Bad blennys

[noahm]

First I had to banish the little scooter (I think thats what he is), for pulling up a small flower nem and then biting its tentacles every time it opened. Now my bigger blenny (slightly horizontal striped with blue fin spot) just ate my nice orange ric frag I just got. I will banish him as soon as he gets caught. I have never seen such a pig. He will eat as much as can be put in front of him. I have seen him where I thought for sure he would pop. Oh well sumpward bound.

 

[Yogre]

They do seem mischievous. I know Divemonster has (or maybe had) one that she had to banish. Mine was constantly digging in the sand, sometimes it would look like a snowstorm in the tank he stirred up so much crud. Something got him, though, he just disappeared one day and I haven't seen him since.

Good luck with the little varmint.

 

[noahm]

Yeah, I actually like his antics, but they have a habit of viciously grab/pulling whatever it is they are the least bit curious of eating. In this case, it was a very nice ric frag and deep down inside I was hoping it killed him lol. Probably looked like a nice gummi candy to him.

 

[divemonster]

hahaha! I bet your were, Noah. Bad blennies, indeed! :mad2: I had named mine Stinker because of its mischievous nature. But later changed that to something considerably less flattering...something that is not to be written on a family board such as this.

I caught the greedy thing in the mantis trap I had set out. It had gotten so big I could not keep any other fish in the tank, it would bully them all to death. Richard had sent me a smaller blenny in a C.A.R.E. package and I put it in the tank in place of the big one. Now I know what happened to my ricordia....I was blaming my coral banded shrimp.

 

[DruidsLaughter]

naughty blenny

naughty blenny

My blenny will back into the mantis shrimp's hole while it is in there and flap his tail as fast as he can. I can only imagine what the poor mantis looks like in there!