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A few new fish!

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February 4, 2015 at 5:24 am #303538

Plaamoo
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Been following the Facebook barb group and drooling over the dawkinsias for some time now. Finally got it together to order a few d. rohani and they only have 4 left. Ok, that’ll do for now so I order. Got a cal at the last minute and there are only 2! So I have 2 They are nice. I’m wondering about the black mark mid body?

Also got 3 of these. Beautiful little fish but going to need some special care to put on weight.

February 4, 2015 at 10:34 am #354101

oaken
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What’s the name of the goby? It’s very beautiful.

February 4, 2015 at 5:18 pm #354111

Plaamoo
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Sicyopus zosterophorus.

https://www.seriouslyfish.com/species/search/sicyopus+zosterophorus

February 5, 2015 at 3:39 am #354115

Barb Man
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Where did you order those from? I was obsessed with rohani before they were Dawkinsia glad to see someone who has some and you live in my state too. You keeping them with the gobies? I had some Puntius titteya that did really well alongside my white cheek gobies and Stiphodon semoni.

February 5, 2015 at 10:08 am #354117

oaken
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Ah. They’re lovely. And those are some good pictures in the profile..

February 8, 2015 at 10:08 am #354126

Matt
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How big are the Dawkinsia Jim?

February 8, 2015 at 5:01 pm #354132

Plaamoo
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2 1/2 inches or so Matt.

February 13, 2015 at 11:18 am #354152

Matt
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The black marks do look aberrant for fish of that size? One of Marc’s papers suggests that some Dawkinsia spp. form natural hybrids at certain localities. Not saying that is what we are seeing here, but interesting nonetheless.

February 13, 2015 at 5:08 pm #354163

Plaamoo
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Great paper thanks Matt! I’ve read a bit about the suspected hybrids and it makes sense given the wide variations. I posted these pics on facebook also, Shankar & Sushanta both said that they had d. rohani with similar markings.

March 10, 2015 at 6:10 pm #354327

Plaamoo
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I got 3 more d. rohani, now in quarantine. These fish are strange in that they prefer flake food to frozen. I feed spirulina brine shrimp, mysis, and bloodworms. They take them in and spit them out, then ignore them. I feed flake and they go nuts! I’ve never seen this before. I’m assuming they’re wild caught. Anyone else seen this behavior?

March 17, 2015 at 5:31 pm #354344

Matt
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Maybe they’re not wild caught…

March 29, 2015 at 4:51 am #354372

Entomancer
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Pretty sure Plaamoo got these from The Wet Spot. It’s my local shop (relatively speaking), and while it is located in Portland, Oregon, Bellingham isn’t terribly far away by car. They had those gobies in really recently and they showed up on their weekly update blog.

I would have bought some, but I’m not terribly experienced with gobies aside from Brachygobius sp. Judging from the morphology, Sicyopus sp. probably needs a tank with some current, and I was unprepared to offer those conditions in a timely manner.

I’ll make do with the Indostomus watching me cautiously from the tank to the right of my keyboard…

April 2, 2015 at 7:21 am #354385

Plaamoo
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April 3, 2015 at 5:54 pm #354386

Kajsa12
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Nice. Are they all H. humilis, Jim?

And nice Dawkinsia btw. I still have mine(D. singhala).
It’s a pity you can’t keep them in a planted tank. They eat almost any plant, except for Microsorium.

April 3, 2015 at 6:52 pm #354387

Plaamoo
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Thanks Henri, h. nanensis. Just got them. I also got 3 more dawkinsia for a total of 5 and I’m loving them! There are a few plants in the tank but they haven’t bothered them yet. These fish are odd, they prefer flake food. They seem to be slowly catching on to the frozen foods. I’m not familiar with d. singhala? Will have to google them.
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