The Kapenta Kid
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This pair don't often interact, but I caught them here in close proximity.
Goby and Dragonet
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What kind of dragonet is that? I just bought a mandarin two weeks ago, but he died on day 3. I keep buying live stock from my LFS even though I keep vowing not to. I've got about a 70% die off rate from him and 100% survival from my other LFS's. They're just so far away and I keep hoping things will work out. Maybe I'll learn my lesson someday.
Are these guys in your 55 gallon?
Are these guys in your 55 gallon?
The Kapenta Kid
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It's a Red Scooter Blenny (so-called, it ain't a blenny at all) Synchropirus ocellatus I think is the scientific name.
Like all dragonets they are picky eaters and prefer pods etc found on Live Rock. However, they are much easier to convert to substitute live foods like BBS and bloodworms and eventually to frozen foods than are Mandarins. From all I read the latter usually starve to death sooner or later after purchase, so I am not surprised that you lost yours.
This guy will eat anything now, apart from flake.
The red scooter has an incredibly beautiful dorsal fin that looks like a decorated Japanese kite or lantern when extended, but I have not yet been able to catch him on camera while he is displaying it.
These guys are in my 15 gal Nano, but the sandsifter goby will eventually go over to the 55 since he is getting kinda big.
Like all dragonets they are picky eaters and prefer pods etc found on Live Rock. However, they are much easier to convert to substitute live foods like BBS and bloodworms and eventually to frozen foods than are Mandarins. From all I read the latter usually starve to death sooner or later after purchase, so I am not surprised that you lost yours.
This guy will eat anything now, apart from flake.
The red scooter has an incredibly beautiful dorsal fin that looks like a decorated Japanese kite or lantern when extended, but I have not yet been able to catch him on camera while he is displaying it.
These guys are in my 15 gal Nano, but the sandsifter goby will eventually go over to the 55 since he is getting kinda big.
The Kapenta Kid
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I just killed the poor little bugger.
I was picking rocks out of the tank and giving them a swirl in a bucket of tank water to remove loose detritius.
Half an hour later I saw his corpse on the carpet. He must have been hanging onto a rock, they are perfectly camouflaged, and he must have leapt when the rock left the tank.
I tell you I wept a salt tear for the little guy :cry:
I'll know better next time, but too late for him.
I was picking rocks out of the tank and giving them a swirl in a bucket of tank water to remove loose detritius.
Half an hour later I saw his corpse on the carpet. He must have been hanging onto a rock, they are perfectly camouflaged, and he must have leapt when the rock left the tank.
I tell you I wept a salt tear for the little guy :cry:
I'll know better next time, but too late for him.