hitchhiker fish ID (Mississippi gulf coast hitchhiker)

[hotelbravo]

Brought a cluster of oysters home a few nights ago to crack them open and feed them to my anemones and eels and in the bucket with the oyster covered rock this fish came out. i put him in my mantis-less mantis shrimp tank since there isnt anything in there but macro algae and glass shrimp. he eats like a pig pellets and mysis. its fast and like darting in and out of the little caves it has made under the rocks

 

[fairl80z]

Looks like a goby of some kind

 

[Maritimer]

If I'd found it up here on the East Coast of New England, I'd have said "Naked Goby" - it looks similar, but I'm sure goby diversity is a lot higher in the Gulf!

~Bruce

 

[ThRoewer]

Gobiosoma bosc

 

[hotelbravo]

Gobiosoma bosc

link doesnt work for me

 

[ThRoewer]

This should work: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=7&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiX2t67_fXLAhXntIMKHbMRCJEQFghBMAY&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dnr.sc.gov%2Fcwcs%2Fpdf%2FNakedgoby.pdf&usg=AFQjCNEE1GHGFXB6O7m-ICY7fwqen0r6SA&bvm=bv.118443451,d.amc

 

[ThRoewer]

Some more info on it: http://txstate.fishesoftexas.org/gobiosoma%20bosc.htm

The one you have is likely a male. Check the oysters for a dead one with a nest.

 

[Dkuhlmann]

The link worked fine for me. Ya that is a Naked Goby. Cool hitchhiker, but I'd be shucking them thar oysters for ME :dance:

 

[hotelbravo]

i wonder if i should keep him and put him in my 180g or let him stay in the mantis tank and when the mantis comes just let nature take its course

 

[jbvdhp]

i wonder if i should keep him and put him in my 180g or let him stay in the mantis tank and when the mantis comes just let nature take its course

That's messed up!!! Put it in the 180. Looks like a shrimp goby.

 

[ThRoewer]

That's messed up!!! Put it in the 180. Looks like a shrimp goby.

No, it's an oyster goby.
Though I agree - don't kill it. Though before putting it into any system with other fish I would QT it properly.

 

[hotelbravo]

That's messed up!!! Put it in the 180. Looks like a shrimp goby.

Well ive made the mistake twice of putting something in my tank that I caught and both times I had deaths of fish I had already in there.

 

[SoloChromis]

that's messed up!!! Put it in the 180. Looks like a shrimp goby.

+1

 

[jbvdhp]

No, it's an oyster goby.

Though I agree - don't kill it. Though before putting it into any system with other fish I would QT it properly.

DUH!!! I totally forgot he got it on an oyster. Stupid me.

 

[ThRoewer]

DUH!!! I totally forgot he got it on an oyster. Stupid me.

The males make their nests inside empty oyster shells. That's why this is most likely a male.

 

[hotelbravo]

Am I going to need to provide some specific environment for it?

 

[ThRoewer]

I think the only special thing he may want is an empty oyster shell that is just open enough for him to get in and out. He might also want a girlfriend