blenny food

[AquaAdam]

Well levels have been good in my tank so I decided to introduce a couple turbo snails and a bi-colour blenny. I've read that they'll eat newlife spectrum food and I have some but I'm not really sure how much to put in. As he is new to the tank he's been playing peek-a-boo with me so I'm slightly concerned how I should feed him or if I should just drop in the food from the top and hope for the best. Any help is appreciated. P.S. I'm amazed at how well those those turbo snails are cleaning up the algae in the tank.

 

[billdogg]

What kind of Blennie? My Sailfin eats anything and everything I put in the tank. For being so small he's quite the pig. Bicolors and similar will happily munch on your algae, at at least IME, most other foods as well.

As to amount - just enough that it is eaten within a couple minutes. Much like kids with cereal, once it gets soggy they tend to lose interest.

 

[jstack]

randomly toss a lil food in once a day. let him get hungry never try to target feed new fish as you will prob just have a negative result and food being spent. My starry blenny will eat anything I mean anything blenny's excluding lawnmowers are pretty good eaters. and crop dusters mine loves to hover over the lps take aim nuke em after a good eat so funny afterwards he perchs and looks at what he did

 

[AquaAdam]

Thanks for the replies. i saw him eating something that floated by him earlier so at least i know he's eating. jstack, by a lil food do you mean just a pinch?

 

[Jeff4777]

Sounds like he will come around, hes still getting use to the new environment

 

[cloak]

I just added a Bicolor Blenny to my tank a few weeks ago and this thing is an absolute pig. It did take him a few days to come around, but now it's eating everything from flakes to pellets, live black worms to frozen beef heart. The only downside is that I've started to notice some blemishes on a few of my Montiporas. I didn't think anything of it at first and then I saw the Blenny picking at them. I'm hoping it's just a phase because I really don't want to try and catch this thing.

 

[Sk8r]

Hopefully Montipora may be able to grow faster than the little guy can eat, or it may be a temporary need for a nutrient---sounds as if he arrived hungry and tries everything.