Scooter Blenny
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islandcreation
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I saw mine eat brine shrimp but majority of the time he sifts through live sand... pretty easy to keep!
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Anonymous
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hmmmm..... glad your having luck with yours island - i've never owned one but have read they are almost as tough to keep alive in nanos as manderines, read the first post on this page for some hints on how to feed it:
http://www.wetwebmedia.com/wrasseselfaqs.htm
really cool looking fish though would be an awesome nano inhabitent if you can find the right sized food for it
http://www.wetwebmedia.com/wrasseselfaqs.htm
really cool looking fish though would be an awesome nano inhabitent if you can find the right sized food for it
islandcreation
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Johnanddawn... Yeah he is one of my fish that survived my heater dilemma :mrgreen: But he's in my 66 gallon tank so that makes a huge diffrence. 71raw, I'm sorry to mislead you! I started off with a nano but upgraded to a 66 gallon tank. I like the people here so I stay around learning and putting my two cents whenever I can....
71raw
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Nice link john! its koo islandcreation, i too have a 60g sw reeftank in my living room, and i have an 12g aquapod in my room, thats where im gona be keeping him in. im choosing the scooter cause i was told it was easyer to maintain, and i had a friend that had mandarin and it didnt do to well. and i will take your advice drty811. gona pick the scooter blenny up today after work. i will keep u guys posted and with pictures soon to come since i got my camera now =) thanks guys!
rescuediver19
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Mine died 2 weeks in :sad:
rescuediver19
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call him scooter, thats what mine was called
rescuediver19
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scooter II
rescuediver19
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jr.
I got one a few days ago because my LFS recommended it as a way to deal with my flatworms. Less than a day after I put him in, I saw him picking off flatworms. Very cool!
When people say that they are difficult to keep in a nano is it because they have a tough time getting them to eat? I tried feeding him some mysis shrimp and I noticed that sometimes he digests it and other times he chews it up and spits it out. He is totally fascinating to watch. he crawls around the live rock like a rodent.
When people say that they are difficult to keep in a nano is it because they have a tough time getting them to eat? I tried feeding him some mysis shrimp and I noticed that sometimes he digests it and other times he chews it up and spits it out. He is totally fascinating to watch. he crawls around the live rock like a rodent.
The Kapenta Kid
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I've got one--by mistake. It was sold to me as an A. yanoi, I didn't know any better, and it was Tabblet15 who pointed out to me that it was a Red Scooter. Otherwise having read about Dragonets I would not have bought one for a 15g Nano.
My experience is this (remember I thought it was an A. yanoi):
The first day it was introduced to the tank it ate heartily of frozen Marine Mix--mysis, shrimp, etc. Subsequently it quit eating and I tried all sorts of food including live blood worms and artemia, but it was not interested. It would approach the food, look at it, and turn away. It spent all its time crawling over the rockwork picking at it. I was surprised to see how small its mouth was and assumed that this might be a problem.
After three or four days things started to pick up. It was regularly raising and displaying its incredibly beautiful finnage (which my experience with FW fish tells me is usually a good sign). I observed it eating food particles that were lodged in the rock. I think it is now getting enough nourishment from foraging for pods and nibbling at introduced food. It appears active and 'happy'.
I hope this will continue, but I would not have taken the responsibility of buying it for my tank if I had known what it truly was. However, it is a superb little fish.
I call it the Mountaineer because of its constant rock climbing.
My experience is this (remember I thought it was an A. yanoi):
The first day it was introduced to the tank it ate heartily of frozen Marine Mix--mysis, shrimp, etc. Subsequently it quit eating and I tried all sorts of food including live blood worms and artemia, but it was not interested. It would approach the food, look at it, and turn away. It spent all its time crawling over the rockwork picking at it. I was surprised to see how small its mouth was and assumed that this might be a problem.
After three or four days things started to pick up. It was regularly raising and displaying its incredibly beautiful finnage (which my experience with FW fish tells me is usually a good sign). I observed it eating food particles that were lodged in the rock. I think it is now getting enough nourishment from foraging for pods and nibbling at introduced food. It appears active and 'happy'.
I hope this will continue, but I would not have taken the responsibility of buying it for my tank if I had known what it truly was. However, it is a superb little fish.
I call it the Mountaineer because of its constant rock climbing.