Fish Information

lossman

lossman

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Looking for information on the following fish. They are supposed to be good for the Gulf of Mexico biotope we are doing.

They aren't in the book Marine Fishes or others we have, but that's the type of info I'm looking for:
  • Reef tank suitability
  • Difficulty in captivity
  • Aggression
  • Feeding
  • etc

Personal experiences are especially great !!!

Thanks

  • Spotfin Butterfly
  • Slippery Dick Wrasse
  • Beau Gregory Damsel
  • Colon Goby
  • Blue Goby

I have Latin names if it helps.
 
Checked out the fishbase.org site, but unfortunately no aquarium info for any of the fishes listed. Unless I'm using it wrong.

:D

Anyway, what other good sites have aquarium keeping info for a lot of fish?
 
Take a long weekend vacation & go catch them yourself. They are easy to find along either side of the overseas highway.

I think the colon goby is aka Goldspot goby. I have one in my sump.

The slippery dick wrasse I have is getting a new home because he is a little too destructive in my reef. (picking things up)

Here's my vote for catching them yourself.
 
Reef tank suitability.... If you're creating a biotope, I'm not quite following you here.

Difficulty: spotfin (aka 4spot) High
slippery dick LOW
Beau greg.. LOW
colon goby....LOW
Blue goby.....Med

They are all quite territorial & aggressive fish. Worst to best would be: Beau, colon, slippery,spotfin, blue.

Feeding: beau, colon, slippery: Absolutely anything. The colon is limited by what it can cram in its mouth. IE nothing. It CANNOT be kept with fish that are smaller than it. Blue goby likes mysis & BS. No idea on the butterfly.

Feel free to PM me & I can put you in touch with someone who has kept all the fish you list successfully.
 
Pike said:
Reef tank suitability.... If you're creating a biotope, I'm not quite following you here.

Difficulty: spotfin (aka 4spot) High
slippery dick LOW
Beau greg.. LOW
colon goby....LOW
Blue goby.....Med

They are all quite territorial & aggressive fish. Worst to best would be: Beau, colon, slippery,spotfin, blue.

Feeding: beau, colon, slippery: Absolutely anything. The colon is limited by what it can cram in its mouth. IE nothing. It CANNOT be kept with fish that are smaller than it. Blue goby likes mysis & BS. No idea on the butterfly.

Feel free to PM me & I can put you in touch with someone who has kept all the fish you list successfully.
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Thanks

What I'm going to do is finish a full livestock plan, fish and inverts. I'll post that here for feedback. Probably a week or two.
 
How have you come along on this. I am settng up a Gulf of Mexico Reef Biotope with inverts.

Based on your fish list, I would guess you used Tullock's Book;). I matched his book up with a survey done by the Flower Garden Sactuary (La & Tx coasts) and supplemented his list.

Came up with more suitable candidates:
Cherub Angel (pair)
Peppermint Bass (single)
Blue Chromis (schoal - 3)
Seaweed Blenny (single)

I am still trying to find a 5th species, picking one out of:
Spotfin Butterfly
Red Spot Hawk
Bluehead Wrasse
Beau Gregory Damsel

So was curious to see what you have done over the last few months.

Chris
 
Hi Chris,

We have all five fish that we are going to be putting in the tank. We ended up with a royal gramma, a harelequinn basslet, an indigo hamlet, a neon wrasse and a hawkfish. We have not added many inverts as yet. It's a little hard to come by the things we want to put in there. We accidently added a couple of things before we were aware they were not strictly from the Gulf/Caribbean area. We have discosomas in there that did not originate in that area, we have an orange cup coral that, although is found in the area, did not come from that area and our hawkfish turns out to be a Falcos, not a redspotted. The fish was our fault for not researching it properly. We knew that we wanted a red spotted hawkfish from way back, but had not looked at pictures in quite some time. We saw the Falcos and asked what kind of hawkfish it was. LFS kid told us redspotted so we bought it. After getting it home, we researched to find out exactly what kind of food, care etc and found out we had an Indopacific fish in our tank. He's staying anyway. :)

Our next couple of inverts will be the corky seafinger and the purple frilly gorgonian. Just waiting on availability from the person we will be getting them from.

Sally
 
You say you havent added many inverts so far, that implies you added some. How is the hamet and hawk handling that?

Caribbean/Gulf is a tough one. I want to plant the tank with lots of porties sps and the caribbean variety are not legally available, ecept as 'worm rock'. I will be substituting with indo-pacific varieties that have similar colors (muted colors, not bright). Growth forms appear various in both regions, with exception to the P. asteroids (mustard hill) being a unique caribbean shape and not available as a similar substitute from the west.

Chris
 
Basically we have added snails, blue leg and red leg hermits. The hamlet does not really bother them that much. The main culprit is the wrasse. He pickes them off the rocks or flips them on the sand then the basslet and the wrasse torment them. I think the ones eating the snails are a couple of small gorilla crabs that the basslet has not caught yet and/or the pistol shrimp.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6665420#post6665420 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by graveyardworm
I definatly wouldnt mix the slippery dick wrasse with the colon goby.
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:lol:
 
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