What is it?

[Gillybaby]

Ok ok, I know you should never buy a fish without researching it first but I've kinda fallen in love with this wee guy:

In the cup acclimatising:


In the tank:


TMC have called him a Bumblebee Blenny although he is clearly not a blenny, more like a goby. He's about 1" long and likes to hang upside down under rock overhangs. He can also swim upside down. I watched him in the lfs picking up bits of sand and digging a bit as well.

I'm off to search the web myself but thought one of you lot might be able to point me in the right direction. So, anyone seen one of these fish before and can give me a name or any info?

Ta muchness

[Gillybaby]

I guess no-one has seen these before. Oh well, managed to find out what he is anyway. He's most probably a Priolepis borea (info). Unfortunately, he appears to be from temperate waters off the coast of Japan and Korea and aren't usually found in the trade. Goodness knows where TMC got them from.

Still they inhabit tide pools so my hope is he'll be ok in a slighter higher temp. He's made himself at home (upside down) in my barnacle, right at the front of my nano. He's yet to eat but I'm gonna try him on cyclopeeze and vitamin enriched brine shrimp tonight as this is what he fed on in the lfs.

[trik]

Looks the same as a blue band shrimp goby (Cryptocentrus cyanotaenia)

[Gillybaby]

Mmmm, the markings are vaguely similar but the shape and behaviour is all wrong. The profile seems to fit Priolepsis more than a shrimp goby. The lfs said they didn't burrow just hung and swam upside down all day. The one I picked did move the sand about like he was looking for food but swam back into his cave when threatened.

Thanks for the hint though ;)

[moorish]

according to a photograph in one of my books looks like as already stated apriolepis boreus,common name is banded head goby.derek