NEVER get a highfin goby !

[Emg]

Stupid fish.........

This is the 3rd high fin goby I've found dried up like a french fry on my floor ! What is it with these stupid things ???? I have a glass lid on my tanks and everything ! There's barely a toothpick wide space for that stupid fish to get through......but the dork found it !

Ok, so maybe I should have learned after the last two, but they were in a different tank and I thought maybe the clowns and yellow tail damsel scared them out....but all I've got in this tank are two purple firefish...AND....a tighter fitting lid. I thought...."one can't possibly flip out this time !"

Wrong....wrong.....so very wrong.........

well, at least I got a few good pics of it before it took that leap to neverneverland....stupid fish !










OK.....how about a two spot algae blenny ? Does anyone here know whether or not these are as incredibly stupid as the highfins ?

[Tim]

EMG,
Beautiful pictures.
Did you get some shots of the fish all dried up?
Sorry you have such an interest in stupid fish. Must be time to go back to Tanganyikans.
Tim

[steveh28]

Oh! sorry for your loss! This is my favorite fish, and I recently was able to purchase one. I guess I need to keep an eye on mine, since my tank is open top!

As far as the blenny, I have no first hand experience with that species, however the only blenny I have ever seen jump from a tank was a Midas.

[Emg]

Haha Tim.....not a chance...

Thanks Steve, and yeah, it'll be a really good idea to get something over that tank or it'll be a crisper for sure !

[Barbie]

Do you have anything that could be chasing these guys? They can jump, but 3 in a row is really beating the odds! I have kept quite a few of them over the years and I have yet to have one hit the floor, that's strange.

I would suggest a tail spot blenny, if it was up to me .

Barbie

[Emg]

Thanks Barb

I did have a coral beauty in the 50....and a pair of clowns...and I also suspect I've got a pistol in there,not one of the nice decorative ones, but one of those larger mean ones. I figured maybe the coral beauty might have scared them out of that tank. But the 29 only has a pair of purple firefish and a peppermint shrimp. They seemed to get along fine, in fact....if there were any issues at all it was the high fin making big faces at the firefish and scooting them off. I don't have a clue...I'm just amazed that the thing could find those little holes at all !

I wonder how many times it whacked it's head on the glass trying before it finally bingoed. Can't imagine what fairlyland that fish was trying to find.....I think it's a nice little tank...I'd like it if I were a fish...

I'll add tailspot blenny to my list of possibilities.....nice fish.....Thanks !

[johnpeezy]

is the tank a bare bottom??

My friend has three of those little guys in his 72 bow, fine grit substrate bout 1" deep or so.

ALL three of them are hosting a shrimp of somesort under a dug out section of liverock in the center of his tank. they never move, you stare at them and 6 beedy little eyeballs (usually with one pair looking like alfalfa because of the redicilus looking fin pointing straight up in the air) are staring back at you.

you rarely see them move an inch.

[Emg]

NOpe, I've got a good couple inches of argonite sand in there. I had a pistol shrimp with the first pair of high fins that I had. The shrimp paired up with one of the gobies and they even dug up a hole and settled in.

[Ricardo Melendez]

Hey man... the fish is NOT stupid... you didn't have the proper niche in your aquarium for him to be comfy! As I think was mentioned before... these types of shrimp gobies should not be kept without the appropiate pistol shrimp allie!! The best is to buy them together... chances are they were caught like this already have a trutworthy and loving relationship. I have a tiny high fin goby in my tank with a huge flame, yellow tank, orchid dottyback and black clowns!! what i did was when i got the fish and shrimp I put them in a pvc tubing 1 sided opening and carefully burried the tube below a rock... leave it there fore a while..... the shrimp will get to work at his best and start to create a burrow that will probably be it's home in the tank ... Once they settle they usuall at least mine never move !! I also have a beautifull yasha goby/shrimp for over 2 years... it was the FIRST fish in my tank! So as summary these fish do not thrive without their associated shrimp since it is they that create and mantain the safety burrow wich will house them... the fish on the otherhand is the lookout for any predators!! IT"s an amazing mutualism... here a link to a vid of my yasha!! if you watch after minute 1 you will see how determined the little lobsters are and how they are picky in placing rocks and stuff!! Jajaj hoped to have helped in some way!

[Emg]

Lol...this is a pretty old thread...but.....

.........I did have a tiger pistol with one of them and they made a nice little abode in one front corner of the tank. They seemed happy and settled...but then one morning both were gone. That was maybe a year and a half ago. At that time I only had a pair of clowns and a coral beauty and one other High fin in the tank with it.

The ONLY picture I ever got of the two of them.....