Peter Schmiedel

Sorry - was not online a while! When are you here? If I am arround I could show you something. But I ma on vacation May 1st - 25th Contact me by email: info@reefsafe.de Cheers Peter

JC, I keep fish since more then 20 years and thes eare the first Gramma linkii I have seen. So dont be worried if you dont find them local. I am kinf of a treasure hunter on fish here in Europe - we all need to be a bit nuts and thats my contribution.

Of course pom pom crab =http://www.Meerwasser-Lexikon.de/index.php?kategorie_id=58&tier_id=819&sprache=de&name=Lybia tesselata]Lybia tesselata .. If you show me the down side I tell you the ######

Actually I am quite fare away from Singapore as I am in Belgium / Europe I have no idea if we can compare prices and dont have the conversion rate but I can give you roughly the US$ rates: L.rubre - 100.- L.swalesi - 50.- L.carmabi - 200.- People consider R. carmabi being the most buitifull one - and I absolutly agree: I keep Gramma loretto and even the absolute rare Gramma linki, but not in the same tank and not together with Liopropoma. You are absolutly right with your asupmtion the they could conflict / compete about food and space. I am currently out of the country on a business tripp and might answer late - PM to alert me was a very good idea!

In general the genus Liopropoma is a good canidate for a reef tan, but - as they live in caves, they do not like bright light and stay mostly in the shadow - to small gobies etc could be seen as finger food I keep pairs of L.rubre. L.swalesi and L.carmabi and all are perfect citizens

Hi 35, none of my tanks are covered - and I still have them In case of getting spooked they just dart onder rocks or corals. So far no jumping recorded. All fish who jump end up as finger food for one of our three cats Meanwhile I got the paper form Australia which confirms that the goby is T. colini Cheers Peter

Hi friends! Found the perfect tank mates for our griesi's: Size 1,5 -3cm, I keep 4 but not with the Griesi couple. Wanted to know fist how this for me abolutly new dart fish behaves. Cheers Peter

Expect the fact the "She" is more round and you can clearly see the egg mass in her body I cant really ###### them. She is more active and the one who is digging (btw - sand spitting of course in upside down position). He is more shy and stays hidding, but she is almost always to see ... but I have less luck with seeing my grisi's so guess that levels out

Nice pic of the Priolepis. You have the "version" with more yellow. I have the black and white ones. I believe it is a location variance, but who knows maybe even diffrent species? Hope you gave her a nice cave and some sand to dig? My couple always hangs belly up under a cave and she is digging the sand away under the rockwork on one side of the cave. Her with eggs shineing through her belly: Him: and the stay with our topic:

Hi, thanks for the replie and good to know that your trio is fine. I really can imagine how you always looked at the little stone removed Here the dealer price is about 120.- -150.- EUR - which is about less then the US $, but as I buy my stuff at the wholesalers ... I thing I have to remove my signigobius biocellatus form the same tank to give them more peace. I did not see my small one since a while and as i had a nightly powercut for 6 hours (lost some unreplaceable fish - own catch from Ascenssion) it could be that I lost it too. Dont really expect it as it is normal for me not to see them regularly. I might have to add that I have currently almost 20 tanks running ... nuts? me ?? No just a bit :D

Guess you guy's changed scope just a little bit I had a pair of C. lineatus- Made it very good. Very pretty fish. But the holy grail I have never seen in Europe and when I compare the prices asked in the US - I dono if I ever want them

How the hell does he do that?? Soemtimes I dont see mine for weeks! Are there pic's from this tank available?

Hi @alll thanks for the nice welcome! Is'nt it wonderfull how the web enables all of use the share our thoughts! This is the best grisi thread i ahve ever seen and I will post a link in my german forum I received another answer from Rudie Kuiter (soon he will start on his goby book :D): Quote: I only ever seen them once in their (probably) typical habitat. Depth was about 12 m and lots of small boulders with algae and bryazoa growth on them. I could just grab these with one had whilst the camera in the other. There were several there, at least 4, maybe 6 individuals. To get to see them in the aquarium you may need to provide some small roundish rubble pieces, say 10 cm in diameter, and create overhangs about 25 mm high you can look into. Giving lots of hiding possibilities may actually give you the best chance. The only other one I’ve seen diving was when using rotenone and one came floating out from amongst boulders about 30 to 40 cm in diameter that were covered by green algae on top. This was in about 15 m depth. end quote @35 is there an update on how your 3 are doing? The clip is amazing but shows a rather strong unexpected aggression. Guess that food competition determines the qty /tank we can keep. I can see on the posted pic's that some have the little notch in the dorsal spine. One of mine has the other does not. How is it with yours?

Hi @all I was asked to add my thought to this thread - thx for that Basically all I know or have experienced with the two I keep has been said already. I added them together and I hardly ever see them. They house in a tank 80x40x40 Centimer and share it with a pair of Signigobius biocellatus, 2x Trimma sp and 4x Trimma cana. Mine do share the same borrow. I could never observe any interaction with the other gobies. I also never sah them eating anything, but as I have them now for 6 month they must find enough food - but I did not see them growing yet. Rudie Kuiter confirmed by mail that they live very very cryptic and avoid any open light. He thinks that the color pattern of the fins and the moving of the fins is ment to mesmerize the prey. In general I think they are very interessting fish but should only be keep by real specialist who can give them a dedicated tank and dont worry if they dont see the gobies for weeks - but the price - at least here in Europe- is luckly high enough to avoid miss buying oi beginners. Cheers from Belgium Peter