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I found a few Stiphodon sp today. They just had the common name of 'sunset goby'. Here's a few pictures. Males with the rose colouration and females without.

Fellow findings.....

Very interesting fish. I like the coloration, particularly the males and the striped guy.
I think Martin has some gobies of that genus.

Yeah....I took some pics of Stiphodon at Emma's shop. They're primarily algae grazers. I've never seen mine do anything but graze rocks.

Martin.

Heheheh! "Hello is that fish-aholics anonymous? My name's Graeme and I think I have a problem!".....

Seriously though, lovely-looking little gobies. Have you got them in with any loaches?

Emma

Problem? where? who? what?

I've got these little chaps in with the Pangio's but will soon move to a tank with more water movements.

Cheers.
Graeme.

How are they behaving, is there much interaction between them and the Pangios?

To be honest, they are totally ignoring them. It's the Peacock Gobies which are to my concern, which are 'hovering' around the Pangio's and seem a little miffed as to what they are. Arrrgg! not another tank for the Gobies i forsee!!

Emma Turner wrote:Heheheh! "Hello is that fish-aholics anonymous? My name's Graeme and I think I have a problem!".....

Seriously though, lovely-looking little gobies. Have you got them in with any loaches?

Emma

Graeme could become the Maidenhead Aquatics of Newcastle .

Nice find Graeme they look very fish interesting indeed.

Mad Duff wrote:Graeme could become the Maidenhead Aquatics of Newcastle .

Now that thought has been happening alot lately!

Graeme Robson wrote:

Is this a Stiphodon ornatus and if so, could it be kept with hillstream loaches?

Hello,

I also would like to know which species is this striped fish.
They are just beautiful! :)

Thanks in advance.

Beautiful pictures!

Graeme- I have been on this forum only a short time (since around the beginning of the year), but continue to enjoy the great variety of species that you post high quality pictures of. Thank you.

I can't help being curious since I have never seen any information about how many tanks you have. Over the months I have guessed that you must have a very large number of tanks and an amazing setup. If this is a secret because you wish to hide the extent of your obvious addiction, then I understand, but I, and I am sure others, would be interested to see pictures of your tanks and to learn more about how you keep it all going (water changes (automated?, continuous drip?, Python?, carry buckets?), feeding, etc). Would you tell us more?

Hi Graeme,
I think I found a similar species but so far have been unable to identify them. Darrel the fish buyer had them down as a Red Stripe Gobies but couldn’t give me any further information. If I knew their requirements I might pick a couple up.





Unfortunately by the time I got these pictures they were pretty well washed out from being chased from their hiding spots. normally the vertical banding is much darker and vivid as well as the mustache being nearly black. The dorsal shows some redness so I wonder if thats where the name Red Stripe Gobie comes in?

Graeme - I love the look of those fish! Can I ask where you found them? I (heart) gobies.