http://www.liveaquaria.com/diversden/ItemD...&ddid=75473
Perfect for a pico tank...at 1.25" it is full grown!
Full Version: Awesome Rare Dwarf Dottyback!
I saw one that looked like that at a house I was buying a frag at. He reached his hand into the tank to grab it and it bit him. You could see it's teeth.
QUOTE (Nemo Niblets @ Nov 15 2009, 11:19 PM) 
I saw one that looked like that at a house I was buying a frag at. He reached his hand into the tank to grab it and it bit him. You could see it's teeth.
Sounds like a dottyback. If you read the reefkeeping mag articles on them one of the dottybacks were refered to as 5" of unholy terror.
I saw that and the red coloration really drew my attention. The more I looked at it, it reminds me of a betta.
Looka like a betta IMO.
The max size is 3".
QUOTE (Jacobnano @ Nov 15 2009, 07:28 PM)
Looka like a betta IMO.
kinda.
but thats one nice fish!
nice catch Matt.
QUOTE (Nemo Niblets @ Nov 15 2009, 10:31 PM)
The max size is 3".
fishbase.org has 1.1"
QUOTE (Nemo Niblets @ Nov 15 2009, 07:31 PM)
The max size is 3".
"Pseudoplesiops wassi is described from 34 specimens, 17.7–28.8 mm SL, from throughout the
West Pacific."
That's 0.7 - 1.1"
http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2003f/zt00291.pdf
That's pretty cool! Dottybacks are terrors, but they're so awesome. I wonder what would happen if someone put 4 or 5 different dottybacks in say a 40 breeder?
It would be something like battle royale.
QUOTE (fewskillz @ Nov 17 2009, 08:08 AM)
That's pretty cool! Dottybacks are terrors, but they're so awesome. I wonder what would happen if someone put 4 or 5 different dottybacks in say a 40 breeder?
I have never kept this genus of dottyback (Pseudplesiops) but by all accounts they are very un-dottyback like compared to Pseudchromis, Pictochromis, Manonichthys, etc. Much more secretive and shy except perhaps with congeners.
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