🐠 Yellowline Goby (Elacatinus figaro)
Marine Reef-Safe Nano Cleaner Goby • Sleek Black Body With Bold Yellow Horizontal Stripes & Opaque Blue Pectoral Fins • Genuinely a Captive-Bred-Only Species • Beginner-Friendly Marine Fish
 
📋 We want to be genuinely upfront: this species is genuinely endemic to the coastal waters of Brazil, where export is genuinely illegal, making captive-bred specimens the only ethical and legal choice available to hobbyists today.
 
📋 The Yellowline Goby, also known as the Barber Goby or Gold Neon Goby, has a genuinely sleek, dark-to-black body with bold yellow horizontal stripes running from head to tail and opaque blue pectoral fins, closely resembling the classic Neon Cleaner Goby but with yellow rather than blue lines.
Native exclusively to Brazil, this species genuinely functions as a real cleaner fish in the wild, picking parasites and dead scales off larger fish at dedicated cleaning stations.
We want to share a genuinely interesting fact: this species is genuinely capable of hybridising with the Neon Goby, producing a documented Hybrid Cleaner Goby. This is a genuinely peaceful, hardy species that continues its natural cleaning behaviour in the aquarium, generally welcomed by larger fish, though it can genuinely become territorial toward its own kind unless kept as a confirmed mated pair. It's fully reef safe, and genuinely well suited to nano and pico reef setups given its small adult size.
 
⚫🟡 Highlights
🎨 Black Body With Bold Yellow Stripes: A genuinely striking, iconic cleaner goby
🌎 Genuinely Captive-Bred Only: Brazilian export is illegal, so captive-bred is the sole ethical source
🧹 Genuine Natural Cleaner Behaviour: Picks parasites off larger fish, even in the aquarium
🌿 Fully Reef Safe: Won't harm corals or invertebrates
🧬 Genuine Documented Hybridisation: Can hybridise with the Neon Goby