I had two when I was in highschool in a little hex tank, they were really fun. They lived on mealworms that they would grab in their mouths and "bodyslam," I mean flip over and thrash around. They were the funniest fish I have ever seen- does anyone here have any?
Mudskippers- anyone ever kept them?
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I kept some mudskippers a while back. They tamed down really quickly. I kept them in a 55gal plant tank (long, low, and wide). These fish got so used to me I could put blackworms or wet crushed flake food in the palm of my hand and they'd jump onto my hand and feed directly off it. It got to the point that they'd jump onto the front glass as soon as they saw me walk into the room and wait for me to lift the cover to hand feed them again. I kept them in brackish conditions and at 80 to 84F. The tank was 80% water and 20% land and I had mangrove roots that also broke the surface. Cool fish... maybe I'll give 'em a go again.
It might be a while but they crack me up so I am planning a brackish tank around them, I'm thinking the little ones so I can do something like the tank you can link to from Frank's Aquarium in the buy and sell.
I have two barbatus muddies, and they will both take pellets right from my fingertips. Very active cute little boogers, they are. Mine are small right now, two and a half inches max, and have more rocks than water in the tank; when I tried the reverse, they seemed to flounder a lot more.