id please

[Martini5788]

my bet is on callogobius

+1

 

[hkgar]

Maybe I should have mentioned this before, or someone should have asked, but FWIW the trap was set with blood worms.

Blenny herbivore
Goby Carnivore

Of course it could have just stumbled into the trap while roaming around town late at night. And of course many fish whether herbivore or carnivore become opportunistic feeders

 

[Bongo Shrimp]

Maybe I should have mentioned this before, or someone should have asked, but FWIW the trap was set with blood worms.

Blenny herbivore
Goby Carnivore

Of course it could have just stumbled into the trap while roaming around town late at night. And of course many fish whether herbivore or carnivore become opportunistic feeders

Most blennies will eat just about anything including bloodworms, mysis, pellets... They are not strict herbivores although many will eat algae. They really are more omnivores. I wouldn't use food type as an indicator of the type of fish in this instance.

Besides, the fish in the pic is a goby so it would be enticed by bloodworms...

 

[slapshot]

Don't need to bet. It's not an orange spotted blenny. It's a goby in the genus Callogobius. An orange spotted blenny would have two dorsals (or what appears to be two) running almost the entire length of the body.

This is an orange spotted blenny:

Note the completely different morphology.

Agreed!

 

[Dkuhlmann]

Good I am not nuts. I sort of remember getting an Orange Spotted Blenny, genus Blenniella, and it went missing in action. I think this is it.

If I get him trapped tonight, we will find out in the AM.

Put your bets down now. 4 to 3 on the blenny

All of the pictures of orange spotted blenny I looked at have a raised forehead. The fish in your tank does not.

My bet is it's not a blenny. :beer:

 

[Dkuhlmann]

My bet is on Callogobius

Yes sir :thumbsup:

Picture from Google images of callogobius

Another picture

 

[Dkuhlmann]

I found this about them.

http://www.fishbase.org/summary/Callogobius-hasseltii.html

It appears your orange spot wasn't one afterall. WOW. I didn't spend much time searching but nothing available quickly about them, other than the link I posted here.

 

[Bongo Shrimp]

I found this about them.

http://www.fishbase.org/summary/Callogobius-hasseltii.html

Yeah I think it's most likely C. hassleti but could possibly be C. bifasciata.

 

[Dkuhlmann]

Yeah I think it's most likely C. hassleti but could possibly be C. bifasciata.

Yeah too many that look very much alike. :rollface:

 

[ThRoewer]

Actually a pretty cool looking fish

 

[hkgar]

Didn't take the bait last night. I am going to try again.