with peaceful
- Emperor angelfishAggressive with peaceful
- Queen angelfishAggressive with peaceful
Same familyGobies
- Fire gobyNemateleotris magnifica
- Purple firefishNemateleotris decora
- Neon gobyElacatinus oceanops
- Green clown gobyGobiodon histrio
- Yasha gobyStonogobiops yasha
- High-fin shrimpgobyStonogobiops nematodes
- Randall's shrimpgobyAmblyeleotris randalli
- Diamond watchman gobyValenciennea puellaris
- Court jester gobyKoumansetta rainfordi
- Engineer gobyPholidichthys leucotaenia