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
Sphinx blenny mating, the blennies form distinct pairs, and the females lay up to 7000 eggs in a sitting, which are then guarded in burrows by the males. Males are known to cannibalize dead eggs to prevent infection spread amongst the healthy eggs, although in smaller broods they have also been reported consuming living eggs. It is believed that this is due to limited feeding opportunities for the males during breeding, as a result of their restriction to the nests. FishBase considers the blennies to be of Low Vulnerability, with a reproductive doubling time of less than 15 months. Sphinx blenny The