What does your Engineer Gobies look like?

omgsaltwat

Member
Engineer Gobies, a.k.a. Convict Blennies, are in a family all by themselves. These fish are usually found as juveniles and have an elongated eel-like body. They are black with a white horizontal stripe running from eye to tail. In the wild they form huge schools over sandy bottoms. They can be kept in groups and like to burrow under rockwork.
Well mine does not look like that it does not have a horizontal stripe. I has lots of vertical stripes, and they are yellow not white. Do they come like that to because it looks kinda like a Barred Moray Eel. Its hard to get a pic because I have to use a phone cam and he hides you a rock most of the time until its time to eat then he out and about?
 
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tampausmc

Guest
as a juvenile they have the single horizontal stripe.....as they mature there stripe breaks more into spots....and then the spots will slowly change to vertical lines.......which is when it really draws it's "convict blenny" alias
 

lion_crazz

Active Member
Originally Posted by OMGsaltwat
Thanks, just wanteded to make sure I had what I thought I had.

here is my adult engineer. This is an old pic though. She has grown at least another 4 inches.
 
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