First Look: Purple Spotted Gudgeon

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Ahhh the Purple Spotted Gudgeon, one of my favorite fish! I love these guys because of their unique appearance and incredible personality. Let me give you everything you need to know about this Purple Spotted Gudgeon in this video.... But watch out! Because these fish are jumpers!

[@LongIslandFishGuy]

The Purple Spotted Gudgeon is pretty uncommon here on Long Island. Have you ever owned one of these before? If you have, what was your experience? If you haven't, have you ever even seen one before?

[@JeremyGoneWildPets]

Hey thanks for the shout out man. That’s a really cool looking fish. Such unique fins. Awesome.

[@FKJ_WORLD]

hey this is really a really awesome fish brother. really super kool

[@absolutelyunepic3072]

Amazing aquarium fish. Beautiful, personable, hardy, peaceful Pretty much ticks all the boxes. They are not very agressive at all. Think angelfish level of "agression" Now what they ARE is gluttonous predators that will hunt down anything they can fit (even partially) into their mouths. Ive caught one of mine choking on a young strawberry leporinus that was about half his size. Something odd i have noticed is that this predotory nature definitely variable by individual and has specific triggers. I have mine now in a 75gal with cories and empire gudgeons that he could definitely at least get a hold of, but their bottom feeder/slow swimming/seclusive behavior has them never really catch his attention. I think the are especially triggered by fast moving panicking open water fish, typically ones just being added to the tank. Generally fish that instantly hide in cover after being added are ignored, but open water fish that aren't comfortable with hiding like tetras and danios and stuff are seen as food. This of course is no issue if you just stock comparibly sized fish and fish with deep bodies, which is not hard as these guys get 5 inches max. Now for personality, these are extremely friendly fish to the keeper, they can be touched more than most outher fish and i can even scoop mine out of the water with my hand when feeding. If he gets tired of it he'll just flop back into the water, but ive held him out of the water for multiple seconds before he wants to go back in. The would prefer a 55-75 gallon tank, but a 40 breeder could work. Also one last health note is that they can be succeptible to bloating like bettas and some gouramis. In my experience at least and thats what they tend to end up dying of. The one I have is naturally skinny and never holds a big belly for long, so he is much better.

[@messenger2267]

Very cool! That thing looks sweet! Thanks for sharing!

[@LongIslandFishGuy]

Messenger 22 Purple Spotted Gudgeons are VERY cool.... Thanks for watching 😊

[@charlottepeterson997]

I just bought one as I thought he was unique and a good addition to my 65 gallon tank. I love watching him and I can't wait for him to get more comfortable and seek me out. Still need to learn more about him, but he's doing well. Thanks for the info on yours.

[@LongIslandFishGuy]

Charlotte Peterson That’s great! It’s an incredible fish! I hope you enjoy it!

[@CoffeeTimeBrian11]

This fish is beautiful. Reminds me of a peacock grudgeon with a large mouth.

[@dekbay8930]

Just got a free fish tank off a friend full of convict cichlids and seen this guy in there holding his own. wow

[@AquariumCop]

GORGEOUS!✌💕

[@LongIslandFishGuy]

AquariumCop Thank you! He’s a STUD!

[@philthytanks4952]

Awesome Gudgeon! We just got a baby one in at my work

[@LongIslandFishGuy]

Philthy Tanks What store is this? 👀

[@aquaballs]

Nice channel new subscriber here I love this fish

[@marclal5019]

OMG I'm in love with peacock gudgeons, but his cousin is so gorgeous. Please, tell me how did you get that fish!?!? I'm in Montreal and I haven't seen this fish anywhere!!

[@OnefishTwofishROC]

What a gorgeous fish - great colors and markings. today I learned....about the purple spotted gudgeon! Great video - what is the substrate in his tank? It looks great! Thanks for the show and tell!

[@LongIslandFishGuy]

OnefishTwofishROC Thank you! The substrate is just regular white sand. Glad you enjoyed it, it’s a great fish!

[@johndoyle5983]

Just pulled two of these guys out of a creek on my property in far north Queensland in Australia. I had no idea they were in our creek. Pretty cool find.

[@LongIslandFishGuy]

That’s awesome!

[@onojRX3]

Im in australia, I caught an awesome looking purple spotted gudgeon in a fish trap at a local creek, put a piece of clear apolic in my tank to separate it from my coal grunter I had at the time, woke up in the morning and it had jumped over the apolic into the coal grunters side, he died, I was so pissed

[@LongIslandFishGuy]

jono That’s very cool that you were able to catch one! They’re very uncommon here in the US. I didn’t know what a Coal Grunter was until now 😂

[@IH8COMERCIALRNB]

@@LongIslandFishGuy In Australia we have lots of grunter and perch species; most of them are pretty aggressive.

