Can someone identify this fish species?

Combat squirrel · 12 Mar 2011 at 17:30

As title, iv had this little fella in my fish tank for a couple years now, but iv no idea what he is, hes like an evolutionary maybe

, he has stumpy little fins that he doesnt really swim with but propels himself, he is almost the 1st step from being a fish to a land animal if that makes sense, any ideas what species?:

Arcimbaldo · 12 Mar 2011 at 17:52

Perhaps he is part evolved into an Axoltl?
I have no idea if that can happen and i may be talking rubbish but the axoltl looks fairly similar to that but with tiny webbed feet there are pictures on google

Will Gill · 12 Mar 2011 at 17:53

almost looks like a newt!

weird

boxman2000 · 12 Mar 2011 at 18:01

Looks like some kind of goby

boxman2000 · 12 Mar 2011 at 18:13

Erm, not an axolotl or a newt. It's definitely a fish

boxman2000 · 12 Mar 2011 at 18:19

Looks like this species

Murray · 12 Mar 2011 at 18:20

Newoltlish

Ergates · 12 Mar 2011 at 18:33

You sure that's a fish?

Looks more like a hamster to me.

Deadbeat · 12 Mar 2011 at 18:48

Whale sperm

Davies_M · 12 Mar 2011 at 18:48

That's no fish...
it's a space station!

Lightnix · 12 Mar 2011 at 18:57

You should video it walking, put silly music in the background and upload to youtube.

hux · 12 Mar 2011 at 19:08

Woden · 12 Mar 2011 at 19:10

It doesn't look battered, so it must be a burnt breaded?

Grandmaster Fap! · 12 Mar 2011 at 19:11

Fishius Likeasnakeius...quite rare *adjusts monocle*

Gaijin · 12 Mar 2011 at 21:08

Could possibly be a loach.

http://www.google.co.uk/images?q=loach&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1280&bih=699

My mate had a loach called Lotch. He had buckets of character and was awesome.

Malt_Vinegar · 12 Mar 2011 at 21:20

Does look goby-ish, what sort of tank is it?

Combat squirrel · 13 Mar 2011 at 02:02

Gaijin said:
Could possibly be a loach.

http://www.google.co.uk/images?q=loach&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1280&bih=699

My mate had a loach called Lotch. He had buckets of character and was awesome.

Yeh he's got epic character, everyone loves him, iv got some loaches also but there just bullies

, im thinking goby-ish then but I cant think for the life of me what exact species hes just so, unique, ill try film him doing his generally awesome day to day thang.

Monkeh · 13 Mar 2011 at 08:49

He's a goby of the Stiphodon genus, not sure of the exact one but would probably guess a male Stiphodon imperiorientis looking at your pictures. If you google image the genus name you'll probably have more luck now and find an exact match.

Lagmeister · 13 Mar 2011 at 10:24

Yes looks like some form of goby would probably go with something like Monkeh says though, we see them out here living with shrimps as a sort of guard dog, super hard to photograph them though

BAppleton · 15 Mar 2011 at 01:31

its Jaws!