Red Scooter Blenny

[VP Clown]

What are these like, i've read there like mandarins same family. are they as difficult to feed??

Andy

[cl0wn]

same family, but they don't have as bad a reputation as mandies. still need a mature tank with plenty of live food.

[Aquandy]

Super fish IMHO, I have a mated pair and its great to watch them swim together on a night. Defo reccommend them :bigthumbup:.

[Zeus]

Super fish IMHO, I have a mated pair and its great to watch them swim together on a night. Defo reccommend them :bigthumbup:.

Absolutely agree. :D


VP Clown, when feeding frozen food, Brine, Mysis etc, a good idea is to switch off your flow pumps off, this will help the wee guy capture food as Scooters are terrible at capturing fast moving food in the water column, if they don't completely ignore it that is.

HTH
Campbell

[VP Clown]

Absolutely agree. :D


VP Clown, when feeding frozen food, Brine, Mysis etc, a good idea is to switch off your flow pumps off, this will help the wee guy capture food as Scooters are terrible at capturing fast moving food in the water column, if they don't completely ignore it that is.

HTH
Campbell
I have had a chance of one from someone who is shutting his tank down, i don't want to take it if it won't feed. I have a 7 month old 34 gallon tank, 22kg live rock, there are pods in that i see if i look in at night, but how do i determine if there is enough to sustain it if it only eats live food?

Andy

[Zeus]

Hi,

There no real way to determine is there's enough 'pods. You could buy cultures and add them once a month and a rubble zone or refugium will help. If he's not getting enough you'll know.

Scooter are miles ahead of Mandarins in there willing to take dead foods. What I meant by switching the flow pumps off is that it gives you a better chance to get them on to frozen and them a better chance to actually capture it. You see their eyes seem to be focused for catching prey in 2 dimensions on the rock surface, they don't seem to have good 3d vision/depth perception and tend lunge at and miss free floating foods.

I switch my pumps off at feeding time and I even managed to get the female Scooter to eat flake. Pumps off really does work.

Campbell

[cl0wn]

i was reading on another forum the other night about weaning mandarins onto dead food. apparently use a breeding trap put the fish in there. feed regularly with newly hatched brine. every time you feed add more and more frozen, and less and less live. some claim it does work well on this other site. obviously the process is gradual and over a couple of weeks.