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I picked up a scooter blenny about a week ago... he did resemble a dragonet but I figured "ah he's a blenny, right?"... but I'd always hear dragonets were difficult to feed. So I go online and I guess he is a kind of dragonet. He scoots around the bottom and on my liverock and nibbles at it but I don't think there's a whole lot of life there... I've been putting frozen Cyclops in and I am hoping he's getting at them. I've also seen him sometimes eat bloodworms that drift down there before my Green Spotted Puffer gets them. Do you think this is sufficient? Should I trust he is picking those tiny cyclops things out of the gravel/rocks?
OrionGirl
05-18-2006, 3:23 PM
If they are there, he's hunting them. Scooters tend to be a bit easier to get eating prepared foods than mandarins. Keep an eye on him, and make sure he doesn't get a sucked up tummy--if it starts heading concave, find some live foods to put in. You can also promote more pods reproduction by adding some little piles of coral rubble in the corners where they can breed easier.
Germanman
05-19-2006, 4:59 PM
try turning off ur pumps and feed thawed mysis shrimp using a pipet or baster so it goes on the bottem most tend to eat frozen food that ive seen so give it a shot.
dischirm
05-19-2006, 5:05 PM
Aren't GSP's brackish fish??
OrionGirl
05-19-2006, 9:18 PM
No, they need full marine conditions as adults. The juveniles are found in brackish waters, but migrate to the ocean as they mature. They can often survive in high brackish water, but do best in marine. Kept in low-brackish or fresh, they suffer from a huge number of skin ailments, are prone to fasting, and live much shortened life spans.
sapgranth25
06-03-2006, 5:01 AM
i know this is an old thread but i did have the same worry about my scooter i have thought & thought how will he get food evey day until one day the ansa was rite there stuck to the tank the magnet alge cleaner yeah i know sounds strange
BUT
take it out put the food on the side that go`s in the tank i use brime shrimp but i guess any food will do..
then put the magnet back in the tank carefully agaist the glass then connect the other magnet side then with the food locked in between the magnet&glass
run the magnet down to the substrate then pull the magnet off & the magnet in the tank should lay on the sand ect like a little plate just for your scooter
so there you go a meal a day for the little fellow......