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Curtain Goby

Chloropsetta occultans

Twilight6 cm · Hiding · quick

Filed in the field ledger, but not yet swimming in any water reachable today — real content, not a placeholder, waiting on its own unlock.

Field record

A flick of green-gold that is gone before the eye finishes registering it, back into a stand of sea-grass so dense the drone's lamp cannot find a way through unaided. Something with shears could.

Marginal note: “it nests where the grass grows thick”

Habitat

ZoneTwilight Zone

Depth range600–1,300 m

DiscoveryFiled in the field ledger, but not yet swimming in any water reachable today.

Catching it

A Twilight-tier catch needs at least a Fine Mesh Net— anything under that rating can never hold it, whatever the throw. Bought at the Quartermaster’s counter for 90 crystals. A held net inks this entry for good and pays its ledger bonus on the spot.

Ledger bonus on capture+5 Light Radius

Full capture mechanics — sighting vs. capture, the aim ring, why a net below a creature’s tier always bursts — in The Ledger.