Fish of the Week... small gobies (Trimma, Eviota, Priolepis etc)!

[mummra100769]

i have a male priolepis nocturna.i have been searching for info on them.where can i get some info please.i would post the pics here,but my skills....they.....they are....well ..week.my main question is he going to eat my clown gobies?thank you.btw i wish i could as good a shot as you did of yours,man he is a hard fish to shoot.

 

[Clownen]

Your forgetting the best goby of all. The prized and gracefull moving Mandarin Goby

 

[Clownen]

darn, this forum is a little different then my home forum

 

[Desert Fox]

Your forgetting the best goby of all. The prized and gracefull moving Mandarin Goby

That's 'cause the Mandarin isn't actually a Gobiod, rather a Dragonet from the family Callionymidae. Synchiropus splendidus is just typically misnomered as a goby. Just an FYI moment for ya. They are beautiful fish though!!!!

 

[gho]

I'm not sure, is this a goby?

Diffusion filter:

 

[gregr]

i have one of those little beauties- at the fish store he was called a Red Headed Neon Goby. so his real name is... your guess is as good as mine :lol:

 

[slave-of-rock]

gregr y do you say i have that fish too? cuz everyone knows that you have all the fish we have!!! + some!! :lol:

 

[gregr]

hah! wish i had some of those gobies Peter has... they are amazing.

Clownen- i can't figure out what the url is for the image you wanted to post otherwise i'd have tried to post it for you. let me know if i can help.
greg

 

[Desert Fox]

Greg- i think it may be this (?):

Beautiful! More here.

 

[gregr]

man that is one sweet shot!
i always thought the body on Mandarins was the most amazing colors/patterns but now i see it's the tail.
beautiful shots

 

[Mariner]

Very nice fish and pics everyone.
Here's a somewhat blurry pic of my humble firefish goby -- note that I managed to get the bubble algae in sharp focus

Mariner

 

[Peter Schmiedel]

Some more:

 

[TS]

Sorry I'm late again.

I loved this little devil

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[Peter Schmiedel]

I spend some time infront of the tank and want to show you the results:

This is "right" infront of his home until last night:

Sometimes the gobie goes up 2-4 cm on the rocks, but never leaves the sand

"Left" is much more shy and does not like to pose for the camera:

I added a few day ago 4 more Alpheus randalli and should now have 2 of the red / white coloration and 4 of the red / yellow coloration. Since that "left" has his pistol shrimp too and gained much more confidence. Both of them are also more out during the daytime now and feed on frozen mysis.

Here they are together now on the left side of the tank.

In interaction the switch the middle part of the body white to impress other fish and even their own kind. Also note the open mouth of "right"

As my file fish is bothering the Alpheus they are shy - and he is not willing to be catched, but I keep on trying. Here the shrimp is securing the area

And a second later cover by a sand storm caused by the little alpheus which you can see in the background

I hope you enjoy the pictures!

 

[Peter Schmiedel]

I changed the folders structure of my old pictures thats why they are not shown anymore in the old threads, so I add them again here:

 

[superbeagle]

The green guys are my favorite.

 

[Flipturn88]

I love small gobies! They are awesome.

Yellow Watchman (well he was small at the time...)

Purple Firefish

Green Clown

 

[M.Doshier]

All though I dont have any SW tanks set up right now, but one of the other beautiful gobys are the Helfrichi Firefish (Nemateleotris helfrichi)

Reference: liveaquaria.com

 

[LPSgirl]

That liveaquaria picture has been posted a bunch; but if you really want to drool just check out pics of the real thing here.

 

[Larry Combs]

So I'm a little late on the fish of the week thing but I couldn't resist posting a pic of the blue spotted watchman.