Help! What am I?
 

Picture this...
http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/20...n_goby_3SM.jpg

I look like the Yellow Clown Goby, except I am white... I have black freckles (spots) on my face, 3 black horizontal stripes on each side my body (same 'look' as a 6 line wrasse), and more black freckles (spots) on my tail.

I am smaller than an inch.

What am I?

(unfortunately, variations of "Coral Goby black and white stripe dots" into google did not work.. your help appreciated)

ok that picture comes up as the reefcentral logo and the fish is a sohal tang :razz:

Your fish has the exact same shape as a clown goby??

I think I know exactly which one it is. Where did you get it? I want one!!

This the guy..?? Hes awesome. I want one now too.. :mrgreen:
Its a Whitelined Coral Goby. (Gobiodon albofasciatus)


http://homepage2.nifty.com/marinesno...to/goby098.jpg

thanks ryan< my computer is totally screwed
Thats the one i was thinking of and its the exact pic i was gonna post before my computer went "bzzt"

gobiodon albofasciatus

wow, amazing fish. where could a guy find one of those?

I've seen them at J&L once and I knew someone that got one from there on a previous occasion. I was tempted but I don't know if they're polyp munchers like their relatives so I took a pass on it. I wish I had gotten it though :neutral:

ohh they are polyp munchers ?
too bad they aren't common, I would really like one of them. Awesome body shape and color.

well they host in SPS corals and clear away a section of tissue to lay eggs on when breeding or whenever it suits them it seems. The last one I had with SPS didn't munch per se, but the polyps certainly weren't extended very far (probably for fear of being eaten :razz:) and when I removed the goby the polyps returned to normal.

hmm that's neat. also interesting.
maybe one will pop up some day

yes that's the one.

Thank you.. you are amazing!

- Ivy