1 Month ago I was over run with hairy algae. I did some reading and bought a lawnmower blennie. He has completely cleared my tank of algae, but now he is starving. My LFS said he would eat other foods too such as the flakes i feed my other fish as well as frozen algae, but he is not feeding. He just keeps looking over the rocks for more algae and wont touch any of the food I provide. Has anybody ever had this happen? What else can I try? Its only a 29 gallon tank and he is a big blenny.
lawn mower blennie starving
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gone fishin
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you could try some Nori or find a new home for him.
cyruson
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He 'll die sooner or later. Mine did too. You can bring him back to fish store for credit or Pass it forward.
tracyclifton
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Get some seaweed at the pet store. Attach it to a clip or a rock and let it sink to the bottom in the back of the tank. He will find it. I have one about 5 inches long that is thriving in my tank off seaweed. He eats with the tangs off the clip attached to the glass now.
E Rosewater
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Mine won't touch anything but algae. I have a big tank though, so he seems to be doing alright.
AliciaP
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My bicolor blenny eats Nori and also algae that is on the back wall. I don't scrub the algae off that, I let the snails, foxface, yellow tang, and blenny munch away at it. Seems to keep them good and healthy and I would rather have some algae that is ugly be there for my fishes than to have it as cleaned off as possible.
I would try rubberbanding Nori to a rock and change it at least every 12 hours.
I would try rubberbanding Nori to a rock and change it at least every 12 hours.
good_reefer
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try romaine lettuce 
seamonkey84
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I usually get algae blennies to eat frozen mysis and brine at the least, not ideal but they'll eat it. My tailspot blenny took months before he would eat pellets, but would eat frozen mysis and formula two.
SaltLifeBob
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RIP Blennie
