Joshua and Ashley
I love the Tonaka Pygmy Wrasse. When I saw one in a LFS it was quite shy. Does yours come out into the open very much? How long have you had it?They are so striking looking, definitely on my list of "well. maybe I can get one more fish..."
My nominee for the top ten nano fish is the barnacle blenny, Acanthemlemaria macrospilus. This is based upon its uniqueness and exquisite suitability for a nano tank. Give him a snail shell and you have given him the world. How can you be more nano than that in terms of the space it occupies 99.5% of the time?
The other 0.5% of the time is spent "foraging for food". This guy wastes no time in that endeavor and is hands down the speed king of the nano world. The attached previously posted video backs up that claim. It also unintentionally includes what would be my second nomination, which, in my desire to scrupulously follow the guidelines of this thread, shall be left nameless in this post
("psst-read the video credits.")
[video]http://vid29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/FishportNH/BlennyontheMove_zps591be39a.mp4[/video]
A very docile and hardy fish. There is no problem with having more than one in a tank. If you look closely in the photo, you can see what ichthyologists refer to as little knobs on its head. It would be fascinating to learn what they are for. I recklesssly speculate that it is either a nerdy cool fashion statement or a sensory organ responsible for its ability to disciminate food from other matter in the water current from a good distance. When some Hatchery Diet pellets (unpaid product placement) hit the water, his head starts to nod side to side as if in tracking mode, or maybe just an expression of orgasmic delight!
They hale from the southern part of the Gulf of California to Acapulco. To my limited knowledge, not too many other species in our tanks come from that region. But that geography leads me to believe he is the marine embodiment of the mid twentieth centry Warner Brothers cartoon star- "Speedy Gonzalez" (You kids don't know what you missed out on when tv was free, fuzzy, and in black and white, yet naively edgy in its political incorrectness).
