new WOLF FISH? ID!

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PoofaceQ

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Stopped by the fish store today and grabbed mt first ornate bichir and what was labeled as "wolf fish". After getting him home and settled in to his new home i did some research. Now obviously i dont see many of these but they seem to have a single dorsal fin, in all species ive seen. Now heres what I got. I still have my fingers crossed but could this be some kind of goby? Im still not complaining it is a great looking fish. Thanks guys.

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thats a marble goby. gets pretty big and i heard there pretty mean. will eat anything thats fit in its mouth. other tehn that there are a nice fish. i want one too but cant find a big one. nice pick up
 
Half-Fish-Half-Amazing;4181896; said:
thats a marble goby. gets pretty big and i heard there pretty mean. will eat anything thats fit in its mouth. other tehn that there are a nice fish. i want one too but cant find a big one. nice pick up
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Actually, marble goby is very gentle.
 
Marbled Sleeper Goby, Oxyeleotris marmoratus. I had one years ago when i tried a brackish tank. At three inches he killed everything. Scats, chromides, puffers.

At about 6 inches i got a 125 g and started a ca cichlid tank. He worked out awesome. No killings. 2 years later the aggression of cichlids grew and i had to thin out the herd and decided to start over.

I started the 125 over and kept the goby in a rubbermaid container for 6 monthes and eventually traded him in at 15 inches. Guy at the store took him and put him a full grown frontosa community the he proceeded to go on a killing spree over a week and wipe out half the community.

Watch out.
 
thanks guys. still happy with the fish. hes in with a larger jack dempsey and green severum and so far all is well.
 
Yes, it's a marble goby (water cow; oxeoleotris marmorata). I've had one for several months. Relatively peaceful but will eat whatever it can, and quickly. Other than that he's a pretty low-action fish, and his growth rate seems just a little slower than a bichir. I've managed to train him to take silver-sides, but he still won't do sinking pellets or anything like that yet.
 
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