Goby identification
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tbrown
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South Florida Reefs - Gobies - Labrisomid Blennies - Tube Blennies - Combtooth Blennies - Triplefin Blennies
Florent's Guide To The South Florida Reefs Fish, Corals and Creatures - Gobies - Labrisomid Blennies - Tube Blennies - Combtooth Blennies - Triplefin Blennies
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Looked at that page but not seeing any particular one that matches
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I've seen people here in AZ selling similar as Pencil Gobies but I doubt that's their actual names.
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Could also potentially be a sculpin? Or one of the brackish Gobies?
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I collected fish for my aquarium when I first started keeping a marine tank. We get tropical fish that come down in the currents during summer, but they die off when the water cools during autumn. Anyway, it pays to remember that the fish we collect are often not compatible with aquariums. This might be one reason why you don’t see those fish in your local aquarium stores. I also collected large brittle stars that were ferocious eaters and that would attack the normal docile fish we normally keep. Anyway, point is, be careful what you take home as there are loads of fish and other life forms one can collect, but which are not compatible in a tank unless they are kept as a single species tank.
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Just to add to my last message, there are many fish that are very attractive as juvenile fish, but which you’d never be able to keep as adults. So, always be mindful of what you are collecting. It’s a reminder of how artificial our tanks really are in that we aren’t keeping a miniaturised marine environment, but we are keeping a tiny portion of a marine environment.
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All great information but doesn’t particularly answer original question.
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No, I don’t know what it is. But, I think I know what your getting in to.
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I could post dozens of pictures of fish I brought home, but returned for one reason or another. Even a lion fish. Includes convict and lavender tangs (kept a lavender tang for some time with a yellow tang because it rid the tank of algae the yellow tang didn’t touch). But, there are many that are not compatible.
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