OUr local aquarium club had a fish show this weekend and I packed off the largest of my female bumblebees, the white cheek goby male and the dormitator...
Can anyone help me out? I work in a pet store and we got in 6 Redigobius Balteatus. One I bought, and am keeping in a brackish tank. Brackish by way of 'Doc ...
Hello Static having worked in a Petsmart years ago, I feel for you. Seeing unique fish come in and knowing if you don't save them, they are slated for death......
Hallo, staticpulse I live in Iriomote Island, southern Japan. I find many Redigobius bikolanus, and sometimes R. balteatus in the river near my house. The fish...
Hello Staticpulse, Redigobius should be kept in mild brackish water, as Yuikebe recommends. I would use sea salt (such as Instant Ocean) as it contains trace...
Is fine sand a good substrate? What would be best? How many gallons would 5 R. Balteatus Need? Also.. Are males aggressive with each other? I think I've got ...
<<Is fine sand a good substrate? What would be best? >> I use fine playbox sand in my freshwater tanks, and have had good results with it. Frank M. Greco...
Hi Static, Yes, I also use play sand as substrate (in both fresh and saltwater). A ten or twenty gallon tank is sufficient for 5 R. balteatus - the males will...
Dear Mudskipper enthusiasts, in my mudskipper aquarium I have sand in the land section and buried underneath the sand I have plastic (PVC) pipes with a...
Yes Richard, ...exciting! If you have more than one of these tubes with 'threads', though, I would take one of them out and place it in another smaller tank to...
Dear colleagues, Attached is a PDF version of "A revision of the Indo-Pacific fish genus Caragobius Gobiidae: Amblyopinae)" co-authored with Koichi Shibukawa. ...
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thanks for that Ed. I did a conversion to pdf of your word table and all the columns are nicely aligned - strange. Cheers, Richard....
Richard, The same thing happened in the publishing process according to the editor. He told me he made the initial conversion to pdf and there was no problem, ...
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... This is website of my friend, Mr. Tamutaro. When he comes in Okinawa, I always go to the river in Iriomote Island in order to guide him. I took picture of...
I purchased a goby from petco that was labeled "dinosaur fish" I recently found and uploaded some pictures of a fish that is identical to mine. The pictures...
Hi Coyote, the pictures you downloaded are from a Japanese web site and are indeed of pseudapocryptes elongatus. The are a type of mudskipper, not as...
Dear Mudskipper enthusiasts, a breathtaking mudskipper shot at: http://bluenative.zero-city.com/ariake_2003/tobi3712a-19.jpg Also some other great shots...
Richard, I have indeed imported them in the past. However, I have not seen them on the listings lately. They tend to spend almost all their time in the water,...
Dear Richard, I would like to know the species of the mudskipper you expect to make them spawn. As far as I know, only Boleophthalmus birdsongi and...
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Dear Coyote, I have not seen the photo. If the fish is P. elongatus as Richard thought, it might not be easy to keep in an aquarium. P. elongatus has been...
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Dear Mudskipper enthusiasts, ... Toru Takita has pointed out that mudskipper eggs are about 1 mm in size and that the threads are not likely to be longer the...
I am now on my way to my fifth spawn of bumblee fry and so far I have killed off each one. I read Naomi's article that the fry need APR and will drift through...
Hi Michelle, Sorry for the delay in my response!! Don't feel bad - I learned to breed fish using bumblebees and it took several spawns. The fry could be...
Thanks. They hatch on fri so I have a few days to get everything ready. Its too late to get marine rotifers so powdered it will be! I will post if the golden...
I tried looking at messaged and was given a notice that this group had no messages and that the group was invalid. Any one else having problems? Michelle...
Ed, regarding the mudskipper specimen labelled as Ps spilotus that you have on loan from the Australian Museum. Is it actually Ps. spilotus ? And if it is...
What is a proper range of Salinity for these guys? They are currently doing well at 1.005 Specific Gravity, or 9 ppt, at 79/80 f. How high can I safely take...
Hi Terry, I THINK R. balteatus can survive in seawater (I've not personally tested it) but if I were you, I wouldn't worry about the skimmer, as they are a lot...
hello Terry, I like Redigobius, and am working on a revision of the genus. I've collected these guys in a mangrove-fringed rocky bay that tasted like seawater ...