Does anyone have any experience with blue spotted mudskippers? I have had a mudskipper in the past but it was carnivorous. I've read that these kinds are vegetarians. They are said to be algae eaters. I'm trying to figure out what else I can feed them because my Pleco does a pretty good job at keeping the algae away. Also, I don't know if mudskippers are considered a fish or an amphibian. They look more like a fish but they spend 90% of their time out or the water, at least that what I read. I just got mine last night and they have yet to leave the water. They are probably just adjusting right now.

Here is a pic. of one of my blue spotted mudskippers
http://www.reptiforum.com/gallery/da...05_053-med.jpg

and here is a pic of whatever type of mudskipper I used to have.
http://www.reptiforum.com/gallery/da...512mud-med.JPG

dunno anything about care of these guys but I do know that they are fish. They have a labrynth (think how u spell it) that allows them to breathe air and water.

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I dunno if its cause he's underwater or what, but your blue-spotted looks a lot different than blue-spotteds (Boleophthalmus boddarti) I've seen. They're known as goggle-eyed gobies. Either way though, blue-spotted mudskippers do eat algae. You can buy algae wafers at the pet store, and I think some places might actually have commercial mudskipper food. They're territorial though, and they can bite too. They're from estuarine mudflats, so like fiddler crabs and figure-eight puffer fish, they actually do best with mildly salty water. They do love mud, hence their name, and will dig burrows in it. In the wild they come out of their burrows at low tide to feed. Oh yeah, and mudskippers are a fish.

Eh, I think it was just your camera angle. Comparing pics, I'd say yours looks like a blue-spotted afterall.

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Okay. I've read that these guys spend 90% of their time out of water, but mine don't seem to leave the bottom of the tank. I am beginning to wonder if they are having adjustment problems or if I have a different fish than I think I do.

Well you have a mudskipper of some sort, that much is for sure. I think its a blue-spotted though. From what I've seen, they're pretty common as pets (as far as mudskippers go anyway). Could be temperature, humidity, or substrate.

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