hope he lives.

[andruboz]

he was in fresh water at the store, but the only info i could find on him, was a message board post about them being in the same tank as knight gobys. so i figured it was brackish. so in he went. his color got darker fast. may have shocked him. he was probaly going to be lunch for the bumble bee cats in the bigger tank anyway.
so it was marked a purple spot goby. does anybody know what it really is?

sorry.
crud. wont let me post the pic twice. i already put it up in general fresh discussion under "whats another name for?"

 

[joe schmoe]

That's a really bad pic, but it looks like some sort of sculpin to me...not a goby. That is unless it is mostly a SW fish in which case I would have NO idea what it is.

 

[andruboz]

yes, the pic doesnt show it, but its head is kinda thin. not very goby like. i have taken 20 pics so far and the sad thing is. thats the best one. probably not the cameras fault. its an olympus d-460 zoom.

 

[joe schmoe]

AFAIK, sculpins usually have disproportionately (sp?) large heads, so sculpin is out.

 

[andruboz]

when you see him from the front, he's got a tan/white stripe up the middle of his head. he looks enuff like a goby to my bumblebee goby, that they will chase each other around. [the bumblebee wont chase mollies his same size, so they are making some kind of connection.] and it looks like he's foraging/ looking for chow. i'll consider it a good sign.

one more try. with the camera

 

[rjl420]

I think it may be either a freshwater stone fish or a leaf fish. is the fish somewhat wide bodied? or is more leaf like? if it's wide bodied it's a stone fish. I think both are actually somewhat brackish though.

 

[joe schmoe]

Send the full-sized pic to me and I'll host it for a couple days. That way we can get a good look at it.

 

[olaf]

It belongs to the Wasp Fish family.
Vespicula depressifons

 

[andruboz]

hey! it does look very wasp fish. especially the the little spike on the front edge of the topfin. and the clear tail. you can almost see the white stripe up the head in olaf's pic.
thanks olaf.

i'll keep trying to get a good pic joe, but it might take awhile.

 

[kablam]

My LFS sold them as indian gobeis

You can pretty much keep them with any brackish water fish not big enough to eat him. I made the mistake of having on in a tank with moray. They are pretty neat fish.