Panther Gobie (neovespicula Depressifrons)

[kanzaris]

OK! Sabby you talked me in to it! I will start a mass over haul and water change today...... sonn to be happy fish! Then maybe the mollies will breed and feed the panther! B)

Hi Again

I am glad.
There is a similar thing in New to the hobby section. Have look at it. It’s called Breeze Blocks in a Fish Tank, and The Wolf made this comment: they are not safe.
they are made primarily from cement and that will create havoc with your water params.
then there are the bonding chemicals that will do who knows what to the health of the fish.

Good Luck

Sabby

 

[el_vulture619]

Sand is gone! Also filled up with new water. I left the same media in the filter tho, didnt wanna start a completely new cycle. I will be replacing the media in steps. All the fish are doing fine. I have no substrate in there now, bare bottom.

I will be putting down a darker substrate some black-brown gravel, to better match the panther gobies colour. It was turning the same colour of the sand!

 

[el_vulture619]

I have added black sand today. It looks sweet, and the Panther blends in good. I took some pics of him swimming. It wasnt easy but I got a few good ones.

He is darker now because I was messing with him(trying not to get stung) It normaly has a more marbeled look to him. The LFS had some smaller ones but they didnt look to good so I left them will check back to see if they are still around.

 

[severum boy]

Looking good.
How did the overhall go?

 

[el_vulture619]

The overhaul went great! 8)

I have since but some black marine sand/substate and the he is out in the open alot more. I bought some Cycle brand bacteria solution after the overhaul and it has worked fine. The nitrites are now zero!! I am still waiting for the mollies to spawn....need some free fish food!

It has been eating ghost shrimp like candies. I need to try to train it to take frozen. Panther Gobies are one of a kind!! B)

 

[kanzaris]

The overhaul went great! 8)

I have since but some black marine sand/substate and the he is out in the open alot more. I bought some Cycle brand bacteria solution after the overhaul and it has worked fine. The nitrites are now zero!! I am still waiting for the mollies to spawn....need some free fish food!

It has been eating ghost shrimp like candies. I need to try to train it to take frozen. Panther Gobies are one of a kind!! B)

Hi Again

I am glad everything went ok with changing the sand. Lovley looking fish.

Sabby

 

[el_vulture619]

Thanks Sabby,

You and your husband helped me straighten this out. When I changed the sand I did a whole water change, right away the nitrites were lower and stayed lower than I even had before. After the Cycle it is like all my other tanks, running on cruise control!

I agree about chemicals in this type of sand, who know what else could be in there mutating the fish!

 

[Lhutch]

im glad everthing worked out so good, nice looking fish there, definitly a very interesting fish someday ill get one

 

[el_vulture619]

I picked up 2 more Panthers today!!

They are very small tho, like a 1/2 inch or less. The only prblem I have is feeding them, becuase they are so small. They are very skinny,needing to eat, and being fussy eaters does not help. So I am trying to hatch some brine shrimp fpr the first time. To make sure they see them and get to eat some I will place the fish in a container insid the aquarium and pump the shrimp into the container with a seringe. Hope they can live another day with out food.

 

[el_vulture619]

The news panthers are dead! The brine shrimp didnt hatch in time. They were very thin looking when I bought them, probably from shipping and stress.

I beleive that the small size of these new fish makes them very hard to keep. It doesnt help that they are very fussy eaters. I will get some more with the credit but I will make sure that I have brine shrimp ready and that they are larger than fresh hatched.

Better yet I will see if the LFS can get larger ones, like the one I have now. When they are larger they are easier to feed.

 

[scottrreiter]

The news panthers are dead! The brine shrimp didnt hatch in time. They were very thin looking when I bought them, probably from shipping and stress.

I beleive that the small size of these new fish makes them very hard to keep. It doesnt help that they are very fussy eaters. I will get some more with the credit but I will make sure that I have brine shrimp ready and that they are larger than fresh hatched.

Better yet I will see if the LFS can get larger ones, like the one I have now. When they are larger they are easier to feed.

I to have beem wandering about the dusky panther waspfish or goby. I had one that was about 2 inches but he died he was hard to feed got week and was caught in the filter. I have only seen them at liveaquria.com. where did you get yours?

 

[el_vulture619]

I got them from my LFS, I have seen them at one other store a few years ago. If you had one that was 2 inches it should have been easeir to keep. That is the size of the one I have now. You will have too feed it live foods. I have had no success with frozen or other food. When I fist fed mine I used live ghost shrimp to get it eating. Now I use feeder guppies, with an occasional ghost shrimp.

Every one I have seen is very stressed from shipping, and very skinny. The foods I just mentioned will get them healthy again, then you could try frozen, I however have run out of patience for it and now am trying to raise feeder guppies.

 

[el_vulture619]

The LFS got a shipment of wasp fish in! So I bought the biggest one! Took it home yesterday and put in some feeder guppies.... GULP!! He chowed down! It was very skinny, like I mentioned in the previos post, but because this one was a little bigger, he was able to eat a small guppy. Now he is FAT and I know that it will be ok!
Ill take pics tomorrow, this one is a 1/4 the size of the other.

 

[Starfishpower]

The LFS got a shipment of wasp fish in! So I bought the biggest one! Took it home yesterday and put in some feeder guppies.... GULP!! He chowed down! It was very skinny, like I mentioned in the previos post, but because this one was a little bigger, he was able to eat a small guppy. Now he is FAT and I know that it will be ok!
Ill take pics tomorrow, this one is a 1/4 the size of the other.

hello~ im setting up a new tank and im debating about making it brackish because id like to have a few wasp fish. any advice would be greatly appreciated iv got a 5 gallon tank which presently is in the very beginning stages of cycling. its got white sand about an inch deep, cured bogwood, and java moss presently, .... and java lance fern on the way. the plan so far is to cycle it for 6 - 8 weeks with wild guppies (which will provide natural food for the wasp(s)) and then slowly add a wasp fish every week or 2 (being considerate of the strain on the biofilter) until iv got three. never done brackish water before and iv only goten into this hobby within the past few months when i got a betta. i grew up always catching tadpoles and what not and raising them as a kid so im not entirely new to this in certain respects but an actual aquarium is new to me so any advice will be welcome.

 

[DarkEntity]

The LFS got a shipment of wasp fish in! So I bought the biggest one! Took it home yesterday and put in some feeder guppies.... GULP!! He chowed down! It was very skinny, like I mentioned in the previos post, but because this one was a little bigger, he was able to eat a small guppy. Now he is FAT and I know that it will be ok!
Ill take pics tomorrow, this one is a 1/4 the size of the other.

Pics of the tank and all the Wasp Fish