R3verb
Time to add some coral!
- Location
- Fort Collins, Colorado
Hey guys, just got a scooter blemmy, just wondering if there is anything I need to do special for him!
Scooter Blemmy
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little_fish
Reef pro
- Location
- ABQ, NM
Scooter blennies are actually a type of dragonette and unless he is trained to eat frozen he is likely going to starve to death in your tank :( I would take him back personally.
Also, your tank is getting very full! i wouldnt have more than 3 fish in your tank.
Also, your tank is getting very full! i wouldnt have more than 3 fish in your tank.
R3verb
Time to add some coral!
- Location
- Fort Collins, Colorado
I was told he will eat frozen foods. I have brine shrimp here at home and some pellets as well. How should I feed him? The LFS said to just burry some brine shrimp in the sand and he will dig it up. Is that true?
little_fish
Reef pro
- Location
- ABQ, NM
No, at least i have never heard of that, nor do i think it will work. Also brine has almost no nutritional value, its like candy for fish, dried food isnt much better. I would switch to a variety of different frozen foods.
Unless you see him eat the food, i would assume he is only eating live foods. Also for further reference, never buy a fish you dont see eat in the store. Its a good indicator of health and it can be very hard to train a fish to eat our prepared food. Its awful to watch something to starve to death. Also never trust a lfs employee 100%, you have no idea if they even have a tank, if they have taken care of it properly and there whole job is to sell you something. If it dies and you go back and buy more, that is better for their bottom line.
Unless you see him eat the food, i would assume he is only eating live foods. Also for further reference, never buy a fish you dont see eat in the store. Its a good indicator of health and it can be very hard to train a fish to eat our prepared food. Its awful to watch something to starve to death. Also never trust a lfs employee 100%, you have no idea if they even have a tank, if they have taken care of it properly and there whole job is to sell you something. If it dies and you go back and buy more, that is better for their bottom line.
+1 My mandarin, luckily eats frozen, my lfs had him in a new tank with very little pods and I also saw him eat the live food. But my tank has enough pods to support 2 of them.
Unfortunately, I would never bury food in the sand, your just asking for nitrate build up and for something bad to happen.
Unfortunately, I would never bury food in the sand, your just asking for nitrate build up and for something bad to happen.
R3verb
Time to add some coral!
- Location
- Fort Collins, Colorado
what are pods? (yes I'm a noob)
Pods are live food that grow in our tanks. Its like a small population of creatures that fish feed on. Dragonette fish only feed on live foods, generally and are very hard to get onto frozen because they grazy constantly.
If your pod population is low, a dragonette will quickly decimate it.
If your pod population is low, a dragonette will quickly decimate it.
LBFish
Reefing newb
- Location
- Long Beach, CA
I had one in my tank, that would eat frozen food. I verified that he did at my LFS before I brought him home. But, he didn't really swim around the tank at feeding time to get to the frozen food and so the other fish ate almost all of it leaving little for him. So, I started using one of the syringes that come with some tests kits and would get it close to him as he would allow and squirt some out. Over a week or so he learned and would let me get very close to him and eat as I squirted the food out. It worked out well, but he still searched the tank all day looking for food. I supplemented my tank with live pods from the LFS, half in the DT and half in the fuge.
R3verb
Time to add some coral!
- Location
- Fort Collins, Colorado
Thanks guy. After all of this I am considering taking him back. It seems like it would be very hard to leave him in the care of a friend if I ever went on vacation. If he went back, would an emerald crab be a good bottom feeder for my tank? That's why I got this guy and apparently that's not what he does.
What do you mean by bottom feeder? 1 emerald crab would be all you want, and he is good for certain types of algae. If your looking for cleanup crew, get snails that stir up the sand and some other ones that are larger. Not sure on names. Other than that, shrimps are great cleaners. I wouldnt worry about much else when it comes to cleanup crew
R3verb
Time to add some coral!
- Location
- Fort Collins, Colorado
Ok so how about a turbo snail? I would like to get specifics so I can get the right kind of CUC.
R3verb
Time to add some coral!
- Location
- Fort Collins, Colorado
Mainly just something to clean up the alge and any food particles left on the bottom of the tank.
Hermits are the best for that, but I hate them, they grow, kill snails and take their shells XD Strombus snails are good for stirring and cleaning sand beds, and turbos are also great, its good to have a mixture of snails. Never just one type.
One emerald crab is a maxiumum, but you dont really need him. Lots of snails are the go, but add them as you need them, not too many at once or they will die from lack of food
One emerald crab is a maxiumum, but you dont really need him. Lots of snails are the go, but add them as you need them, not too many at once or they will die from lack of food
little_fish
Reef pro
- Location
- ABQ, NM
+1 Marcah, i think the animal you are looking for are nass snails. Another neat option would be a serpent or brittle star. But dont get a sand sifting star, those guys too often starve to death in our tanks.
R3verb
Time to add some coral!
- Location
- Fort Collins, Colorado
I have heard good things about brittle stars. Would I be overstocking my tank with a brittle and a snail or two?
