Round goby includes mollusks, crustaceans, worms, fish eggs, zebra mussels, small fish, and insect larvae. Adult round gobies feed mainly on mollusks and other small invertebrates (insects and amphipods) living on the bottom of lakes and streams. At spring, the main items in its diet in the Sasyk Lagoon are "Hydrobia", "Cerastoderma", "Abra". In the same season near the Romanian coasts of the Black Sea the round goby feeds on polychaetes, crustaceans ("Idotea balthica", "Pachygrapsus marmoratus", "Xantho poressa", etc.) and juvenile gobies. Near Sevastopol the round goby feeds on molluscs ("Mytilaster lineatus", "Abra" spp.), but near Karadag except molluscs ("Cerastoderma", "Brachiodontes") were
Monkey goby as amphipods and shrimp. In the Danube lakes Yalpug and Kugurluy, the diet of the monkey goby consists of amphipods, molluscs, and Oligochaeta. In the Khadzhibey Estuary a dozen species of prey make up the diet of monkey goby. Polychaetes, larvae of insects, and shrimp are present in the diet year round. Seasonal dietary additions include crabs such as "Rhithropanopeus harrisii", sea weed such as "Zostera marina", and amphipods such as "Marinogammarus olivii". Certain planktonic crustaceans are also present in the diet of adult gobies. In the northwestern Black Sea, twelve parasite species are known to infect the monkey goby.