bicolor blenny
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coral keeper
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He looks very cute! I use to have 1 but it died 3 weeks ago (have no idea why it died) im so sad.
I will probably get a nother one and put it in my 8 gallon bio cube.
1journeyman
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Good fish, love to poke out of your live rock. They'll find holes you never knew were there.
They can be aggressive so add to an established tank.
They can be aggressive so add to an established tank.
jerthunter
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I have one and he is amazing, he sleeps in a hole in my rock but durning the day he swims around trying to scrape algae off the aquarium walls.
shrimpi
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now Im wondering if I could get one...
Here is my tank spec.
44g (tall) corner unit.
Lots of coral/LR and a 4-5" sandbed
Fishes
orange spot goby(sandsifter)
blue/green mandarin(eating frozen)
fuzzy dwarf lion (eating frozen)
Inverts
cleaner crew- hermies, snails
cleaner shrimp, pepp. shrimp, blood shrimp.
banded star
pompom crab (hes in the witness protection program and never comes out)
Im thinking that it might be ok if the blenny stays on the rocks/little caverns because my goby wont hang out anywhere but HIS sandbed.
The goby has never been aggressive towards the mandarin- meaning he has never bit him or anything. but from time to time he will open his mouth really wide kinda like he is bearing his fangs to the mandarin... but he never does anything. The mandarin is a princess of the reef and isnt afraid of anything, including my hand, the seasquirt etc.
yea? or nay on the blenny?
PS we are moving in a little over a year and going BIG. Im hoping for a good couple hundred gal.
nonetheless, I want to provide a safe environment where all critters can be happy and not intimidated.
thanks
Jessica / Shrimpi
Here is my tank spec.
44g (tall) corner unit.
Lots of coral/LR and a 4-5" sandbed
Fishes
orange spot goby(sandsifter)
blue/green mandarin(eating frozen)
fuzzy dwarf lion (eating frozen)
Inverts
cleaner crew- hermies, snails
cleaner shrimp, pepp. shrimp, blood shrimp.
banded star
pompom crab (hes in the witness protection program and never comes out)
Im thinking that it might be ok if the blenny stays on the rocks/little caverns because my goby wont hang out anywhere but HIS sandbed.
The goby has never been aggressive towards the mandarin- meaning he has never bit him or anything. but from time to time he will open his mouth really wide kinda like he is bearing his fangs to the mandarin... but he never does anything. The mandarin is a princess of the reef and isnt afraid of anything, including my hand, the seasquirt etc.
yea? or nay on the blenny?
PS we are moving in a little over a year and going BIG. Im hoping for a good couple hundred gal.
nonetheless, I want to provide a safe environment where all critters can be happy and not intimidated.
thanks
Jessica / Shrimpi
jerthunter
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The only problem I could see is your dwarf lion but if he is safe with your other fish I doubt he'd try to eat the bicolor blenny.
shrimpi
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Originally Posted by puffer32
My jawfish opens his mouth wide when any fish swims to close, but is actually a big chicken and retreats into his hole after he opens his mouth, no one in the tank is the least bit scared of him, and he knows it.
thats what mine does too! lol
Yeah, I just got the new fuzzy lion so I was thinking of purchasing the blenny at the LFS and letting him stay there for a week while the fuzzy gets acquainted and maybe the fuzzy will realise he gets fed on a daily basis, and doesnt need to eat my fish for survival.
Lol I dunno. I feel like its an impulse buy but he is so darn cute!.
Whats the diff btw the bicolor blenny and the midas?
Thanks guys
Jessica/Shrimpi
My jawfish opens his mouth wide when any fish swims to close, but is actually a big chicken and retreats into his hole after he opens his mouth, no one in the tank is the least bit scared of him, and he knows it.
thats what mine does too! lol
Yeah, I just got the new fuzzy lion so I was thinking of purchasing the blenny at the LFS and letting him stay there for a week while the fuzzy gets acquainted and maybe the fuzzy will realise he gets fed on a daily basis, and doesnt need to eat my fish for survival.
Lol I dunno. I feel like its an impulse buy but he is so darn cute!.
