Garibaldi damsel
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Superstretch18
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Not endangered, but you can't collect them off of California, but the one's you see for aquariums are from Baja...
Catalina gobies are endemic to the Eastern Pacific with nothing looking like it in the Atlantic for the most part.
What you are seeing most likely is not that unless someone has released them and they took
http://fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=3885
redfishsc
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15320494#post15320494 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by GreshamH
Catalina gobies are endemic to the Eastern Pacific with nothing looking like it in the Atlantic for the most part.
What you are seeing most likely is not that unless someone has released them and they took
The ones I saw looked just like what you have in the pic (and catalinas I've seen in person).
It's possible that they are a transplant like you mentioned, or a similar specie. The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Fishes don't mention them being in the east coast either, so they obviously aren't native there.
They come from the Eastern Pacific.... it's pretty cold there. There are relatives that live in the Atlantic and Caribbean, although kind of similar, they are not Catalinas. The map may be deceiving, in all the literature I could find Catalinas are only found around California to the Baja Peninsula. But seeing as this was a post about Garibaldis this thread should not be derailed anymore. Garibaldis have the same distribution as the Catalinas.
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stumpovrtyme
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The local aquarium in Newport Kentucky keep there water at 65 degrees for there garibaldi. I thought that was really cold but they looked happy. They also seemed very shy unlike most damsels.
jeffreylesser
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Having scuba dived off of catalina and the channel islands I can tell you that garibaldi are not shy, but in fact very territorial. They will chase and nip at you if you get close to their "domain". Not sure how they would do in a reef tank but I would guess they would be pretty aggressive.
stumpovrtyme
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Thats what I thought but I couldn't hardly even get a look at them. I also thought they were red but there actually orange thought that was pretty cool to learn.
Sitarangi
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Garibaldi will grow to a foot long regardless of the tank. They are also the meanest fish you will ever encounter. You'll find them all over the place in San Diego and we had at least 30+ of them when I was an intern for the birch aquarium. Their a fish simply not appropriate for the home aquarium.
The Juvis are born about 50% blue, as they grow up they kind of become a spotted blue and as they are adults they are bright orange. From what I learned about them, the blue is kind of a marker so adults won't kill them. They are the most territorial fish in the ocean. They will not take crap from a human, shark, sea lion, nothing.
The Juvis are born about 50% blue, as they grow up they kind of become a spotted blue and as they are adults they are bright orange. From what I learned about them, the blue is kind of a marker so adults won't kill them. They are the most territorial fish in the ocean. They will not take crap from a human, shark, sea lion, nothing.
stumpovrtyme
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Are they a game fish anywhere? I mean are they fished for?
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