Goby ID

[Mpy]

Most people dont usually need an ID on a fish, but I am not most people.. I got a new fish that I am pretty sure is a goby, but I could very well be wrong.

 

It seems to have a suction cup on the belly, hard to photograph but it is kinda visible in one of the pictures. It is a very small goby, under half an inch(the holes in the container are 1/8").

 

 

[Tamberav]

I know what that is but can't think of the name... grrr...

[1.0reef]

Lumpsucker (Cyclopteridae) maybe??? All the species I know of are CW though....

I think SA bred them and they were on DD and tropical fish a few months ago....

[thesmallerthebetter]

clingfish!

 

maybe Tomicodon zebra? it has a tropical range...

 

but judging by the pale grey fish in the backround (a jack a presume) it was a collected rather than purchased aquisition....

[Mpy]

Yes, it was wild collected on the Florida coast along with the bait fish. So it is either a native or invasive to the Atlantic coast of Florida.

 

I had never heard of a clingfish before, but that looks to be what it is! Now I know what to look up.

[Tamberav]

Yes, it was wild collected on the Florida coast along with the bait fish. So it is either a native or invasive to the Atlantic coast of Florida.

 

I had never heard of a clingfish before, but that looks to be what it is! Now I know what to look up.

 

Okay it came to me. I couldn't remember which kind of clingfish....

 

 

Stippled Clingfish... Gobiesox punctulatus

[Mpy]

Well I am excited, it will make a great addition to my primarily Florida native(&invasive(porcelain crabs)) tank.

 

One great thing is in the two days I have had him I already noticed him eat pellet food which is a big bonus.

[darkdancer333]

If was freshwater looks like like a plocastamus

[Mpy]

Update! He was released into my 55 gal tank in July, and I hadn't seen him since then. He was out and about last night, he has grown to about the size of a rubber-lip pleco you would get from the pet store.