LittlePuff
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Would there be a problem keeping one with a midas or bicolor blenny, a couple clownfish, possible clown or YWG . and a saddled toby?
Scooter blenny
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LittlePuff
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I don't suspect you would have any problems - only potentially if you consider adding more dragonets down the line, you will have to make sure they are not both males.
I have scooters with female mandarin, gobies, blenny, wrasses, pipefish.
The gobies are slightly territorial, but they just warn the dragonet and he'll scuttle off. They're fun to watch. good luck with yours.
I have scooters with female mandarin, gobies, blenny, wrasses, pipefish.
The gobies are slightly territorial, but they just warn the dragonet and he'll scuttle off. They're fun to watch. good luck with yours.
Angel*Fish
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Everyone seems to be scooting around the issue 
I'll just come right out and ask if you know that these are not blennies at all and have the same feeding requirements as any other dragonet or mandarin. It would be best to wait until the 90 is up witha well established pod population.
I'll just come right out and ask if you know that these are not blennies at all and have the same feeding requirements as any other dragonet or mandarin. It would be best to wait until the 90 is up witha well established pod population.
Moort82
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Everyone seems to be scooting around the issue
That's what i was hinting at with if you can feed it. I hate the way they are called scooter blennies as most people assume blennies are easy to keep.
Most fish ignore these guys.
Compatibility problems can come from having other fish that eat all food before the dragonet has a chance to get any.
Do you have a QT? You'll want to QT him for a while so you can experiment with different foods, and find out what he'll accept, without any competition.
Mine eats mysis if it reaches him, and small sinking pellets. But I think the mainstay of his diet has become pods as my tank has become more heavily populated with pods over the last year.
Compatibility problems can come from having other fish that eat all food before the dragonet has a chance to get any.
Do you have a QT? You'll want to QT him for a while so you can experiment with different foods, and find out what he'll accept, without any competition.
Mine eats mysis if it reaches him, and small sinking pellets. But I think the mainstay of his diet has become pods as my tank has become more heavily populated with pods over the last year.
jasonrp104
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Mine lives with 2 maroons without problems. IMO, they are the easiest Dragonettes to get on frozen food. Mine will eat anything but flake food and I put no effort into getting it that way. I'd make sure you have a healthy pod population first, just in case there is a problem.
israel.kendall
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I almost fell for this too. Almost bought one for my very young 55 gallon tank thinking it was an easy fish.
israel.kendall
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See what you did there, clever! :lmao:
LittlePuff
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I knew they were dragonets, but a bit easier to feed than mandarins. I've heard to spot feed them. Does it matter the order or are they ignored altogether?
Waco Pilot
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We have a Scooter in our 75g. He is the first fish we purchased as I had had them before many years ago. He is doing great living with a Tiger Goby, Pink Spot Goby, Randall's Goby, Firefish, Queen Anthias, Six-line Wrasse and Carpenter's Wrasse. We do hand feed him with brine to ensure he gets food and add live Copepods every few weeks. Quite the little character and enjoyable to watch. No one bothers him.
small alien
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They're much easier to feed than the other mandarins. I've had a number of them and they all took frozen with vigor and had great body weight on two daily feedings with no flow for 1/2 hour each time so they can pick off the bottom. Was my very first saltwater fish.
Angel*Fish
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I know what you mean I'll always have a special place in my heart for my first --long nosed hawkfish (not counting the damsels which the LFS told me was my only choice for cycling).
But you're saying feeding them if there's not enough pods requires time and commitment. That sounds like a major pita to me and choice of tank mates will be a more difficult issue (assuming he will take the food). Not that there's anything wrong with having a fish that's a pita to feed, just that you sure want to think it out carefully before going this route.
I have a pair of mated clown gobies, and a bicolor blenny, that are very territorial at times. But when my red dragonet gets near them, they could care less. It's very interesting to see.
I think the most significant role that order plays is the dragonet will benefit from having no competition for food at first. And this can be accomplished in QT. This can be said of most fish, but more so for a fish like a dragonet that likes to approach his meals slowly and stealthily.
And of course, you don't want to have a dragonet in a tank with larger aggressive species. Rather than ignore him, they may decide to make a meal out of him.
israel.kendall
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Other fish will eat them? I thought they had a toxic slime and other fish didn't bother them for this reason? If its eaten by another fish will the slime kill the predator fish as well?
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All bets are off in a closed system with limited food sources, and often less than ideal tank size.
I'm sure it may be possible for them to coexist without incident, but I would consider the slime coat a deterrent rather than a guarantee.
For example, I'm not sure I'd trust a growing trigger, especially if I was stuck somewhere and unable to feed my tank on schedule.
As far as killing a predator fish, I'm guessing one bite may be enough to prevent a second, and not enough to kill most predators.
In any case, for this thread, I don't think the original poster was considering larger predatory fish.
small alien
The fungus is among us.
Totally spot on there. Think it over.
I jumped head first into the world of hard to feed fish with my very first fish. And I didn't really realize it until after the purchase. But I enjoyed the challenge and have continued to be fascinated by dragonets, pipefish, filefish, etc. ever since. I think that, really, scooters are not that hard. But you have to pay attention to how you feed and you have to observe your fish to see if they're getting enough and maintaining their body weight. I used to turkey baster mine but after a while I found that, as long as I put in enough food that plenty sunk to the bottom and then left the flow off for a while while they pick, that worked fine. It's pretty easy to gauge your dragonet's body weight. Much easier than pipefish!:clown:
Good luck. Scooters are awesome fish.
