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sj861008 wrote:but I still have a question ：It belongs to what species in these picture ？
http://photo.blog.sina.com.cn/photo/535 ... V0zzegyf6b

I think that it is S.ornatus.
It is Stiphodon which it is easy to obtain most.
It is exported in large quantities constantly from Indonesia.
S.semoni and S.maculidorsalis also rarely mixed in Stiphodon from Indonesia.
But it is easy to distinguish those three kinds.

The body color pattern of S.ornatus is very variegated actually.
There might be a possibility that it contains more species.
However, I think that it is good in S.ornatus now.

Various designs of S.ornatus.

hi Odyssey，Thank you very much for learn a lot from you！Do you have some new video recently？I am looking forward to it
by the way，Do you know what is this language in the picture？That is about stiphodon ！Indonesian？Malay？or Latin？
http://photo.blog.sina.com.cn/photo/535 ... TVNs9f2ie2

sj861008 wrote:Do you have some new video recently？I am looking forward to it
by the way，Do you know what is this language in the picture？That is about stiphodon ！Indonesian？Malay？or Latin？
http://photo.blog.sina.com.cn/photo/535 ... TVNs9f2ie2

It's only the sub-tropical area in the most south that Stiphodon can be seen in Japan.
I visit there at the end of November every year.

It seems that the site is written in Chinese.

Hi everyone.

There was new species of announcement of the Stiphodon genus today.
Stiphodon palawanensis
http://novataxa.blogspot.jp/2015/09/sti ... ensis.html

The scientific article is this.
http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2015/f/zt04018p395.pdf

Thanks odyssey! another beauty!! I shared this at SF.

hi odyssey，I got the picture about Stiphodon palawanensis， It looks too like stiphodon multisquamus，Can you explain the difference between the them？
this is stiphodon multisquamus
http://www.fish-isj.jp/info/fish131125.html

Hi!

It will be useful to compare Fig.1 of two following articles so that you distinguish them.
Stiphodon palawanensis
"having a line of black blotches (male) or a black band (female) on distal part of second
dorsal fin"

Stiphodon palawanensis
http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2015/f/zt04018p395.pdf

Stiphodon multisquamus
http://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/nus/images/dat ... 46-258.pdf

Thank you for your explanation，and i have some pictures about Sicyopterus，Can you distinguish them？
http://photo.blog.sina.com.cn/photo/535 ... VydVk8BYa2
http://photo.blog.sina.com.cn/photo/535 ... k6TTf1#pic
http://photo.blog.sina.com.cn/photo/535 ... kqMm6e#pic
http://photo.blog.sina.com.cn/photo/535 ... k0UN11#pic

I'm sorry that it is very delayed to reply

sj861008 wrote:Thank you for your explanation，and i have some pictures about Sicyopterus，Can you distinguish them？

http://photo.blog.sina.com.cn/photo/535 ... VydVk8BYa2
I don't know this Sicyopterus
http://photo.blog.sina.com.cn/photo/535 ... k6TTf1#pic
It is almost Sicyopterus japonicus.
http://photo.blog.sina.com.cn/photo/535 ... kqMm6e#pic
It is almost Sicyopterus japonicus.
http://photo.blog.sina.com.cn/photo/535 ... k0UN11#pic
I don't know this Sicyopterus

hi Odyssey，thank you very much for your explanation，i asked the owner of these fish，he has told me

Hello odyssey - I tried to pm you but it didn't send for whatever reason. When you see this can you answer these questions:

1)
What size is the tank?
2) what gobies do you have in there?
3)
Possibly share one of your emails with me so that I can message you about something to do with my hillstream biotope - as mentioned earlier I can't pm you on this website. Or tell me if you're on another forum so I can message you there.

Hi fishguy122
I'm sorry that a reply is late.

1)
I keep two water tanks of 60*30*36cm.



Please refer to this topic
http://forums.loaches.com/viewtopic.php ... 75#p157635

2)
Sicydiine Gobies which I keep are as follows.

Stiphodon percnopterygionus
Stiphodon atropurpureus
Stiphodon maculidorsalis
Stiphodon ornatus
Stiphodon semoni

Sicyopterus japonicus
Sicyopterus lagocephalus

Sicyopus zosterophorum

Lentipes.sp

3)
It's better to ask everyone about a general question on the forum page.
And you'd be able to get various responses earlier from everyone more.

Hi everyone.
An awesome book was published!

*************************************************************************************
"Indo-Pacific Sicydiine Gobies"
Biodiversity,life traits and conservation

Philippe Keith, Clara Lord, Ken Maeda
**************************************************************************************

Fortunately I have already obtained it.
It doesn't seem possible to find the book by the internet search yet.
I hope that many people become able to obtain it in the near future.

I introduce only the cover page of the book and a small part of the contents here.
This book includes detailed explanation and photograph of Sicydiine Gobies of the following species.

Stiphodon 30
Sicyopterus 26
Sicyopus 7
Smilosicyopus 7
Lentipes 18

Looks like a fantastic book, Odyssey.

Hope I can find it in the near future.

odyssey wrote:Hi fishguy122
I'm sorry that a reply is late.

1)
I keep two water tanks of 60*30*36cm.



Please refer to this topic
http://forums.loaches.com/viewtopic.php ... 75#p157635

2)
Sicydiine Gobies which I keep are as follows.

Stiphodon percnopterygionus
Stiphodon atropurpureus
Stiphodon maculidorsalis
Stiphodon ornatus
Stiphodon semoni

Sicyopterus japonicus
Sicyopterus lagocephalus

Sicyopus zosterophorum

Lentipes.sp

3)
It's better to ask everyone about a general question on the forum page.
And you'd be able to get various responses earlier from everyone more.

Thanks for replying! My tank is very similar sized to yours as its 60x30x30 cm. May I ask how many gobies are in your tanks? I say this because I'm not sure how they don't fight quite a lot in a fairly small tank. They look really good!
I'm thinking of getting a group of 5 stiphodon rutilaureus for my tank that should be available in a week or 2....on top of the 2 gobies I have could I put any more gobies in the tank? This is my tank: http://imgur.com/TVCFGw8

I tried to create a banked sort of look, so the left side is where the river approaches the bank therefore the rocks appear to be higher. This also allows the creation of many caves for the gobies.

I'd like to say thanks as well because thanks to your videos on your YouTube channel it helped to inspire this tank. Your picture and videos really are impressive and really helped me to try and capture a small piece of the environment in which these gobies live in

Edit: I also see that you keep a few sicyopterus gobies in your tanks; is it true to say that they can get too big for our sized tanks or are they of an OK size for a 60x30cm tank? Thank you

Final thing: what other fish do you keep with the gobies other than hillstream loaches and goldfishes?