Dormitator update...still looks like a maculatus, but also still not quite...

[fishtex]

still looks just like mine, just a little larger. Or should I say mine looks like yours. haven't had any health problems and eats like a pig . I hope yours stays healthy and keeps growing. The nerf football twin would be a good look for a fish.

 

[knifegill]

Oh, no. If yours is female and mine is male... $$

 

[fishtex]

any way to sex them? i'll try to put some update pics of mine on here later if you don't mind-

 

[knifegill]

Please do! I can't wait to see more pics.

Gender is easiest to differentiate during spawning, but males have more finnage on top for sure. My fish has what looks like a permanently exposed organ emerging from his vent. It looks like a hard, curled arrowhead or shovel head and has always been there, neither retracting or moving. Makes my think male but I don't know. You can probably make it out in some of those pics.

http://www.houstonfishbox.com/vforu...46-Sleeper-Goby-Fat-Sleeper-Jade-Sleeper-Goby

Suggests blue are female and more orange specimens are male. Oddball bred them so he'd know for sure.

 

[Madding]

If both of yours look like that then perhaps its just some sort of spoonhead variety or something... I never see them like that in LFS around here.

 

[knifegill]

Interesting. How does the spoonhead defect differ from the Short-bodied defect? Or is it as obvious as it sounds? Does my fish have both spoonhead and SB?

 

[fishtex]

Couldn't do to good with the cell-cam today. Heres the best i could get

Looks like it has some orange hues and a thin strip of lighter color on dorsal.

 

[knifegill]

Not bad. He looks like he's about to put in some serious weight! Is he a super-eater? Mine is an absolute hog.

 

[fishtex]

well I've got quite the stocklist in the 130. They have all switched over to tilapia as the staple and carnivore sticks, bloodworms, crickets and a few other occasional treats. I've never seen him stop eating when there was food to be had.