Gobioides peruanus-value and rarity?

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If it is indeed a peruanus, it is pretty uncommon...I suspect that perhaps 0.1%-0.4% of the fish brought in as broussonetti are peruanus contaminants, and likely almost all go unnoticed.
 
yeah, I bring it home, and put it with the G.B. dragon. a few minutes later, they stated schooling, and I saw differences left and right:
1. the head- the G.P. had a shorter, yet fater head, that was almost completely in blackish- purple(not even a trace of silver), and the G.P.s head was rounder and didn't have a rough texture like my G.B.
2. fins- the dorsal and anal fins(spines) were all shorter,yet noticably thicker. the tail and pectorial fins were just smaller, and the suction-cup fin was both smaller and thicker on the G.P.
3.body color-the most noticeable difference. while my G.B. only had rarker coloration on the linnings of the dorsal and top og the head, the G.P. had it all the way to its lateral line and then some in certanin areas, and the head is completely shrouded in dark, like stated erlier. the G.B.s lower coloration was a light purplish gray, while the G.P. had more a light blueish silver(very iredecent)
4. alrthough both eat fine and are feed well, the G.P. is almost an in around (not including fins) the whole way though.
I run an image search on the genus name and their pops up the identical G. peruanus!.

So how much is this dragon worth$$$?
 
Difficult to be sure, since they have a small, specialist interest, and are not regularly sold in the trade as a species.....probably worth at least $30, but possibly more to someone who is actively looking for one.
 
cool
 
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