Cannot Identify this fish

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  1. fazool666

    fazool666 Sea Dragon

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    Hi,

    My girlfriend was at the LFS a few weeks ago getting me supplies while I was away and fell in love with a fish and wound up purchasing and placing in my tank :( Anyway, it seems to be a pretty cool fish, about 2 1/2"L all bright yellow with a small blue dot on its head. It resembles a midas and or canary blenny but definitely is not one of them. It seems to move with a whipping tail more like an engineer goby and swims in small strides. It seems to be reef safe as it hasn't picked at any of my corals and eats most food I offer. It does hide out behind live rock sometimes and others it swimming around searching for food in a stop and go motion while staring at the substrate. It definitely is a cool fish to watch but I cannot find ANY information on what this little guy is??? I have searched everywhere and have yet to see anything like this fish - wish I had a picture but I cannot get a decent one because the pics don't do any justice - Please help!!
     
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  3. fazool666

    fazool666 Sea Dragon

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    Oh yea according to my girlfriend the pet store called it a yellow goby - what an original name!!!!
     
  4. R34dawn

    R34dawn Ocellaris Clown

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    need a pic to identified
     
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  6. fazool666

    fazool666 Sea Dragon

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    All the pics I have tried to take make it look like a canary blenny even though I know its not - my camera sucks! I can try to upload but I was hoping by the description I gave someone may have seen what I have somewhere.
     
  7. geekdafied

    geekdafied 3reef Sponsor

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    could be some type of tilefish.
     
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  10. fazool666

    fazool666 Sea Dragon

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    I'm trying to upload some pics I just took and cannot seem to get them to work - give me a few minutes to figure this out
     
  11. geekdafied

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    The one in the pic is a yellow assessor.
     
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