What goby is this?

[Awibrandy]

I know it's a gobie, but what gobie is it? I just saw him peeking out of my rock work tonight, but I don't recognize it. I had bought a bunch of gobies 8 months ago, and they had mysteriously disapeared. I thought they had all died, until tonight. What ever gobie this is it changed appearance since I bought it. Can someone ID it please?

 

[crox99]

A blue spotted watchman?

 

[Deanos]

Cryptocentrus cinctus

Excerpt: Occurs in two color phases, one yellow and the other with whitish ground color; both forms with 4-5 dusky bars (although faint in yellow fish) and fine pale blue or white spotting on head and anterodorsal part of body and fins.

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[Awibrandy]

A blue spotted watchman?

Is that the same as the pink spotted watchman? I do have a pink spotted one, but he is much larger then this one.
Also, I don't recall buying a blue spotted one.:scratchch Really strange.:bigeyes:

 

[Awibrandy]

Cryptocentrus cinctus

Excerpt: Occurs in two color phases, one yellow and the other with whitish ground color; both forms with 4-5 dusky bars (although faint in yellow fish) and fine pale blue or white spotting on head and anterodorsal part of body and fins.

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Thank you Dean, that is him. I didn't recognize him because when I got him he was yellow.lol Tricky little b changed colors on me. Think I'll name him "Harry", my first named fish!LOL
[SIZE=-1] Cryptocentrus cinctus picture (Crcin_ua.jpg) by Winterbottom, R. , [/SIZE]

 

[crox99]

http://www.saltwaterfish.com/site_1...ategory=4&category_search=61&root_parent_id=4

 

[grknyer]

Hey Awilda, I feel so honored that you would name TWO gobies after me.LOL. The one I sold you back in July was a yellow watchman goby which you said you were going to name after me.:spin:

 

[Awibrandy]

It's the same gobie!lol He changed up on us.

 

[Aquatic Life Direct]

yea we had one come in our shipment. Was with the yellow watchman goby so I guess its the same... I knew I should've not sold him... not everyday that I see it that color...

 

[grknyer]

SORRY Awilda.. I hope you're not mad at me. It was yellow when I dropped him off. I had no idea it would do that.

 

[Awibrandy]

SORRY Awilda.. I hope you're not mad at me. It was yellow when I dropped him off. I had no idea it would do that.

:funnypostLOL,lol, Now why in the world would I be mad? I think it is awesome that he/she did that.. I was amazed to find this fish that I had never seen before. Can you just imagine what went through my mind when I saw it peeping out of the rocks.:biglaugh: I was like, what the heck, where did you come from? I started searching my memory trying to remember, had I bought a coral that it could have hidden in. "Nah", haven't bought any corals that big that it could possibly have hitched a ride on.:biglaugh:
Boy was I confused......:biglaugh::biglaugh:

 

[akma]

I purchased that same one from aquatics express last week.
Sorry dude. ><;;

 

[cnotes999]

I got one of those too...I bought a yellow watchman from saltwaterfish.com and then this guy showed up. At first I was a little ticked off cause I wanted a yellow fish but he grew on me after a while

 

[Awibrandy]

Been meaning to update this thread for a while now.

Harry went back to being his original yellow!:tub:

Apparently I have myself a chameleon watchman gobie.:tongue1:

 

[PurpleTang]

hahahha chameleon watchman gobie

 

[KathyC]

lol..a whole new species evolving in the Rockaways! He's cute A