Vietnamese Blenny

[Ropefish]

yesterday i got a freshwater fish called a Vietnamese blenny, i tried searching google but i can find anything about it...
can any of you guys help?

 

[CFC]

As with most members of the Salaria genus these are brackish fish that need salt in their water for their long term health. They are quite difficult to feed, the ones i had would only accept small live foods and they have large appetites and a fast metabolism so need to be fed every day and prefferably twice. I found that once they had grown to around 2 inches they became aggressive to each other and the largest of the 3 i had killed the smaller two, some time shortly after that the fish started to refuse food and eventually died.

 

[Ropefish]

ok then... should i ask my mom if she can acclimate it and put it in her brakish tank?

 

[CFC]

That depends on the salinity of your mums water and what species she already has stocked. From the very small ammount of information i was able to find on this fish it is felt that it is a low end brackish fish which appreciates the same kind of salinity as figure 8 puffers and bumblebee gobies (around 1.006 SG). They are also fairly small so wouldn't mix well with larger fish such as scats, mono's and shark cats.

 

[nmonks]

Slightly off topic, but the only "freshwater" blenny I've seen traded is Salaria fluviatilis. Keep this little guy in brackish and he won't be very pleased with you! It's a lovely fish, from mountain streams in Europe and Turkey, used to be quite common. But pollution has hit it hard and they're getting pretty scarce. Shame really. Seen one in a fish shop ONCE, would love to try them out some time.

I've never heard of the "Vietnamese blenny". I wonder what the fish is? Using Fishbase, I've narrowed it down to three species:

http/www.fishbase.org/identification/spe...=392&areacode=4

Any of these look familiar?

Cheers,

Neale

As with most members of the Salaria genus these are brackish fish that need salt in their water...

 

[CFC]

The ones i had were none of those fish, they were simply marked up as vietnamese blenny and when i questioned the shop manager he said that they were just labeled as Salaria sp. and the common name on the wholesalers list. They had been imported along with Batrachus grunniens and a Butis species (not Butis butis) so were almost certainly from an Asian origin.

I was never able to get a photograph of them as they were very shy and would hide as soon as i approached with the camera.

 

[Ropefish]

mine looks a lot of like the freshwater blenny but mine just doesnt have quite have the same pattern

 

[penguinpimp1990]

i know this is completly off topic but that isnt a ropefish in your signature is a bichir

 

[nmonks]

If you can get hold of Practical Fishkeeping for this month, there's a review of a "freshwater" blenny, called Omobranchus zebra. It grows to around 6 cm, comes from S E Asia, and requires mid to high salinity water (SG 1.010 upwards) since its range is from brackish to marine, not brackish to freshwater.

Cheers,

Neale

yesterday i got a freshwater fish called a Vietnamese blenny, i tried searching google but i can find anything about it...