Hitchhiker/ new appearance

[Jlsardina]

Hello. I know it's not the best pics, but can u help with this coral (or pest) identification?


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Also, my husband went for a dive in the reef off the keys and picked this up (sigh). I know it's a goby but not sure of the type. My LFS said it was a Baldein goby (some newly identified spices).

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[mr_X]

looks like zoas in the first pic.
don't know about the fish. i would be concerned that the unknown fish i caught was poisonous, a predator, or perhaps even endangered.

 

[joy13]

I can't find where it was posted here or another forum where someone got what they thought was harmless blenny off the coast of Florida that was a predator. Needless to say it didn't end well.

 

[Tony Gill]

Looks like Bathygobius soporator. Do a search on the internet and see how it compares.

Tony

 

[Tony Gill]

This website will help: Florida Gobioidei. Check out the key to Western Atlantic species to sort out which species of Bathygobius you have. You should be able to get a reasonable count of scales along the sides of the body to sort out whether it might be B. soporator. Distinguishing the other two species using pectoral-ray counts is a little tricky in this genus as the upper rays are divided and frill-like (which is where the common name "frill-fin gobies" comes from). Good luck with it.

I have kept various Indo-Pacific Bathygobius in the past, and would guess that Atlantic ones are similar to keep. They are okay, though will predate on anything they can fit in their mouths - though this holds for many other gobies too.

Tony

 

[Jlsardina]

Thanks! Now I can tell my LFS what it is. I took him there after he ate both my peppermint shrimp in two days. The LFS is holding him now waiting on me to tell them what to do.

 

[Unicorn]

Thanks! Now I can tell my LFS what it is. I took him there after he ate both my peppermint shrimp in two days. The LFS is holding him now waiting on me to tell them what to do.

Oh, sorry u lost ur peppermint shrimp

How about taking him back were he came from

 

[Jlsardina]

Plan on it- but have to wait til the weekend cause I'm 4 hours from the keys

 

[Unicorn]

Plan on it- but have to wait til the weekend cause I'm 4 hours from the keys

Then u r still closer than me (Orlando). Gla ur taking him back, that's the best decision

 

[Jlsardina]

Yeah. I'm in Naples so I have to go across the state and then south. Lol.