<<Someone told me that many people on this mailing list are
also interested in gobies and gudgeons.
If this is true could those people give me their email
addresses as I would not like to clog up this forum with
non rainbow fish discussions.>>
I'm sure we all enjoy some goby and gudgeon discussion as byplay (or is it foreplay) :-) Welcome to the list Richard. I am going to stop sending to the Brackish list because of some kind of encrypting problem which I am sure is a nuisance to all the other
listmembers.
<< I eventually caught about 6 gobies, 2
different species.>> :
<<Goby 'A', light in colour, flat head, flat snout (not rounded or pointed),
dark band through 1st dorsal, irregular angled bands on face
and body, small eyes more on the side of the face.
(It looks a bit like a largemouth goby, Redigobius macrostoma,
but does not have a large mouth)>>
Large males only have the big mouth - and then only some of them. Perhaps it is something to do with dominance?
Could they be Redigobius bikolanus which will do well in anything from marine to fresh and some populations are even land-locked in pure fresh and breed well there.? I am not aware of them occurring so far south. .
<<Goby 'B', light in colour, flat head, pointed snout, 6 regular dark
blotches along body, tiny reddish/orangish spots on back,
dark bands on the face running though the eyes, large eyes
more on top of the face with dark circle around the eye,
mostly clear dorsals but faint reddish/orangish bands running
through the dorsals. Only one goby has a very long spike
coming out of the first dorsal>>.
Could they be the Japanese Goby Acanthogobius flavimanus which has colonised large areas of our southern coast?
Bruce Hansen
ANGFA