Yellow Stripe clingfish

[Taahirs]

Anyone had experience or know anything about these little guys.

Wanting to keep them in a 25 gallon with a pair of blue stripe Pipefish and a Possum wrasse.

Anything I should know about them? What do you feed yours? What do you keep with them? How many clingfish do you have?

Thanks

 

[Taahirs]

Oh yeah. Wont have an urchin, but it will be an sps tank so there will be plenty of branching corals for them.

 

[Dkuhlmann]

I would do a search for clingfish and see what you come up with. From what I've read they're pretty cool fish and very personable, albeit FUGLY :lmao:

 

[Taahirs]

I would do a search for clingfish and see what you come up with. From what I've read they're pretty cool fish and very personable, albeit FUGLY :lmao:

Lol. Yeah, they're a bit different. Not everyone has one. That's why I like it.

I've done a few searches already. Seems most people fail when it comes to feeding these guys. I'll have live Rotifers on hand to feed them, so maybe I'll have more success.

 

[Dkuhlmann]

Good luck to you and please update this thread on the subject so you can help others with what you find out.

 

[Taahirs]

Good luck to you and please update this thread on the subject so you can help others with what you find out.

Will definitely do so. Only thing is finding one, will probably need an lfs to import a fee especially for me. Where I'm from they're not common.

 

[rlpardue]

I acquired two females last winter (maybe early spring, search my earlier posts) and still have one of them in my tank. The second fish actually jumped through a teeny hole and I found her dried up nearby.) Yellow-stripe clingfish are incredibly interesting but difficult to get to eat. Those two fish seemed to be statistical outliers, as I subsequently failed with 4 others. If you can find any that eat very small cyclops or lobster eggs in the LFS, snap 'em up because they do well if they eat.

 

[Bret61081]

Talk to your LFS and if they order from Quality Marine they used to be regularly available or you can Order from Live Aquaria as they are connected. I tried them twice but never got them to live more then a week or 2. Good luck and Keep us posted

 

[ThRoewer]

From what I found on them, Diademichthys females do better than males.
Feeding seems to be the trickiest part - I think they may actually need the urchin to live on and feed off.

 

[rlpardue]

Females do better than males in my experience. Urchins are un-necessary for non-juvenile fish. (This is from a general summary of literature and my own experience with seeing the fish ignore the urchins.)