what is this fish?

saw wave analo

saw wave analo

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it was marked as a bicolor blenny at the store, i paid 15 bucks for it, but upon getting home and looking up bicolor blennies i dont think thats what it actually is.. it sort of looks like a diamond goby from what ive seen online, but it has the deep purple triangle markings on its front lower part and it doesnt do much sifting in the sand.. a little bit, but nowhere near as much as what ive read that diamond gobies usually do... although i did see him hopping around last night with some kind of purple centipede looking thing wriggling around hanging out of his mouth, ive never seen anything like it before in my tank so he must have gotten it out of the sand.
he eats mysis and flake like its going out of style, and mainly just sits on a piece of rock in the middle of the tank that he seems to have made into his throne.. hes probably the the coolest thing i have in the tank just because he is so funny to watch when he goes hopping around heh
anyway, anyone know for sure what he is?

he eats a lot and is moderately active and seems pretty happy so i think hes doing fine in my tank.. but i am still very new to this.. ive never even had a freshwater aquarium before, but right now my 24g aquapod has been running for almost 3 months and everything seems to be doing fine aside from a lot of cyanobacteria.. nothing has died on me
ive got around 25lbs of live rock, 2 inches of live sand as substrate
2 percula clowns
1 peppermint shrimp
1 cleaner shrimp
the goby/blenny whatever
a huge brittle star
3 astreas
10 or so blue leg hermits
bunches of little brittle stars and even smaller tiny blue regular stars that came in on rocks
pulsing xenia
red mushroom
kenya tree
a gigantic zoa rock i paid 20 bucks for somehow at *****.. there must be 300 heads on it
some purplish button polyps
a smaller rock with 30 or so green and orange zoas on it
a frogspawn
pink star polyps
i think thats it.. i already have a lot of coraline growing on the walls of the tank.. that just started about a week ago and the spots get noticeably bigger daily
anyway.. thanks :D
 
renogaw

renogaw

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the way it is sitting on it's fins reminds me of some type of shrimp goby. is it's top fin continuous or 2 seperate fins?
 
m0nk

m0nk

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Orange spotted goby. You can tell by the black bands that start at the bottom pretty thick and dark and fade out to nothing about halfway up the body. It's not a diamond goby, those have more of a dashed line along the length of their body than the spots that you have here.
 
saw wave analo

saw wave analo

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the top fin is not continuous, the front one is kind of tall and the rear one is lower and oval shaped
monk wins the prize, i googled orange spotted goby and the picture on this
link
http://www.peteducation.com/article....+2192&aid=2077
is totally identical to what i have... thanks a million :D
that link also says that it is one of the gobies that will team up with shrimp.. well, my peppermint shrimp is too much of a wuss to come out into the open much, and my cleaner shrimp is too active to seem like it would want to settle down with him.. what would be a good shrimp to get to be his friend? that would be very cool to watch
 
m0nk

m0nk

Active Member
Originally Posted by saw wave analo
http:///forum/post/2824069
the top fin is not continuous, the front one is kind of tall and the rear one is lower and oval shaped
monk wins the prize, i googled orange spotted goby and the picture on this
link
http://www.peteducation.com/article....+2192&aid=2077
is totally identical to what i have... thanks a million :D
that link also says that it is one of the gobies that will team up with shrimp.. well, my peppermint shrimp is too much of a wuss to come out into the open much, and my cleaner shrimp is too active to seem like it would want to settle down with him.. what would be a good shrimp to get to be his friend? that would be very cool to watch
There are actually specific types of shrimp you'd need to get, most are a variety of pistol shrimp.
 
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