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bettabeats wrote:how can we tell they are both males?

Have a look at the link I posted. Go back through this thread and look at odyssey's pics. Also look at aurora's ID goby thread in this forum, same sp. M/F are quite different. My male doesn't show much color either, maybe immature?

I read the differences. When I apply the information to my pair the longer male is the more vivid and definitely has the orange fins.

the 'female' sometimes I see orange when its fins are lowered, but I have seen many colours. most of the time they are gray. They play together like they are male/female.

My pair could be an adult male and a juvenile. The 'female' chased the male last night and his fins became vibrant orange. It was a very nice sight to see.

My developing understanding is that my stiphodons are males. The female seems to have a diamond body pattern. The male has a bar or rectangle body pattern.

I must re-read this topic.

Hi, everyone.
Though there was a lot of posts, I'm sorry not to be able to do a reply.

There were a relocation and a move in April, so I was busy, and couldn't take time so much.
The move of an water tank and fishes was serious beyond expectation in particular.
I'm buried in many cardboard boxes for moves in the new room at present.
An Internet access just opened to traffic finally yesterday.
If arrangement of the baggage is developed, pictures of Stiphodon will be uploaded again.

By the way some pictures of my Stiphodon seem to have appeared on a magazine as Practical Fishkeeping,
but unfortunately I can't see that.
I'll buy the magazine at the internet bookstore.
I checked Amazon UK, but the magazine of a target wasn't found there.
Doesn't anyone know the net bookstore where I can buy the magazine from Japan?
When someone tells me a good net shop, I'm saved.

Thank you.

Hi Odyssey,

I'll send you a scanned copy now.

Hi odyssey, you've been missed! I thought maybe you were off on a fiishing expedition. Hope all the fish make the move OK!

Hi odyssey,

hope you had an easy move and no casualties in the fish tank.

do you know which issue had you're pictures?

Hi, Matt.
Thank you very much for a copy of the article.
But I'd like to get the magazine as expected.

Hi, plaalye.
A goby workshop is held in June in Okinawa where Stiphodon lives in Japan.
I'm planning to go on an expedition to the workshop, so I may be able to see wild Stiphodon at that time.

Hi, planty.
For the moment, it seems that one of Melanotaenia praecox has just died.
Th publication on which pictures of my Stiphodon appear seems to be March issue.
http://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/issue.php?issue=2

I asked the publishing company to send the magazine 3 times, but I have not received 3 times.
Unfortunately it seems necessary to buy the magazine personally.
It was so unexpected to have trouble to get the magazine with my pictures.

The following picture is the moving state of the water tank.
A lower back was hurt a little by packing and carriage of water tanks.








A setup of water tanks has been completed for the most part.
But unpacking and arrangement in the new room seem still to take.

nice pictures odyssey!


where do you find the silica mineral? does it create brown algae?

Hi bettabeats.

There are several silica additives for agriculture.
The culture of laver is also popular in Japan, so there is also an additive for laver cultivation.

http://www.seimo.co.jp/KW21-English.htm
http://www.seimo.co.jp/gelculture.htm
http://fw-diatom.blogspot.com/
http://www8.plala.or.jp/wamushiya/bok/c ... ture_1.htm
http://www.greenjapan.co.jp/million_mil ... ifresh.htm


I found a video of Stiphodon multisquamus.
Stiphodon multisquamus)(1)
http://video.online.hk/watch/18931

Newcomer pair of S.atropurpureus.
The size of the body exceeds a female most large size of S.percnopterygionus.
But the design of the form besides the red dorsal fin resembles a female of S.percnopterygionus closely.

Hi,

Nice pic i love your posting. I agree with all your points. Well, everyone have their own view. Keep posting on such topics.

Hi bagsoutlet! and everyone.
I traveled to Okinawa in Japanese southern subtropics last month.
It was a main purpose to participate in a goby workshop.
A river there, I crawl and I have taken many pictures of Stiphodon in natural habitat.

It was possible to take a picture of the courtship scene to which a male of S.percnopterygionus invites a female.



Male of S.atropurpureus.
The number of living is small in Okinawa which is their northern limit distributed.


A female of the unclear Stiphodon genus.
It is too big for a female of S.percnopterygionus.


Stiphodon sp
The warming might be the cause, but in late years a species of this Stiphodon came to be seen in Okinawa.



A male of Lentipes armatus.

A female flock of L. armatus.



A male of Sicyopus zosterophorum

A female of S. zosterophorum
It was possible to take a picture of the courtship scene to which a male of S. zosterophorum invites a female.


Sicyopterus lagocephalus


Sicyopterus japonicus


Fry of Sicyoputerus genus

(Big one of the center)


I crawled in this way.
It isn't I to come out in this picture.


A video of full HD is also taken a picture of.
It'll be raised in Youtube eventually.

Wonderful odyssey! It must have been an exciting trip!! Thanks for sharing.

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Beautiful pictures, odyssey.