id this goby

**limz_777** · 10th Mar 2011, 16:13

anyone can id this goby ? possible to sex it too

**plaamoo** · 13th Mar 2011, 00:38

Looks like this. I have several & love them!
http://www.seriouslyfish.com/profile...hodon&species=[pl]sp.+%27ST02%27[%2Fpl]&id=1427

**blue33** · 13th Mar 2011, 01:37

this is a "Red Neon Goby" , prefer to eat algae, can feed them algae waffer also if you dont have live food.

**limz_777** · 18th Mar 2011, 10:13

Looks like this. I have several & love them!
http://www.seriouslyfish.com/profile...hodon&species=[pl]sp.+%27ST02%27[%2Fpl]&id=1427

i enjoy them too

blue33

this is a "Red Neon Goby" , prefer to eat algae, can feed them algae waffer also if you dont have live food.

thanks for id , the light green stuff below it is actually algae wafers

**zacks** · 18th Mar 2011, 13:55

red neon gobby from indonesia.........watch out for your shrimplets.........they gonna eat too.......

**Shi Xuan** · 19th Mar 2011, 11:36

Seems to be either stiphodon atropurpureus or stiphodon elegans. These 2 species seems to be more common in Singapore than other stiphodon sp. All thrives well in a matured tank & feed on algae growing on the tank walls & plants & I have even observed some of my stiphodon gobies feeding on artemia nauplii i kept them the last time. If you want them to breed, I guess low water temperature is the key to breeding stiphodon sp.

**limz_777** · 19th Mar 2011, 17:05

didnt know it eat shrimplets , thanks for the warning

i cant find any female , will try to search for one ,
i am actually looking for Sicydium plumieri it had a suction cup below the body , shi xuan have you kept any before ?

**plaamoo** · 19th Mar 2011, 22:30

Definitely not s. atropurpureous.......http://www.seriouslyfish.com/profile...pureus&id=1374

Mine have learned to eat everything....bloodworms, carnivore pellets etc. Beware feeding too much protien. Their system is not meant for it.

Breeding has not been done sucessfully as far as i know. They have an amphidromous breeding cycle, similar to amano shrimp.

**Shi Xuan** · 20th Mar 2011, 09:38

hi limz_77,

I never kept any other gobies other than the genus of stigmatogobius, brachygobius & stiphodon. They are more common in Singapore than the rest as far as I know. You can try searching for some ornamental fish exporters, I'm sure some of them might carry it in some of their shipments. These are some of the exporters that i know of, hope it might be helpful to you;

http://limpid-aquarium.blogspot.com/

http://www.mimbon.de/

hi plamoo,

I should say stiphodon gobies are a very confusing group of gobies, so I would prefer to call them stiphodon sp. or simply stiphodon would suffice but I think mine should be stiphodon elegans if I'm correct. There's a japanese goby breeder who breeds & knows the various identifications of the stiphodon. He even has a website;

http://www17.tok2.com/home2/tarogoby/index.html

I should say it looks pretty informative with all the pictures to help in the identification.