Anyone Want To Take A Chance On Id'ing This Goby?
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September 1, 2010 at 4:04 pm #300832
Popped into a Pets at Home today whilst my 6yr old was having an eye-test in the hospital, they had some Pseudogastromyzon cheni in stock and whilst looking at them I spotted a contaminant, and after a brief conversation with a clueless member of staff I walked away with it for £1.49
I’m thinking that given it’s most likely from China then it’s possibly a Ctenogobius sp?
September 3, 2010 at 7:39 pm #318713No takers?
I think I will tentatively go with Ctenogobius for now
September 3, 2010 at 10:02 pm #318714Are there any Chinese species inhabiting solely fw?
September 3, 2010 at 10:35 pm #318715According to Fishbase there is: Ctenogobius chengtuensis. How reliable is Fishbase these days?
I haven’t looked into it too deeply yet. I have a very small marine tank should it come to it but, I’m thinking that if it was caught with the P. cheni then it’s quite some way from the sea or a brackish environment? It’s not likely to have been migrating to the sea, was it?
September 3, 2010 at 10:57 pm #318716There appears to be a few according to Fishbase, though of course there are no images for comparison
September 5, 2010 at 9:47 am #318723Hate to point out the obvious but does it not look like a female Rhinogobius duospilus?
September 5, 2010 at 3:28 pm #318729There’s always the chance that it wasn’t caught with the cheni, but mixed in at the shipping point in Singapore, Thailand, wherever???
September 5, 2010 at 4:45 pm #318730QUOTE (afroturf @ Sep 5 2010, 10:30 AM) < {POST_SNAPBACK}>Hate to point out the obvious but does it not look like a female Rhinogobius duospilus?Well, it does now
QUOTE (plaamoo @ Sep 5 2010, 04:11 PM) < {POST_SNAPBACK}>There’s always the chance that it wasn’t caught with the cheni, but mixed in at the shipping point in Singapore, Thailand, wherever???That’s very true
September 6, 2010 at 12:22 am #318735Spotted Steven!
September 7, 2010 at 10:28 am #318758Whenever i happen into a [email protected] i tend to be put off by all the dead or dying fish in the tanks… I’m looking actively for Rhino’s and i’ve not managed to find one not even a contaminant in any store I look in! I’d hazard a guess at duospilus too.
September 7, 2010 at 4:03 pm #318760Fortunately the stock in this particular one was pretty good, don’t think I’ve even seen an instance of spot either, not that I’ve been in there that often. The member of staff I was dealing with was clearly not clued in about fish and her expression just went blank when I told her it was a goby
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