What kind of food does goby eat?

Wolf-toothed goby, also known as mackerel goby, red eel goby, etc., belongs to the genus goby, which is distributed in the Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean and along the coast of China. It has more production in the South China Sea and East China Sea. In Hong Kong and Vietnam and other places, this kind of fish can be used as table delicacies. Let's take a look at what kind of food the goby eats.

Morphological characteristics of wolf-toothed goby

The vision of the goby has deteriorated, the eyes are hidden under the skin, and the mouth is very large, and the curved tusks reveal the lips, and its scales have degraded. The body is elongated and laterally flattened, in a banded shape. Generally, the body length is 9 to 20 centimeters, the weight is 20 to 35 grams, the eyes are small, degenerated and buried under the skin. The mouth is large, oblique, mandible and chin protruding forward, the lateral teeth of the upper and lower jaw are 6 to 12 sharp curved teeth protruding outside the lip, and the mouth is exposed when the mouth is closed, like a wolf tooth, dorsal fin, caudal fin and anal fin connected to each other as a whole. The pectoral fin is wide and long, the upper fin is free and filamentous, and the body is exposed and scaleless. All purple. Pectoral and ventral fins sometimes with dark brown edges.

Distribution environment of wolf-toothed goby

Goby fish are mostly distributed in warm tropical fresh water, semi-light alkaline water and sea areas, and live in muddy environments such as estuaries, bays, mangrove wetlands or sandy coastal waters. Because this fish knows how to dig sand holes and hide, it is generally not easy to see. So Malaysian fishermen rarely catch this kind of fish. Wolf-toothed goby also has the common name of snake soup, wolf wrasse or naughty fish, the reason is called naughty fish, because this fish is very strong vitality, even if the head is chopped off, it will not die in a short time.

What kind of food does goby eat?

The eating habits of goby are very miscellaneous. The eggs of smaller fish, shrimp, worms and other fish are all food for goby. They mainly feed on crustaceans, small fish and clam larvae, such as shrimp and crabs, and some eat benthic diatoms. Species that live in fresh water also eat aquatic insects and worms, so they are not easy to die out of water. However, its carnivore is not absolute, and many people will choose to feed it with bean cakes or crushed peanuts. There are still many things that can be given to goby on the market, such as professional fish feed, trapping wild miscellaneous fish, and so on.