Looking forward to a Red Scooter Blenny

[Coffman34]

Hello all. I was in my LFS today and saw a beautiful Red Scooter Blenny in one of their tanks. I kinda figured from what I heard that they are very very picky eaters. So I figured I'd start now and work my way to up one. Here's some of my specs.

29g Bowfront
30g Sump
1/3 of the sump is a Refuge

I just purchased some cheato today from the LFS and got a pod package from them and placed both into my refuge, leaving my return off of the refuge so the pods could get settled in.

My tank is around 3 months old. I have a false perc and a royal gramma as well as fire shrimp, a couple nass. snails, and 4 turbo snails, 2 blue legged hermits, and 1 scarlet hermit.

My question is, did I do good in getting the pods going in the refuge now until I can get the scooter blenny in, o say, 5 months? Am I on the right track, or should I be doing something different.

 

[Duddly01]

Your on the right track. If it won't eat prepared foods though a 29gal. with a small refugium may not support him well when he get to adult size, but its close and may be okay. Cheato is the best for the pods, IME. Just start dosing the tank daily with live phyto to feed to pods and you'll probably be okay. DT is good. Dragonetts, which is what a scooter is, not a blenny. Why that name sticks I don't understand, but I degress. Unless you can find one that is eating prepared you have another 3 months I would estimate. Luckily scooters are the easiest of the dragonetts to find that eat prepared food like frozen mysis. Just ask your LFS to try them for you. I see scooters that are eating mysis almost every weekend, they really aren't that hard to find.

 

[papagimp]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9756932#post9756932 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Duddly01
Why that name sticks I don't understand, but I degress.

Marketing ploy, that's all it is. People seem to "know" not to get a mandarin, even if they don't listen, they still know this or figure it out quickly. But nobody thinks not to get a blenny.

fwiw, I kept my mandarin in a 29g when I first bought him, and even with a sump, I had to supplement pods monthly in the tank to support his feeding. They really need a larger tank, with lot's of rock, and a refugium. But if he'll eat mysis or anything prepared for that matter, than he should be fine. Best of luck, and if you think he's starving, find him a new home please.