I can't believe I haven't heard of these fish before, they seem really cool and might even be easy to care for? I sometimes feel like all the cool saltwater fish are too difficult to meet the needs of - usually because they're too big or too delicate - but these are really small when full grown. I read you can keep them in a 10g minimum. Anyone have anymore information on them?

Is it Diademichthys lineatus you're referring to?

Oh I've seen these for sale before! Cool little fish. I think they're in the goby family which I actually wouldn't have guessed just by looking at them.

nea7 wrote:What do you think their care level is - easy?

Well I first saw them on Live Aquaria where I think they're listed as "easy". I would say maybe a moderate care level, however. The difficult part is just with feeding. I don't know if all are picky but I've definitely heard of picky ones before that wouldn't eat anything that people tried them with.

I don't have any experience with them btw - this is just stuff I've read before about them. And as I said, maybe not all of them are really difficult to get to eat but it's good to at least know that feeding may be an issue before buying one!

nea7 wrote:Oh that's a little disappointing, I was hoping they'd be easy to keep. It's good to know that ahead of time though, if I do decide to get one. I'll research what kinds of foods are best to try them on from the onset.

Do you know if you can keep 2 or more in the same tank? I'm just wondering if they're territorial towards each other.

Yes it is I heard that those with urchins might have better success with their clingfish but I don't know the specifics of it.

I'm sorry, I don't know whether they're territorial or not. Most gobies are, aren't they? But I think their territorialness (is that a word lol) tends to be towards guarding whatever they claim as their little 'home'. So for a clingfish this might be a particular coral or corner of the tank etc that they choose to 'cling' to and they would chase others away from their spot.