Teeth

[SirMinion]

Violet Gobies are filter feeders, so why has this one suddenly sprouted fearsome looking teeth?

I'd not noticed them before, and there's no sign of them on older photos.
Maybe it's a maturity thing?

My my, Grandma, what big teeth you have...

All the better to filter daphnia out of the water, my dear... no..that doesn't sound quite right...

 

[Earthgirl]

Sorry, that is one ugly looking mouth!
Serioulsy looking nasty fish, close up!

 

[Dwarfs]

Maybe he's aquired a taste for fish?

 

[Koda]

Wow...pretty sure mine doesn't have those.I was watching him feed just a day or so ago and he stretched his mouth into a big round O shape...no sign of teeth.But he's still small and probably pretty young.

Perhaps yours was just having a bit of Halloween fun

Koda

 

[lucky62]

CAN YOU SAY UGLY

He has lovely dentition

 

[lady_tanksalot]

ooooh that scares me

fish with teeth..... no not normal

 

[JDH]

Imagine waking up next to that in the morning.

 

[Clare]

Our Dragon Gobies are 14" long and we have eight of them, all toothless. That one of yours looks very scary, check the rest of the fish in his tank to see if he`s stolen someones falsies!!
Clare and Karl

 

[BichirKeeper]

Yea, those are teeth! My goby is around ten inches, with no teeth like that!

 

[Nix]

Dang, never seen one like that....

 

[SirMinion]

We did a bit of trawling on Google, and it seems that the teeth are normal.

Thank goodness for that!

 

[lucky62]

Have you tried flossing

 

[Koda]

CAN YOU SAY UGLY

He has lovely dentition

Awwww....but I love to see mine with his sulky lil face peeking out from hiding

I just know he's thinkin' "Where's my dang brine shrimp??...grumble.. snarl ...grumble...all I want is my fair share...dangit!!!"

Koda

 

[samthefishman]

I want one!

 

[CatLover]

All of those at my LFS have teeth. I was quite surprised when I discovered they were filter feeders.