Pic of the week. ---Perched fish.
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Sugar Magnolia
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great pics incysor!
Here's my submission:
Here's my submission:
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That is a fantastic pic SM. I just got a blue neon cleaner yesterday. I took a few pics of it last night, but nothing I was thrilled about. I love it when they do something silly, and you can catch it. I keep trying to catch the little blenny in my wife's tank sleeping in the clam, but so far I haven't had any luck.
That is a fantastic pic SM. I just got a blue neon cleaner yesterday. I took a few pics of it last night, but nothing I was thrilled about. I love it when they do something silly, and you can catch it. I keep trying to catch the little blenny in my wife's tank sleeping in the clam, but so far I haven't had any luck.
FishinInTheDark
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See spot. See spot sit.
Sugar Magnolia
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wow Conni! great pic of the little clown goby!
FishinInTheDark
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SM,
Thanks! He's a good subject because he just sits in that leather all day. I wish I could get the color and sharpness of your pictures though.
Conni
Thanks! He's a good subject because he just sits in that leather all day. I wish I could get the color and sharpness of your pictures though.
Conni
Sugar Magnolia
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hehe, that's so cool dj! I had a blue leg go for a ride to the top of the 30 cube on the back of a margarita snail once - very fuuny to watch.
Heh, that pic is great. My urchins pick up the snails/crabs all the time. We have to keep an eye on them so we can pull them off. One time the tuxedo had a medium sized hermit on it, and on the hermit was a small cerith snail. I tried to get the camera, but all my batteries were dead and by the time I managed to charge them the snail had managed to drop off.
Oh well.
I'll be happy to throw out suggestion each week or so for pics. I figure if I just continue starting the new week on Thursday folks will have a chance to take pics on the weekend, if they don't have any on hand that fit the theme and feel like contributing. Sound ok?
Brian
ExiledInfidel666
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citron?, looks like a plain ol yellow clown, no teal metallic stripes
Yep you're right. I've seen both labeled as yellow clown gobies, and as citron gobies. The correct name for the fish in the pictures is neither, it's an okinawa goby.ExiledInfidel666 said:
http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/Species ... fm?id=7217
ExiledInfidel666
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yes but gobiodon okinawae is always listed with its common name as a yellow clown goby, if its not then what is the yellow clown goby or is that just another common name for it?, you really just confused me, lol
Thats why I had it mislabeled. In the LFS and on the vendor sites online I see both fish called yellow clown goby, or citron goby. As it turns out you were correct in that the one with the white/teal stripe behind it's eye is a Citron Goby. The other one is a yellow clown goby. Not that any of it really makes a difference cause the names are used so interchangeably that from site to site, and lfs to lfs they might be called one or the other.ExiledInfidel666 said:
Yellow Clown Goby - Gobiodon okinawae
Citron Clown Goby - Gobiodon citrinus
ExiledInfidel666
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ok yea what you have there is how I name them, I thought you came up with some new clown goby or something, by the way your clown goby looks amazing, im getting one for my custom tank, youv'e seen, what do you feed yours, I like the fact you can't really tell the palenesss in the cheeks and he has a wonderful bright yellow color, iv heard mysis and cyclopleze is very good to achieve that
I think the pale color in the cheeks is perhaps a sign of stress. I see it a lot when they're in the stores and there are a bunch of fish in a tank, but the few I've seen in stores display tanks don't tend to have it. I actually don't have this fish anymore, it didn't make it through the move, but I've had two of them now during the 2.5yrs the tanks have been up and the only time I've seen the pale cheek color in my tanks has been when they're asleep. Many fish pale out, or change color when they're sleeping.ExiledInfidel666 said:
I'm a fairly heavy, and varied feeder. I only feed the tanks once a day. I've got frozen brine, mysis, krill, ocean plankton, silversides,cyclopeze, and several bags of Eric Borneman's recipe frozen. I also feed 2-3 kinds of flake some strictly vegetarian, some not.
I also feed DT's phytoplanton, as well as some of the Kent plankton products. And the tanks usually get fed live brine once a week to every 10 days. I don't really stick to any kind of schedule, but at least once a week there's a mix of cyclopeze, golden pearls, krill, mysis, maybe brine, or silversides, soaked in tank water to thaw out with 2-3 drops of super selco, or if I can't find super selco, then 5-6 drops of selcon. This is what I squirt the anemones with. A lot of it of course goes to the rest of the tank.
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ExiledInfidel666
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wow, yea im a poor feeder I admit it, my fish remain fat and happy(i dont mean literally fat fat) but all i have in food is frozen mysis, frozen fliter feeder food, (phyto and zoo plankton mix) and some freeze dried plankton which I try not to feed them, im working on getting clam, squid, cyclopleze, liquid invert food(marine snow probably) maybe DT's phyto but I cant find any and just what ever else food I find that looks good, maybe some flakes to, Im going to get this suppliment thing you mix with food and freeze to make custom food when I get my salt for the new tank of mine, going to try that marine environment stuff, saposed to be rated best fo the best but yea right now I feed my fish every other day because I have not seen them to have a problem with it, if any of you want to explain any importances of feeding evey day let me know, oh and I feed my cinnamon minnows sometimes, the live ones at the store, they are just small enough and they can survive in the salt, plus very cool to watch, I bet no one has done that
FishinInTheDark
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This is my male clown doing his xenia impression. This may not look like he's perched, but it's where he "sits" when he's not being busy.
