Third picture, I was told he was native to the bay. Has been less then 2" for the last year and I don’t think he’s grown, but I am not sure how much he gets to eat because of my purple tang.
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Any ideas? He’s benthic, spends all his time at the bottom. Some sort of goby?
Its a gobie but i dont think its native to the bay. I just looked at all the species that are native to both the Delaware and Chesapeake bays and it dosent look even close to anything. Where did you get it?
A friend of mine used to work for a pet shop in Rehoboth that is now closed. There were several people that could collect local things and bring them into the store, so I didn’t doubt for a second they were local. I had spend some time looking through the local species as well and didn’t find much, but figured there were a lot of people on this board that fish, so I would try my luck. I have three species of hermit, two species of snail, and never any that I know of.
It kinda looks like a sculpin. Hard to tell with just one pic.
Will see if I have more images. Hard to get snap shots as he is a cryptic little guy that doesn’t come out much.
Hope its not a northern stargazer…I had one once ,caught from the bay up in Long Island…It ate every small fish that swam by it…looked kinda like what u got there…
Seems similar to some sculpin, which is a common name for a good number of species in several genus, didn’t find any images that looked like a dead match. Doesn’t really look like a stargazer though could be a very small juvenile whose growth is stunted by my hungry tang.