Blenny Addicts please enter! (ID Anyone?)

[Aloha Corals]

Blenny Addicts please enter! (ID confirmed: Cirripectes stigmaticus)

[edit - ID confirmed: Cirripectes stigmaticus]


Aloha,

We received a fish in our Marshall Islands shipment today that i immediately snatched up for my personal tank. We've never seen anything like this come in from Marshalls before.

It's mouth structure is very similar to out local endemic Istiblennius zebra which leads me to believe it too is an algae eater.

Here are the pics i got during acclimation. Hope to get more tomorrow at a better angle.

Thanks!
Kevin

 

[redhanded]

I dunno man, but if you ever get another, I will for sure pick one up!

 

[H2O]

OMG I want a pair of those pm sent

 

[reefingsaw]

Wow nice fish never seen it before

 

[VelasCorals]

Omg that fish is amazing! I hope someone can I'd it. Can you get some pics from the side?

 

[_Alex_]

that is a beautiful fish!!!!

 

[MattinIdaho]

That is FANTASTIC!!

 

[ToXIc]

Wow is all I can say!!!!!

Subscribed.

 

[Saltgator]

I'll take a pair or a single one too.

 

[Reef lvr]

Deff looks like a blenny!! I want one!!

 

[Tabasco1]

Gorgeous!! Would love to see profile pics!! Would be sweet if those started to come in regularly.

Thanks for sharing!

 

[nivram]

Beautiful specimen. It reminds me of the orange or red spotted blenny.

 

[goldenboy]

Woot!!! found it Sea Dwelling Creatures shows off stigmata blenny and personifer angelfish

some kind of stigmata blenny (Cirripectes stigmaticu) congrats on your find its says they find them on Vanuatu.

From Rich

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

Dude that blenny is awesome with a capital A!

 

[WrasseSandwich]

Really nice fish

 

[gradth]

Ember blenny im pretty sure. They actually change colors. I had one for a short while but lost it unfortunately.

 

[secretreefer]

stigmata blenny fo sho. that's a really really nice find brutha!

 

[Aloha Corals]

Thank you everyone! Cirripectes stigmaticus it is.

Now that i know it by name i can request them from our supplier. Still only 9am here so my lights haven't come on yet. I'll update the thread with some better pics later.

Kevin

 

[pac_island_aquatics]

LOL. At first when i unpacked it, i thought oh crap, another random fish... i went back to it because the sun caught the head. I picked it up and immediately called kevin over. We both looked at it for 5 minutes in awe.. the colors are so awesomely random... lol Wait for a side picture... the colors are so cool.

I will ask my exporter to see if they can get more, but this is the first one i have ever gotten!

 

[Flake]

I had one for a short while. Apparently they don't eat very well.