flower
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I have had a LMB for many years, I leave the back walls and sides of my tank alone and the blenny grazes on it all day long and on the rocks as well. He loves the short green algae not the long hair algae, that he won’t touch. He will nip at the seaweed sheet I put in the tank for the tangs and I’m sure a LMB can live on an algae sheet in QT.
A LMB is not a good choice to be rid of hair algae, a pigmy angelfish will eat it. So will turbo snails, sea hares and the like. However if, like me, a tank just needs a lawnmower blenny because you like them…they have great personalities and are a very hardy little fish. If your back wall is covered in SHORT algae the blenny has plenty to eat and when it mows down a section another area will sprout, if the algae gets sparse…add the algae sheet until the back re-grows. That is what I do.