Whats the diff btw the bicolor blenny and the midas?
Thanks guys
Jessica/Shrimpi
lesleybird
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Originally Posted by 1journeyman
Good fish, love to poke out of your live rock. They'll find holes you never knew were there.
They can be aggressive so add to an established tank.
Agressive? I have had two and never had any problem with them being agressive to anything. Maybe only in a small tank without enough of their own holes in the rocks? Lesley
Good fish, love to poke out of your live rock. They'll find holes you never knew were there.
They can be aggressive so add to an established tank.
Agressive? I have had two and never had any problem with them being agressive to anything. Maybe only in a small tank without enough of their own holes in the rocks? Lesley
1journeyman
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Nope.. had one in my old 55. Full of live rock. He'd routinely even bite my hand.
I don't have it in front of me, but I believe Michael's also lists them as potentially aggressive towards other blennies, gobies, firefish, etc.
I don't have it in front of me, but I believe Michael's also lists them as potentially aggressive towards other blennies, gobies, firefish, etc.
lesleybird
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Originally Posted by 1journeyman
Nope.. had one in my old 55. Full of live rock. He'd routinely even bite my hand.
I don't have it in front of me, but I believe Michael's also lists them as potentially aggressive towards other blennies, gobies, firefish, etc.
Yes, I have heard that they will not tolerate others similar to themselves....like gobies, other blennys, fire fire fish etc. Mine were nerer kept with any of these kinds of fish but they did not bother small wrasses, small angels, clowns, royal grammas, and never were they comming after my hands! They were much too timid and would hide from hands. Lesley
Nope.. had one in my old 55. Full of live rock. He'd routinely even bite my hand.
I don't have it in front of me, but I believe Michael's also lists them as potentially aggressive towards other blennies, gobies, firefish, etc.
Yes, I have heard that they will not tolerate others similar to themselves....like gobies, other blennys, fire fire fish etc. Mine were nerer kept with any of these kinds of fish but they did not bother small wrasses, small angels, clowns, royal grammas, and never were they comming after my hands! They were much too timid and would hide from hands. Lesley
dmitry
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I had a Bicolor with a Yellow Watchman Goby and a Purple Firefish and he didn't bother any of them. There was also a Lion at one point and the Lion didn't bother the Blenny. (By the way, you probably shouldn't feed a Lion every day.) Bicolor Blennies are among my favorite fish - they'll spend all day hopping from rock to rock to get a better look at all the goings-on. Mine also loved to swim right up to a power-head and swim against the current, his tail flailing.
jerthunter
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Speaking of aggresiveness, mine isn't aggresive but when I added him my blue damsel, who is larger than the blenny, was acting aggressive and picking on him for about a day. After a day my bicolor blenny got sick of it and put my blue damsel in his place. Now they both leave each other alone but I was impressed at how a tiny little fish like my blenny could stand up for himself.
shrimpi
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Originally Posted by Dmitry
I had a Bicolor with a Yellow Watchman Goby and a Purple Firefish and he didn't bother any of them. There was also a Lion at one point and the Lion didn't bother the Blenny. (By the way, you probably shouldn't feed a Lion every day.) Bicolor Blennies are among my favorite fish - they'll spend all day hopping from rock to rock to get a better look at all the goings-on. Mine also loved to swim right up to a power-head and swim against the current, his tail flailing.
Sorry I didnt mean "daily basis" feeding like I said . I just meant that he doens have to worry about food day-to-day.
He gets fed 2-3x week.
I had a Bicolor with a Yellow Watchman Goby and a Purple Firefish and he didn't bother any of them. There was also a Lion at one point and the Lion didn't bother the Blenny. (By the way, you probably shouldn't feed a Lion every day.) Bicolor Blennies are among my favorite fish - they'll spend all day hopping from rock to rock to get a better look at all the goings-on. Mine also loved to swim right up to a power-head and swim against the current, his tail flailing.
Sorry I didnt mean "daily basis" feeding like I said . I just meant that he doens have to worry about food day-to-day.
He gets fed 2-3x week.