Red sea mimic blenny

jhnrb

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FAMILY - Blenniidae

SCIENTIFIC NAME - Ecsenius Gravieri

COMMON NAME - Red Sea Mimic Blenny

SIZE - 3.1" (8 cm)

RANGE - Red Sea

MIN. AQUARIUM SIZE - 20 US Gal. (76 L)

FOODS AND FEEDING - Varied diet, frozen foods that contain marine algae, spirulina, growth of micro algae in tank a plus.

AQUARIUM SUITABILITY - 8

REEF COMPATIBILITY - Know to eat small polyped stony corals, nip at large polyped stony corals and clam mantles.

CAPTIVE CARE - Mimics the fang blemmy Meiacanthus Nigrolincatus, is avoided by adult preditors in the wild, a harmless blenny, easy to keep in tanks with some micro algae growth, keep only one per tank unless a proven pair can be obtained, may be aggressive to bottom dwellers smaller than itself.

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