Dr. Mark V. Erdmann (Conservation International Advertisement), Indonesien
Info
Fricke & Erdmann, 2016
Distribution:
The new species is known only from the type locality at Ataúro Island, Timor-Leste, in the Ombai Strait between the islands of Timor and Wetar.
It was collected on a shallow coral reef at 3 meter depth.
Color:
Head and body pale greenish, translucent; vertebral column visible through body, dark red with two white blotches. Male with four dorsal short, brown, vertical bars covered with fine
melanophores; female with about nine such bars, some double. A series of brown blotches along sides of body below lateral line, interspersed with 6–7 pale whitish to bright-yellow spots. Lower sides of head, cheeks, and pectoral-fin base in male black, in female with a series of three brown blotches. Dorsal parts of head and eyes bright blue with reddish brown lines. First and second dorsal fins in females translucent, spines reddish; in males a small dark blotch at base of each spine, fin membranes covered with fine melanophores. Third dorsal fin translucent in
female, membranes covered with fine melanophores in male. Anal fin red in male, translucent with six oblique reddish brown bars in female. Pelvic fin silvery white in female, black in male. Pectoral fin translucent, basal parts of central rays silvery white. Caudal fin translucent, central fin rays reddish brown, central parts of fin in male covered with fine melanophores.
Source: http://www.oceansciencefoundation.org/josf/josf26b.pdf
Authors: Mark V. Erdmann & Ronald Fricke
Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Blennioidei (Suborder) > Tripterygiidae (Family) > Tripterygiinae (Subfamily) > Helcogramma (Genus) > Helcogramma maldivensis (Species)
Jumping guard
A jumping guard prevents (nocturnal) fish from jumping out.
Wrasses, blennies, hawkfishs and gobies jump out of an unprotected tank in fright if their night rest is disturbed, unfortunately these jumpers are found dried up in the morning on carpets, glass edges or later behind the tank.
https://www.korallenriff.de/en/article/1925_5_Jump_Protection_Solutions_for_Fish_in_the_Aquarium__5_Net_Covers.html
A small night light also helps, as it provides the fish with a means of orientation in the dark!
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".
Distribution:
The new species is known only from the type locality at Ataúro Island, Timor-Leste, in the Ombai Strait between the islands of Timor and Wetar.
It was collected on a shallow coral reef at 3 meter depth.
Color:
Head and body pale greenish, translucent; vertebral column visible through body, dark red with two white blotches. Male with four dorsal short, brown, vertical bars covered with fine
melanophores; female with about nine such bars, some double. A series of brown blotches along sides of body below lateral line, interspersed with 6–7 pale whitish to bright-yellow spots. Lower sides of head, cheeks, and pectoral-fin base in male black, in female with a series of three brown blotches. Dorsal parts of head and eyes bright blue with reddish brown lines. First and second dorsal fins in females translucent, spines reddish; in males a small dark blotch at base of each spine, fin membranes covered with fine melanophores. Third dorsal fin translucent in
female, membranes covered with fine melanophores in male. Anal fin red in male, translucent with six oblique reddish brown bars in female. Pelvic fin silvery white in female, black in male. Pectoral fin translucent, basal parts of central rays silvery white. Caudal fin translucent, central fin rays reddish brown, central parts of fin in male covered with fine melanophores.
Source: http://www.oceansciencefoundation.org/josf/josf26b.pdf
Authors: Mark V. Erdmann & Ronald Fricke
Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Blennioidei (Suborder) > Tripterygiidae (Family) > Tripterygiinae (Subfamily) > Helcogramma (Genus) > Helcogramma maldivensis (Species)
Jumping guard
A jumping guard prevents (nocturnal) fish from jumping out.
Wrasses, blennies, hawkfishs and gobies jump out of an unprotected tank in fright if their night rest is disturbed, unfortunately these jumpers are found dried up in the morning on carpets, glass edges or later behind the tank.
https://www.korallenriff.de/en/article/1925_5_Jump_Protection_Solutions_for_Fish_in_the_Aquarium__5_Net_Covers.html
A small night light also helps, as it provides the fish with a means of orientation in the dark!
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".
