Dr. Richard Winterbottom, Kanada
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Trimmatom eviotops (Schultz, 1943)
Red-barred rubble goby
Special thanks for the photo of the Trimmatom eviotops to Dr. Richard Winterbottom, who was able to take the first photo of this pretty little dwarf goby on Palau, Urukthapel I.. As the goby has a fairly high distribution, it could well appear in the specialized trade.
The “Red-barred rubble goby” lives in reef crevices and crevices in which it quickly finds refuge in case of danger.
The goby mainly lives in a depth range of around 0-5 meters.
The dwarf goby feeds on the smallest zooplankton such as copepods.
Inhabits lagoons and on the 'reef top'
Synonyms:
Eviota corneliae Fricke, 1998 · unaccepted (synonym)
Trimatom eviotops (Schultz, 1943) · unaccepted (misspelling)
Trimma eviotops Schultz, 1943 · unaccepted
Trimmaton eviotops (Schultz, 1943) · unaccepted (misspelling)
The term "reef safe" is often used in marine aquaristics, especially when buying a new species people often ask if the new animal is "reef safe".
What exactly does reef safe mean?
To answer this question, you can ask target-oriented questions and inquire in forums, clubs, dealers and with aquarist friends:
- Are there already experiences and keeping reports that assure that the new animal can live in other suitably equipped aquariums without ever having caused problems?
- Is there any experience of invertebrates (crustaceans, hermits, mussels, snails) or corals being attacked by other inhabitants such as fish of the same or a different species?
- Is any information known or expected about a possible change in dietary habits, e.g., from a plant-based diet to a meat-based diet?
- Do the desired animals leave the reef structure "alone", do they constantly change it (boring starfish, digger gobies, parrotfish, triggerfish) and thus disturb or displace other co-inhabitants?
- do new animals tend to get diseases repeatedly and very quickly and can they be treated?
- Do known peaceful animals change their character in the course of their life and become aggressive?
- Can the death of a new animal possibly even lead to the death of the rest of the stock through poisoning (possible with some species of sea cucumbers)?
- Last but not least the keeper of the animals has to be included in the "reef safety", there are actively poisonous, passively poisonous animals, animals that have dangerous biting or stinging weapons, animals with extremely strong nettle poisons, these have to be (er)known and a plan of action should have been made in advance in case of an attack on the aquarist (e.g. telephone numbers of the poison control center, the treating doctor, the tropical institute etc.).
If all questions are evaluated positively in the sense of the animal(s) and the keeper, then one can assume a "reef safety".
Red-barred rubble goby
Special thanks for the photo of the Trimmatom eviotops to Dr. Richard Winterbottom, who was able to take the first photo of this pretty little dwarf goby on Palau, Urukthapel I.. As the goby has a fairly high distribution, it could well appear in the specialized trade.
The “Red-barred rubble goby” lives in reef crevices and crevices in which it quickly finds refuge in case of danger.
The goby mainly lives in a depth range of around 0-5 meters.
The dwarf goby feeds on the smallest zooplankton such as copepods.
Inhabits lagoons and on the 'reef top'
Synonyms:
Eviota corneliae Fricke, 1998 · unaccepted (synonym)
Trimatom eviotops (Schultz, 1943) · unaccepted (misspelling)
Trimma eviotops Schultz, 1943 · unaccepted
Trimmaton eviotops (Schultz, 1943) · unaccepted (misspelling)
The term "reef safe" is often used in marine aquaristics, especially when buying a new species people often ask if the new animal is "reef safe".
What exactly does reef safe mean?
To answer this question, you can ask target-oriented questions and inquire in forums, clubs, dealers and with aquarist friends:
- Are there already experiences and keeping reports that assure that the new animal can live in other suitably equipped aquariums without ever having caused problems?
- Is there any experience of invertebrates (crustaceans, hermits, mussels, snails) or corals being attacked by other inhabitants such as fish of the same or a different species?
- Is any information known or expected about a possible change in dietary habits, e.g., from a plant-based diet to a meat-based diet?
- Do the desired animals leave the reef structure "alone", do they constantly change it (boring starfish, digger gobies, parrotfish, triggerfish) and thus disturb or displace other co-inhabitants?
- do new animals tend to get diseases repeatedly and very quickly and can they be treated?
- Do known peaceful animals change their character in the course of their life and become aggressive?
- Can the death of a new animal possibly even lead to the death of the rest of the stock through poisoning (possible with some species of sea cucumbers)?
- Last but not least the keeper of the animals has to be included in the "reef safety", there are actively poisonous, passively poisonous animals, animals that have dangerous biting or stinging weapons, animals with extremely strong nettle poisons, these have to be (er)known and a plan of action should have been made in advance in case of an attack on the aquarist (e.g. telephone numbers of the poison control center, the treating doctor, the tropical institute etc.).
If all questions are evaluated positively in the sense of the animal(s) and the keeper, then one can assume a "reef safety".
