LMB & Scooter Roomates?

deltablack22

deltablack22

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Ok, this is a really simple question - I wanna know who has a Lawn Mower Blenny and Scooter "Blenny" in the same tank. What size tank you have and do they play nicely with one another?
Reason I ask is because I'm thinking about adding a LMB to my 30, oh and Miss Hagerstown wants to know so she can add a scooter.
 
seasalt101

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too small of a system for a scooter sorry you need a mature tank lots of pods and at least 100 lbs. of lr the smallest system i would say is a 75 gal and well established they are awesome fish...tobin
 
beadebaserrrr

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Originally Posted by DeltaBlack22
Ok, this is a really simple question - I wanna know who has a Lawn Mower Blenny and Scooter "Blenny" in the same tank. What size tank you have and do they play nicely with one another?
Reason I ask is because I'm thinking about adding a LMB to my 30, oh and Miss Hagerstown wants to know so she can add a scooter.

Miss Hagerstown made me smile. Haha. Thank you!

And yes, I want to know. I have a 72 gallon, i don't have tons of live rock yet though.. in the process of getting some more now... sooo... can i do it?
 
renogaw

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while scooters will hunt for pods, i believe they will though eat pellets a lot easier than mandarins. they should get along ok but if your LMB doesn't have enough algae you may have issues (i would think)
 
seasalt101

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Originally Posted by beadebaserrrr
Miss Hagerstown made me smile. Haha. Thank you!

And yes, I want to know. I have a 72 gallon, i don't have tons of live rock yet though.. in the process of getting some more now... sooo... can i do it?
after your lr is there for a year or more then yes and hopefully you have a fuge if not get one and start by buying a bottle or 2 of pods from this site to get them breeding 1 scooter can eat a few hundred a day that way when you do add the scooter he won'trun out of food as you will have thousands of pods put some chaeto in the fuge also and get some lr rubble for your tank i would recomend 100lbs. of lr...tobin
 
earlybird

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Originally Posted by seasalt101
after your lr is there for a year or more then yes and hopefully you have a fuge if not get one and start by buying a bottle or 2 of pods from this site to get them breeding 1 scooter can eat a few hundred a day that way when you do add the scooter he won'trun out of food as you will have thousands of pods put some chaeto in the fuge also and get some lr rubble for your tank i would recomend 100lbs. of lr...tobin
Great advice. I'm also with reno on the lmb and algae. You can however purchase different forms of macro that can be put in a fuge with a light and you can feed them the clippings or just put the rock in with the algae growing on it for them to graze for a few hours and then put it back. Sorry about the run-on-sentence.
 
jessica47421

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i have a lwm and a scooter in my tank, its a 55 gal and they do fine together. but both of them will eat any food i throw in there so there is no problem with them getting enough food.lol
 
seasalt101

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Originally Posted by jessica47421
i have a lwm and a scooter in my tank, its a 55 gal and they do fine together. but both of them will eat any food i throw in there so there is no problem with them getting enough food.lol
because it worked for you does not make it good advise...tobin
 
jessica47421

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Originally Posted by DeltaBlack22
Ok, this is a really simple question - I wanna know who has a Lawn Mower Blenny and Scooter "Blenny" in the same tank. What size tank you have and do they play nicely with one another?
Reason I ask is because I'm thinking about adding a LMB to my 30, oh and Miss Hagerstown wants to know so she can add a scooter.


sorry was just answering her questions. didnt know it was bad advise.
 
deltablack22

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Originally Posted by seasalt101
too small of a system for a scooter sorry you need a mature tank lots of pods and at least 100 lbs. of lr the smallest system i would say is a 75 gal and well established they are awesome fish...tobin
I know they are awesome fish and I would agree to that point if we were talking mandarins, but my Scooter, much like the majority readily accepts frozen foods so the LR/Pods issue is mute.
My question was simply - are the two fish compatable?
 
deltablack22

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Originally Posted by jessica47421
sorry was just answering her questions. didnt know it was bad advise.
Thanks jessica, you were the only one that actually answered the question - Which was: ARE THE TWO FISH COMPATABLE?
(not that the other bits of info werent fun to read, it just wasnt what was asked)
The whole reason this thread was started was because I heard a poster say that their LMB killed their Scooter... I was trying to validate/disprove that statement...
 
jessica47421

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ur welcome i am having alot of ppl bashing me in another thread bc of my fish list that includes these two. so i know how it feels to ask a question and get everyones opinions on everything but the question you actually asked, so i just try to answer the questions the best i can and that it.
 
earlybird

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Originally Posted by DeltaBlack22
Thanks jessica, you were the only one that actually answered the question - Which was: ARE THE TWO FISH COMPATABLE?
(not that the other bits of info werent fun to read, it just wasnt what was asked)
The whole reason this thread was started was because I heard a poster say that their LMB killed their Scooter... I was trying to validate/disprove that statement...

Please keep in mind that success in one persons tank does not guarantee that it will work for you. It's very possible that a lmb can kill a scooter, they compete for the same food but imo they would be fine together in a very large reef tank.
 
symon

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I have a scooter and an LMB in the same tank for over a year now, But the tank was well established (year+)
75 gal tank 80-100 lbs rock
 
deltablack22

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Aight, I suppose I'm satisfied with that... Thanks for yalls input.

It just kills me when someone gives their opinion on a subject and then gets shutdown because its not the textbook way of doing things. If we continue to follow that mindset this hobby will never evolve. Isnt growth through trial/error/and other hobbiests experiences what these forums are all about?
 
jessica47421

jessica47421

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Originally Posted by DeltaBlack22
Aight, I suppose I'm satisfied with that... Thanks for yalls input.

It just kills me when someone gives their opinion on a subject and then gets shutdown because its not the textbook way of doing things. If we continue to follow that mindset this hobby will never evolve. Isnt growth through trial/error/and other hobbiests experiences what these forums are all about?
very well said
 
renogaw

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learning from other peoples' experience will hopefully prevent too many fish from dying.
think about it. if someone jumped off a cliff, and broke every bone in their body, and told you not to do it, would you still jump off the cliff? you're not a lemming (i hope).
saltwater fish tanks are not new. They started out huge, yet everything kept dying. reef's looked like crap, and someone figured out skimmers. Now almost everyone has a skimmer in their tank, and look at how healthy tanks are with them. that's learning from other's experience as well.
so if someone says don't put a tang in a 20 gallon tank, or a mandarin in anything less than a 75 with a healthy pod population and a refugium, or don't put multiple perculas in the same tank, or don't put a horseshoe crab in our tanks, or don't put seahorses with lionfish, etc etc etc, why won't people listen? they get all defensive and think they are getting bashed :(
 
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