What Stiphodon it might be?

[EdwardN]

http://www.plantedtank.net/forums/fish/ ... ost1172202

I have a dozen of them ...

[plaalye]

Have a look here....
http://forums.loaches.com/viewtopic.php?t=15686
and here.....
http://www.seriouslyfish.com/profile.ph ... %27ST02%27[%2Fpl]&id=1427

[EdwardN]

Thanks plaalye! So I have a dozen 'Rainbow' males ....

I also have in my tank a half a dozen of Botia sidthimunki ( chain loach) and they are displaying a definitely agressive behaviour towards
'Rainbows', as well as towards Sicyopus jongclassi. My tank is a rather heavily planted one, and there are plenty of spaces to run away and hide .

I wonder if I should remove these loaches in this situation?

[starsplitter7]

Wow! Where are you finding such cool fish in Florida?

Sids are boisterous and sometimes annoying. Are they being aggressive (hurting your other fish or stressing) or are they being curious and annoying?

I have Sids in a mixed tank, and they do sometimes bug the other fish, but never harm them.

[plaalye]

What are the dimensions of your tank? That's a lot of bottom dwellers! are there any other fish, mid or top water for the sids to play with?

[EdwardN]

[quote="starsplitter7"]Wow! Where are you finding such cool fish in Florida?

Sids are boisterous and sometimes annoying. Are they being aggressive (hurting your other fish or stressing) or are they being curious and annoying?

I have Sids in a mixed tank, and they do sometimes bug the other fish, but never harm them.[/quote]

You are very close to Segrest Farms. Unfortunately they are wholesalers only and you would have to talk to your LFS to monitor their weekly availability list and ask to order through that store. Rare fish are like a meteors - they appear for a few days and this is it for month to come.

You might be right, Sids are bothering other fish by trying to wrap themselves around gobies ( in particular), but it is I, who probably gets the most annoyed by this.

One has his favorities, you know...

Thanks for responding!

[EdwardN]

[quote="plaalye"]What are the dimensions of your tank? That's a lot of bottom dwellers! are there any other fish, mid or top water for the sids to play with?[/quote]

Plaayle, I have 180 g. tank, heavily planted and originally landscaped with an old cypress stump, which I divided into three parts and planted over with ferns and Anubias - mostly nana petite, so there already are many places to hide. In addition to that, the back wall is lined up with cork bark, also planted over, which gives some fish and RCSes a lot of privacy.

I still have a dozen of Green Neons and a few other Tetras and Rasboras, which are sometime chased by Sids ( there should be a six of them...). With elongated bodies, Gobies are being subjected to sort of wrapping of Sids bodies as if it would attempt ...post dancing.

I'm monitoring the wholesaler supplying my LFS and decided to switch to +/- Gobies only. I expect other Gobies becoming available, since the temperatures in Florida moderated, and it looks as asian suppliers are recovering after whatever weather disasters they experienced this year.

Unfortunately wholesalers are not Goby specialists, and listing just about every Goby as a Stiphodon - this or that.

Regards

Edward

[EdwardN]

That is how they are listed on Segrest Farms wholesale availability list. I ordered a dozen of them and I will receive them on Thursday afternoon. I hope they will look like the 'Sumatra red neon gobies' as pictured on Frank's Aquarium page. I checked Internet, and it seems that THIS IS IT!!!

While watching my 'Rainbows', I noticed two different specimens among the dozen I received. Both with spotting immediately behind their head and, what appears in the deep shade - flashing sowmehow orange dorsal poiting to be the 'Orange fin', or closely so.

One of the 'Orange fins' is fiercely territorial and chases every 'Rainbow' transgressing on its, quite spacious, territory. The other freely mingles with the remainder 'Rainbows' but not always in sight.

I'm quite fascinated by all this!!!

So it looks like a season for freshwater Gobies at the wholesalers!

And this make me excited as to what other freshwater Gobies will show up over the next few weeks...

[starsplitter7]

I do live close to the US fish farm capitol, but it is also true they are mostly wholesalers. My local fish club visits farms, and sometimes they allow us to buy fish. We will have a huge auction on January 22nd at USF, and I am sure there will be some amazing fish.