Goby hybrid?

[jason the filter freak]

I've seen neon blue goby and neon yellow/gold cleaner gobies, however what I picked up tonight was a blue neon goby with a bright gold head

[Sea Monkey]

I've seen neon blue goby and neon yellow/gold cleaner gobies, however what I picked up tonight was a blue neon goby with a bright gold head

 

I think you're talking about sharknose noby. It's a neon goby with a yellow head. Is this it:

Sharknose Goby

[davelin315]

I picked up two last week and they're both gone already... no idea if they're in there or not.

[jason the filter freak]

cool little buggers $25 a piece on blue zoo and i don't see them sold anywhere else, looks like i got a steal at $12 a piece

[Kevin Garrison]

Where'd you get them for $12ea and did they have any more?

[reefmontalvo]

Did Petco just get some in stock?

[jason the filter freak]

Where'd you get them for $12ea and did they have any more?

 

Petco they were selling them a blue neon gobies. Every once in a while they get ahold of something that the have no idea what it is. They had a maxima once, back before I knew how beautiful or expensive they were marked as a "cleaner clam" $14

[davelin315]

I have seen the neon gobies at Petco before, but the ones I have seen always seem to have fungal growths and more on them... too bad they can't clean themselves.

[Kevin Garrison]

Yeah I got a Springeri Pseudo from Petco in Greensboro, NC once for $5... then the blasted hawkfish decided it was a meal...

[traveller7]

ORA breeds hybrid gobies:

http://www.orafarm.com/gobies.html

[Sea Monkey]

I got two from BRK. They get them quite often.

[reefmontalvo]

Not to knock everything off Topic. But I just got back from two separate Petco's. The first one had guppies in the tank they seemed fine swimming along with there salt water cousins. The guppies were even picking and cleaning the algae covered live rock. The next store barley had anything just a bunch of rocks covered in cyano. I was a bit embarrassed by the site there was salt creep all over the glass and the pumps were blasting a water air mixture in the tanks. But then you go over to the fresh water side and it was nice and clean very well up-kept. Long story short there were slim pickings but they did have some nice live rock for nano tanks.

[reefchick]

There is a new Petco in Ashburn. The conditions are the same - freshie tanks are all pristine, but the salt water tanks are nasty.

 

Very cool gobie BTW

Edited October 6, 2008 by reefchick

[Sea Monkey]

They're great little gobies. They're constantly on my tangs cleaning them. I think their lifespan is only about a year to a year and half though.