[@BamAquatics]

He is a really cool looking fish. Killifish are mad jumpers too. I have even lost a swordtail that jumped to his death. It’s not a good sign when your fish jump to their death rather than stay with you. Lol.

[@LongIslandFishGuy]

BamAquatics I completely agree! 😂

[@RaulsAquaticsandReptiles]

Just subscribed. Dope fish 🔥

[@LongIslandFishGuy]

Raul’s Aquatics and Reptiles Thank you! And I absolutely LOVE Purple Spotted Gudgeons 😍

[@ZanfishYT]

I’m in Florida and I managed to catch one while fishing at a pond. He’s quite the beauty.

[@LongIslandFishGuy]

Zanfish Florida?!? Are you sure it’s this fish?

[@MaxPleaseBeAGoodBoi]

@@LongIslandFishGuy we definitely have fresh & brackish gobies, just don't know if you caught a "purple/yellow one

[@absolutelyunepic3072]

That's probably a fat sleeper goby. This family of gobies often has marine larvae so there are species everywhere

[@seedntool8636]

Please tell me the different of male and female

[@brycetebeck3295]

I keep an Aussie version, Mogurnda larapintae, beauty of a fish

[@LongIslandFishGuy]

Those are pretty cool!

[@JohnDonion00]

Hey I live on Long Island but I’ve never been able to find one, do you know where I can get one

[@LongIslandFishGuy]

John Donohue Good luck! I’ve only seen 1 on Long Island and it was in a Petco! 😂

[@chAKI.Newt.Frog.Shrimp]

GOOD👍👏😄

[@kellygreen1431]

In my experience with these guys i have found them to have variable aggression. Keeping them with plenty of fast moving targets will lessen their aggresion toward their slower tankmates,, however I have seen specimens with the attitude of a red devil or jaguar cichlid, not even accepting a former mate

[@LongIslandFishGuy]

Kelly Green That’s pretty crazy! I’m very surprised to hear that!

[@martingibbins6621]

Just caught one about 8 inches. Put him in with my snakehead gudgeon and baby barra.

[@LongIslandFishGuy]

Martin Gibbins Assuming you’re from Australia? Send me some of them! 😂

[@AuthorABrou]

So this fish was sold to me as a peacock Gungeon..for my 20g micro schooling tank. Needless to say i have no fish left in my tank after 6 months. Ive had peackocks before and knew something was up with this fish.

[@LongIslandFishGuy]

Ariel Allen That’s unfortunate about the other fish but pretty cool that you got a Purple Spotted Gudgeon from it! Great, rare fish!

[@IH8COMERCIALRNB]

hhahaha o God.. in fairness it's a big worth 5 times as much ; but it will eat anything nano so not a great pal for whatever the peacock gudgeons were going in with.

[@NYGOLD]

Great fish and great channel!!!! Sub number 294 checking in. I can't wait to look around.

[@LongIslandFishGuy]

NYGOLD Sick! Welcome to the family! 🤙🏼

[@PlayWithYourThumb]

I've literally had hundreds of these fish over the years, their my favourite. If they have plenty of cover and can see peaceful fish swimming overhead they are generally non aggressive (except at breeding time). However there is the very rare one that is super aggressive. I've had a couple that attacked and killed Corys and even much bigger Purple Spotted Gudgeons.

[@LongIslandFishGuy]

Peter Tiddy Love that! I desperately need another one! I haven’t had one in awhile and really love this fish!

[@PlayWithYourThumb]

@@LongIslandFishGuy I don't know how available they are in America, but when I lived in Queensland they could be caught in the wild, along with Rainbows and Blue Eyes. :)

[@LongIslandFishGuy]

Peter Tiddy I’ve heard that! Unfortunately they’re pretty uncommon here in the US 😓

[@absolutelyunepic3072]

They are extremely variable in personality in my experience

[@IH8COMERCIALRNB]

It's not aggressive in the sense that it sets up territory in the tank and fights. It's aggressive in the sense that it will swallow fish 3/4's of it's size. Dwarf cichlids for example would be a bad choice of tank mate, apart from fish as big as large kribensis because it will attack and kill them; and then it will eat them. Males will kill each other, and when breeding it will set up a nest in wood and guard it like a cichlid would. The reason it works in your tank is the cichlids are bigger than it. If it has to, it will defend itself.

[@toesy7902]

Yo you think I could put with some angelfish

[@LongIslandFishGuy]

Adumb Yes, you shouldn’t have an issue with that!

[@mattmills7672]

Mine is an asshole. Still super cool

[@LongIslandFishGuy]

They can be sometimes 😅