Does your midas blenny perch on rocks?

[happyface888]

I recently picked up a midas in replacement of my bicolor that I had lost. although they both look similar I was wondering if a midas would perch on rocks. So far I haven't seen mine perch like my old bicolor.

 

[SDguy]

Mine is almost always swimming, except when he sleeps.

 

[Butt Fish]

no your Midas if it is like mine, will actually perch inside holes in the rocks.

Mine exits regularly but is almost always spotted with its head peaking out of a hole.

It is my favorite fish in my tank

 

[ACBlinky]

Mine swims all day, then curls up in a hole to sleep at night. The only time he heads for the rockwork is if he sees someone venture too close to his cave -- then he'll dart inside his hole and glare out at them. Once the intruder is gone, he's back out swimming around. Midas blennies aren't like bicolours; they typically spend a lot more time in the water column than other blennies.

 

[porkfish7767]

I have seen several people praising the midas blenny. I am interested in adding one to my 75 gallon tank. My question is, I curently have a very small 1.5" blue tang, a diamond goby, a finespot fairy wrasse, a royal gramma and a couple ocellaris clowns. Will the blenny have any problems with these tankmates?
Thanks

 

[eskymick]

I have a midas and a bicolor blenny. The midas spends a lot of time swimming, but he also perches on the rocks a fair amount of the time. In fact, the midas and the bicolor often times perch together on the same rock.

 

[FishAreFriends2]

I didn't think it was possible to mix blennys in the same tank.

 

[happyface888]

I see, my old bicolor use to sit alot on rocks but the midas doesn't as much. But overall its a nice fish.

 

[chrisstie]

You can mix some blennies, its easier to do if they aren't in the same family (not sure if thats the right term)

I would avoid mixing any of the fangtooth blennies with any others for fear of them biting similar colors and shapes but a midas blenny can usually (if the tank is big enough, depending on the fish etc) be kept with some escensius blennies and algae blennies.

I have a tailspot and a sailfin in the same tank and if midas weren't such jumpers I'd have one too. In my next tank I will have to have one (and a good lid system!) they are amazing fish.

I've read or heard somewhere that in the wild they will mingle with schools of anthias looking for food, would love to see that in a tank!

 

[Amazon4]

Mine has his favorite spots to lounge. Sometimes a crevice or hole, and some times out in the open. I'd say he spends half his time swimming. He's quite a people watcher, too.

We have a temporary frag rack of egg crate in his tank and he'll lay on that and stick his head through the side piece of egg crate and watch me...nodding his head up and down. Quite a cutie.

Btw - he is in with a dragon goby, two firefish, yellow canary wrasse, coral beauty, and a juvi hippo (1.5"). They all seem to get along great.

 

[superedge88]

Mine is the most active small reef fish I have every personally owned. I can't believe how much it swims around in the currents and never seems to get tired! Only stops at night to sit in a hole to rest.

 

[Amoore311]

My Midas is a lazy fish lol. I love him though he has a ton of personality.

He will sit in his hole in the live rock and darken up and blend. He'll stick about 2-3 inches out and just watch everyone doing their thing in the tank.

Then when I come into the room or it's feeding time, he scoots on our and brightens up. He starts to surf in the flow from my modded Maxi-jets and picks of w/e food comes his way.

Just recently he started picking up mouth fulls of sand and tossing it around every once in a while. He's such an oddball haha.

 

[happyface888]

Ok I didn't think midas were such a jumper. kind of scary there, mine is open top hope nothing like carpet surfing happens.

 

[Leviathan_XE]

Mine was in the lazy bunch. He sat on this one particular powerhead all day. But when he was spooked it was like a yellow bolt of lightning! Boy could he jump, a few times he hit the egg-crate on the top of the tank so hard I could hear it from another room. My gramna would bully him. Then one day he just vanished, thought he went surfing but no sign of that. Funny little fish.