Lets talk Blenny!

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JoeVandal49

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So while my tank goes through its fallow period, i find my self thinking about what i want for live stock for the future.

I love Blennys. I was wondering what every ones favorite Blenny is? Why?

Also share experiences where you kept more than one type of blenny housed together. What size tank? Was it successful or not?

Also would love to hear about experiences with keeping bonded pairs.

Overall just share experiences, good or bad, and all things blenny!
 
My favourite is either a Starry, Midas or Tailspot. Hard to narrow it down but I'd love a small tank with a couple of comical blennies.
 
I have only had a tailspot. It was my absolute favorite fish thus far.

I would live to get a pair, but i hear they are hard to sex.

Anyways thus far, i am leaning to going extremely simple with my stock list in my 55g.

At this point i would be happy with a single pair of blennies. I think a pair of blennies without other fish to disrupt their behaviors would be extremely amusing.

Im nore interested in inverts and corals as is, but i think a simple pair of blennies would be a great addition of character and amusement.
 
I have had two Tail Spots and loved them. The first one lived for almost five years as a model citizen before he passed away. He slowly quit eating and whithered away...think it might have just been the end of its lifespan. The second one I had for a month or so before he began constantly grazing on my SPS...he had to be given to a LFS. Too bad they are one of my favorite fish. I love the recently released ORA Red Sea Mimic blenny but I have decided that ANY of the comb-toothed blennies are not reef safe for the most part, so wont be getting one. :sad2:

EDIT: More than one Blenny....99% chance it wont work unless you have a fairly large tank.
 
Moort82 said:
My favourite is either a Starry, Midas or Tailspot. Hard to narrow it down but I'd love a small tank with a couple of comical blennies.
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Bingo.
I've had all three together before, a wonderful circus of Blenny.
Still have the Starry, just a great fish.
 
I have had a midas a bicolor and tailspot but at different times..in my 46 bow but I am now leaning toward the tailspot because of size and temperment. I now have a yellow clown goby a green and red striped clown goby a neon goby and a twinspot sand sifting goby.
 
I had a rhino blenny for a while. He was awesome, all greeny and sort of leafy looking.
He eventually killed himself when he was startled by the cat. He raced around the tank a couple of times and then dived for a hole, but somehow managed to impale himself on a waspfish's 1/2" spines. I would not suggest that you keep blennies with longspine urchins or similar.
 
I had a tailspot blenny & loved it, great little fish. Used to sit on the mag float & watch me work, kissed the glass at me. One time he swam down quickly & bopped the randall on the head & took off before the goby knew what hit him lol.

I'm on the fence right now about another tailspot or a trio of barnacle blennies. It's turning out to be a really tough decision.
 
Im interested in hearing more responses as I am planning out my stock list right now, and I have little experience with blennies. They sure are cute!
 
I currently have (2) lawnmower, (3) Tailspot, (1) Bi Color, and 1 or 2 Barnacle Blennies. They are great little fish, lots of activity. Watching the tailspot and bicolor swim backwards into their little holes is always entertaining.

Dave B
 
I've had two tailspots and they both had great personality - far from shy and their comical faces make them my fave
 
Have had midas, lawnmower and starry blenny. All 3 had great personalities and were great additions except for the starry.... Bastards are aggressive... was the boss of the tank. Put my 4.5" hippo tang in the corner... killed my female clown and 5" diamond gobby.

After reading up on them it turns out the starry blenny is known for being aggressive.

The lawnmower was my favorite... great personality, active and peaceful. Same with the midas but midas' don't perch which was my favorite thing about the lawnmower/starry.
 
My starry blenny gets along great with my blue tang, royal gramma and purple firefish. No aggression ever. My flame angel ignored him too while it was in there. The wild thing is their chameleon ability to change color. I've seen him all white, totally black and with various amounts of spots. Very hardy too. I had to tear down my tank for a few days while I moved it. Thought I had lost him, but apparently he just hid in the rock when I pulled it out. After setting my tank back up, he came swimming out later that day! Love that fish.
 
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