Plesiops sp

[AWExotics]

Here are a couple new fish I picked up. They came in as Plesiops sp and I don't know much more than that. Very cool looking fish but I want to learn more bout their needs:

Todd

 

[marrone]

They look like Soap fish, hard to tell from the picture though. If they are Soap fish don't do much but hide under rock and around pipes waiting for food to come into the tank, like a small grouper.

 

[FMarini]

cool fish- same family type as marine bettas. treat accordingly

 

[Amphiprion]

Very cool. I have never seen any other Plesiopids other than the more common ones (marine bettas, assessors).

 

[marrone]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6876080#post6876080 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Amphiprion
Very cool. I have never seen any other Plesiopids other than the more common ones (marine bettas, assessors).

I see them all the time and they're usually always there week after week as nobody ever buys them.

 

[Peter Schmiedel]

Todd,

I also have two Plesiops - but had to split them. Very shy, never come out, stay always in the shade. But I love the hide and seek fish types

BTW - very cool Jawfish in yout other post. Nice undetermined species. Good catch!

 

[technoshaman]

Interesting fish from same family I have seen occasionally offered. Supposedly painfully shy B. fasciolatum :

http://filaman.ifm-geomar.de/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=9230

I have had a Calloplesiops altivelis for 4+ years - wonderful fish once they stop hiding all the time (took him almost a year but now he's out and about any time he sees me).

 

[Peter Schmiedel]

I have tow B. fasciolatum since about one year and only a few days ago I could see the first time both at the same moment !! And I have them in a 120 cm tank. This is the most cryptic species I have ever kept.