Mandarin or scooter blenny in a nano

[chrisnif]

I'm sure its been discussed here, but I cant find it
Has anyone had success with a mandarin or a scooter blenny in a nano tank. I know keeping the pod pop up is difficult but aside from that, has anyone had success and what size tank would be the bottom line as an "only fish" with some corals and a small CUC.
I know a scooter can be trained fairly easily to eat frozen foods, but my LFS has 3 mandarin (2 green and a spotted) that are eating a frozen mixture they make that is a mix of the orange roe from sushi, fresh brine shrimp, and a paste made up of flake food and water, all frozen up then thawed/injected in front of the mandarin. They all seem happy and healthy and they are in bare tanks so i know they aren't eating pods (and they've been at the LFS for a few months).
I don't want to start a flame war as i know this is a "touchy" subject for some but I'm hoping to see if anyone has had success with this.
Thanks

 

[cranberry]

If he's taking those food items, he should be trained to take something different... something better. Flake food and brineshrimp aren't good long term.
Mine ate frozen mysis very well.

 

[browniebuck]

I would have to think that it would be dicey...you would probably want to re-seed the tank every couple weeks with pods (at my LFS, 1000 pods are $19.95).
I agree with cranberry...you would want to see if the mandarin or scooter would adapt to mysis.

 

[srfisher17]

I should avoid this, I know nothing about nano tanks. BUT, from everything I've read & heard (which is a lot), the odds of keeping a Mandarin long term in a tank that small are very slim.

 

[ophiura]

How nano of a nano and with what other fish?
In general I would not do this as just behaviorally they do tend to move and "hunt" a lot. It is better to give them a larger space. They are also not particularly small fish in the end. So while it may make it possible to keep them in a "larger" small tank, like a 30long, I would still be wary putting them in what is traditionally considered a "nano."
They are constantly picking at things if you watch them, so I would also be concerned about overall water quality in a small tank with one.
And in general if these fish were not eating prepared foods, I would not even risk it.