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Hi TrebleClef84! Of course the breeding in my water tank is absolutely impossible. Their breeding habits are strange, and there are still many mysteries. The artificial breeding of Niwaella delicata still extremely has few success examples at a study stage. But artificial breeding may come true in t...

Hi wijnands! Q1. states that it is an algae and aufwuchs grazer, is this correct? A1. I've been keeping Lentipes and Sicyopus genus for a long time. But I never watched that they grazed algae. I think that Lentipes and Sicyopus genus are warm-eater. I received new information from an expert about th...

Hi :D ! I will celebrate that you got it. :lol: I'm surprised that an aquarist became able to obtain Niwaella Delocata in the United States. I love Niwaella delicata very much. I take a lot of pictures and videos in natural revers in Japan every year. I'd like to show some pictures and videos of N.d...

Hi wijnands! I am sorry that a reply is late. :( Q1. states that it is an algae and aufwuchs grazer, is this correct? A1. I've been keeping Lentipes and Sicyopus genus for a long time. But I never watched that they grazed algae. I think that Lentipes and Sicyopus genus are warm-eater. Q2. Approximat...

Hi plaalye! The female flattened the abdomen which swelled out after this and appeared, but I wasn't able to watch the male figure for a few days. Because my water tank is the jungle of the waterweed, I don't know the place of the nest in the male. Unfortunately I haven't confirmed the figure of the...

Hi everyone! In Japanese, the name of "Bouzu-haze" is given in genus Sicyopterus, Stiphodon, Lentipes and Sicyopus. Japanese name of Sicyopus zosterophorum is Aka-Bouzu-haze It means Red Buddhist Monk Goby. I was able to observe the courtship behavior of pairs of Sicyopus zosterophorum in my aquariu...

Hi everyone! I also visited Plau. I went some rivers and jellyfish lake. But I didn't do diving this time though one of my hobbies was scuba diving. Then I was able to watch more Stiphodon in Palau. There were two types of male, dark brown one and black-and-white one. I doubt whether two types of th...

Hi plaalye! I'm envious of your travels!! In fact, I have fallen into the critical situation during river trekking of Guam. My old sports sandals were broken at the bottom of the gorge on the way of the trekking and were not able to walk. The trekking guide gave me his sports sandals then. And he wa...

Hi everyone! I traveled to Guam and Palau in December of the last year. I finished the arrangement of photos and videos of river trekking Guam finally. I participated in river trekking in Guam for two days and explored many waterfalls. Video clips are on Youtube. No1 Stiphodon pelewensis in Guam htt...

Hi shuwae.

shuwae wrote:I love seeing the gobies in their natural habitat.

How about pics of the Homo sapiens in the natural habitat?
Red one is my picture.

Hi everyone! I traveled to Okinawa in November and took lot of photos underwater in some rivers. Okinawa is a district of Japan at the south end and is a sub-tropical climate. Many amphidromous fish have been carried from the tropics by the Kuroshio Current. I want to show the habits of nature of go...

Hi everyone! I visited some rivers of Izu Peninsula last month and took many photos of underwater. I want to see waterfall-climbing scene of Sicyopterus japonicus and visit the river of Izu Peninsula for five years, but it was only once that I was able to watch it. Sicyopterus japonicus in Izu Penin...

Hi everyone! A scientific name of Stiphodon.sp(Orange fin & spots on the head) which has remained without a scientific name for a long time was decided formally in Stiphodon maculidorsalis. It seems that "maculidorsalis" means the back with spots. Stiphodon maculidorsa was published an article as a ...

Hi Jim, thanks for a comment. Though there were these videos, I forgot to make links to Youtube. Lot of cherry salmons were jamping over the water fall. Oncorhynchus masou (cherry salmon). East part of Hokkaido. http://youtu.be/m8XFnN9-AXg Oncorhynchus masou (cherry salmon) Salvelinus malma（Dolly va...

Hi everyone! I traveled to Hokkaido which belonged to the climate that was northern coolness of Japan in summer vacation. I introduce in this forum in much one which I took a photo of underwater in rivers over there. Hokkaido Oncorhynchus masou (cherry salmon) http://tanzawa-sky-club.air-nifty.com/p...