richgoose
New member
Hello TBRC - I have been meaning to introduce myself for awhile here, I have been lurking for awhile but haven't had time to post much about my system. It is a BioCube 29, filter wall chopped out and drilled, sumped w/ NAC 3.5 skimmer, DIY LED. Been up for a year - small acan garden, most of the good monti's and some sticks. I'll get around to a proper thread about it soon.
I am having an issue and need to lean on the braintrust. I bought a Tail-Spot Blenny about 2 months ago from Marine Warehouse - he came in skinny but has fattened up quickly - very active, one of my favorite fish. Until he developed a taste for my mind trick. It has been a spot here and a spot there, and the coral has been recovering and still growing - now i come home this afternoon and the JMT is looking super rough, like he has been working over the whole surface of it all day. I tied to feed and scoop him in the net to no avail, he finally went into his home on my big pillar so i was forced to pull it out... what a pain. I now have him trapped in a swiss cheese'd plastic container I made a few years ago to seperate aggressive clowns. One of my dream fish when I was restarting my system was the Red Sea mimic blenny - since I was unable to get one of those I went for this similar species but now this. FWIW Emmett warned me this would happen.
If anyone has any suggestions for how I might curb this behavior, please share. Otherwise, if you are looking for an active healthy blenny, I will (reluctantly) rehome him. I paid 30$ for this little guy, make an offer I'm not so much concerned about money as much as trying to find him a good home away from my JMT colony.
Also, I would like to clear my frag rack - I have 1 small mind trick frag, 2 over-encrusted mystic sunset monti frags, single polyp orange maul, 2 polyp big green paly frag, and a nice garf bonsai frag. I'd prefer to trade for acro, acan or chalice frags, but if you don't have anything like this we can work something out.
I am having an issue and need to lean on the braintrust. I bought a Tail-Spot Blenny about 2 months ago from Marine Warehouse - he came in skinny but has fattened up quickly - very active, one of my favorite fish. Until he developed a taste for my mind trick. It has been a spot here and a spot there, and the coral has been recovering and still growing - now i come home this afternoon and the JMT is looking super rough, like he has been working over the whole surface of it all day. I tied to feed and scoop him in the net to no avail, he finally went into his home on my big pillar so i was forced to pull it out... what a pain. I now have him trapped in a swiss cheese'd plastic container I made a few years ago to seperate aggressive clowns. One of my dream fish when I was restarting my system was the Red Sea mimic blenny - since I was unable to get one of those I went for this similar species but now this. FWIW Emmett warned me this would happen.
If anyone has any suggestions for how I might curb this behavior, please share. Otherwise, if you are looking for an active healthy blenny, I will (reluctantly) rehome him. I paid 30$ for this little guy, make an offer I'm not so much concerned about money as much as trying to find him a good home away from my JMT colony.
Also, I would like to clear my frag rack - I have 1 small mind trick frag, 2 over-encrusted mystic sunset monti frags, single polyp orange maul, 2 polyp big green paly frag, and a nice garf bonsai frag. I'd prefer to trade for acro, acan or chalice frags, but if you don't have anything like this we can work something out.
