Which dottyback is the most popular? A survey

ichthyogeek · Nov 2, 2020

I recently heard that dottybacks are good for adding "breeding hormones" into the water to help induce other fish to spawn. And one of my potential fish spaces just opened up after losing my last Amblyeleotris randalli. While I'm conflicted about switching to dottybacks from gobies, it's still something I'm thinking about. So I'm doing a little bit of market research to see which of four species is the most popular for people to buy, so I can narrow down which fish would be the best to pursue. I like all 4 species listed (but granted I'm biased towards P. elongatus).

Joem820 · Nov 2, 2020

As someone who has both a neon and a splendid in a 125 gallon, I prefer the neon for the bolder colors though he was a little more aggressive for a few hours until my tangs and angelfish showed him who was boss (i.e., not him).

ichthyogeek · Nov 4, 2020

flampton · Nov 4, 2020

Interested in the elongated too. Hopefully some will comment on their aggressiveness.

ScubaFish802 · Nov 4, 2020

The Blue Striped (Springeri) are my pick based solely off of looks

Waynerock · Nov 4, 2020

I have had my orchid the longest of all my fish (5 years). Wife picked her out. Total a hole to any other fish that was shaped like her. Almost impossible to remove without taking out the rock and even then they will stuff themselves inside a hole and stay there even if the rock is out of the water. I hated her for ever for being mean. Even when I changed tanks I was stoked to finally remove her that's when I learned about the hole in the rock trick. I thought she was lost but nope just hid and I swear that rock was out of the water for 30 plus min while I was changing tanks and had all of my live rock and corals out of the old one. Then I got two black misbar clowns and they are even meaner and I was hoping that all 3 would fight to the death rumble style but no, the clowns only mess with every other fish and don't touch the orchid. That being said the orchid does not mess with anyone really anymore ( ask my fire fish) but those #$$%^&%# clowns I wanna harpoon right out of my tank! if you have a whiter lit tank you can not beat the color the orchid provides, almost a black light purple. Super pretty but ornery as a country Papaw without his shine!

ichthyogeek · Nov 5, 2020

Welp...it looks like ORA is having a sale on livaquaria, and there's a pretty big difference between the orchids and the other fish....and I do have all of that extra credit....