What Is This?

[bUcky]

what kind of fish is this? all i know is i asked the guy for 50 ghost shrimp and there were 4-5 of these in the bag with them after i got home.

there swimming happy in my planted tank with corys and the shrimp





thanks

 

[Ranger]

Hmmm... it would appear to be some sort of fish... but heck what to do I know.

Sorry, I don't know what they are . Please don't take offense to my sense of humor

 

[bUcky]

i thought they were Penguins, im glad u cleared that up for me!

 

[Mr.September15]

LOL when you said penguins It made me want to look back and check if they were really penguins. I wish I had a penguin as a pet

 

[cane76]

it looks like some sort of goby

 

[Fruitbat]

It is likely some sort of darter but there's no way of telling which species without precise collecting locale information.

-Joe

 

[willtang3000]

its a goby they are native to our waters were the shrimp are collected in the thames and get mixed up with them well atleast i think they do remember reading this from one of cfc's posts can you add anymore cfc?

 

[cane76]

hes from florida

 

[The-Wolf]

seeing as it is in with a bag of shrimp
I'm hedging my bets that it is a stickleback of some kind.

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

If you can find out where the guy got the shrimp from that would be a lot of help in ID'ing the fish.
It definately looks like some sort of goby to me- it looks a lot like a Rhinogobius duospilus, a sub-tropical freshwater goby;

http/filaman.ifm-geomar.de/Country/Count...ecies=duospilus

 

[CFC]

As Fruitbat said it is a darter of some kind, though the location of collection is needed to identify the exact species as there are several very similar looking species.

 

[bUcky]

heres what i KNOW.

I live in tampa and got the brine shrimp from a local store. the delivery truck that brings the fish is from a local farm here. and its likely not to far from around here or more south. the tampa bay area has 1000s of privetly owned fish farms some of the biggest in the world. THe biggest tropical fish farm was acctually on the street i live on 5 years ago untill they outsorced to south america for the cheap land and labor. there distibutor is still here though. so most likely its from the Tampa bay area.

not to interested in the species just the info on how to keep them? what do they eat? what do they live with. thanks

 

[Fruitbat]

Darters are relatively easy to keep and many of them will quickly acclimate to flake food so you shouldn't have much trouble keeping them alive. Frozen 'water fleas' (Daphnia) are usually available in a well-stocked local fish store and will likely be much appreciated as will frozen 'bloodworms'. They are not truly 'tropical' fish (or they wouldn't be native to North America) but since yours likely came from somewhere in Florida I wouldn't subject them to excessively cold water. They will probably be fine in an aquarium at room temperature or slightly warmer. Most darters (but not all) prefer fairly fast-moving water so a decent current (provided by your filter) will probably be appreciated. They are generally not aggressive toward other fish, though the males can be rather rough with each other during breeding season. Obviously you don't want to keep them with other fish that might consider them a snack.

-Joe

 

[Fella]

Definitely a darter just to confirm the previous theories.

 

[Loko17]

Now why cant I get something cool like that with my Ghost shrimp. All I ever get are parasitic worms. Lol. Cool little fish, Although I'm sure they're darters they sure do look a lot like gobies.