K, so some you may remember that I "rescued" a Scooter Blenny from Petco. He was all skinny and I had to bring him home. He was doing okay in my tank and I saw him pick at the frozen foods I put in sometimes. When I added in my live rock from FL, he definitely started doing better, fattened up good on those rocks! I've got the fuge pretty well stocked now, so he does good as far as live food goes. However, in the last week, I've been feeding frozen spirulina brine shrimp and vitamin enriched bloodworms soaked in vitamins and a few drops of stinky Phyto Feast and sometimes with some really stinky freeze dried krill I've ground up with a mortar and pestle and sprinkled in the disgusting mess. The first day I fed the stinky freeze dried krill, he actually swam out into the water column to chase the food! It was too big for him though, which is why I'm now grinding it up with a mortar and pestle (that will never be used for cooking again).
So I was sitting in front of the tank tonight, just watching the fish and eating some ice cream and this crazy fish, starts swimming upright with his fins all raised and his colors on his face gone all dark and he swims across the front of the tank like that! I thought at first that he was trying to intimidate the diamond goby, who was properly intimidated and backed up out of Scootie's way. But he kept going back and forth along the front of the tank watching ME and flaring his fins and acting like a spaz! I got the camera and took a few pics to share of this nutty behavior! I finally decided he must be begging and I fed the tank a cube of bloodworms and he just chased them around sucking it up like spaghetti.
This is the part where I am also going to admit to you guys that last weekend, I was weak and purchased a spotted mandarin. He's only an inch long and had been at the LFS for two weeks and was eating some prepared foods they were offering and was active and apparently healthy, if a tad skinny. Well, he has also been nutty for this stinky mixture I've been making and was also at the front of the tank begging tonight! And he gobbled up the bloodworms until his little tummy bulged out! I am SO thrilled! I'd read that if you can get one when they're small, you have a better chance of weaning onto prepared foods and I'm so glad it's working! I did just add a TON of life and teeny critters to my fuge from IPSF though, and will add more periodically. No pics of the little baby guy yet. Here are some of Scooty Booty though! The first pic was taken shortly after I first got him. You can totally see the difference in his size since then!
Oh, btw, I use a turkey baster to feed, so I make sure there is food pretty evenly distributed and I target some to the slower fish like Scooty.
So I was sitting in front of the tank tonight, just watching the fish and eating some ice cream and this crazy fish, starts swimming upright with his fins all raised and his colors on his face gone all dark and he swims across the front of the tank like that! I thought at first that he was trying to intimidate the diamond goby, who was properly intimidated and backed up out of Scootie's way. But he kept going back and forth along the front of the tank watching ME and flaring his fins and acting like a spaz! I got the camera and took a few pics to share of this nutty behavior! I finally decided he must be begging and I fed the tank a cube of bloodworms and he just chased them around sucking it up like spaghetti.
This is the part where I am also going to admit to you guys that last weekend, I was weak and purchased a spotted mandarin. He's only an inch long and had been at the LFS for two weeks and was eating some prepared foods they were offering and was active and apparently healthy, if a tad skinny. Well, he has also been nutty for this stinky mixture I've been making and was also at the front of the tank begging tonight! And he gobbled up the bloodworms until his little tummy bulged out! I am SO thrilled! I'd read that if you can get one when they're small, you have a better chance of weaning onto prepared foods and I'm so glad it's working! I did just add a TON of life and teeny critters to my fuge from IPSF though, and will add more periodically. No pics of the little baby guy yet. Here are some of Scooty Booty though! The first pic was taken shortly after I first got him. You can totally see the difference in his size since then!
Oh, btw, I use a turkey baster to feed, so I make sure there is food pretty evenly distributed and I target some to the slower fish like Scooty.
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