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
Red Sea goby Red Sea goby The Red Sea goby (Silhouettea aegyptia) is a species of true goby from the family Gobiidae. It was once a species confined to the Red Sea but it has colonised the Suez Canal and the south-eastern Mediterranean by Lessepsian migration. The Red Sea goby is marked with many dark vertical spots which have reddish brown edges on a cream background colour. There are 9 or 10 dark spots along the lateral line. It has a short snout and in males the first spine of the first dorsal fin is elongated. There are no scales on the head