chocolates mom
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Can I keep more than one of these in my 55 gallon tank? Will they eat algae off the bottom?
Skooter Blennies
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No, alas. They're not really blennies. They're dragonets, and, like mandarins, eat only pods. They are a little more ready than mandarins to be persuaded to eat something other than pods, but make the fish store prove it. If you have a functioning refugium, one might be ok, with another later, after the pod population has held up to the single.
chocolates mom
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Ok newbie question, can you buy pods to feed them?
Yes. I use www.reefnutrition.com
Ask for Kathy. She's great.
It costs 60.00 for 4 bottles of pods to be shipped, and a bit more for Phytofeast to feed the pods. I'd just dump all the pods in at once, or reserve one bottle and dump it in the refugium [mine consists of one chamber of cheato in the sump with a light] and feed it. I keep a mandarin and have to supplement just now and again, about every 6 weeks. Scooters tend to be smaller, and will adapt possibly to tiny sinking pellets. Your problem would be being in Canada, and you'd have to contact the company and see if they can ship to you and get them there in a timely fashion. You might also find a local store that actually stocks them. They're called Tigger-pods, the brand name, but they're just nice fat copepods. YOu might also try just building up your pods by feeding phyto daily.
Taking a close look at your fish list, however, there is one fly in the ointment, so to speak. Your six-line can clean out pods faster than the scooter can. You might have to choose, on that.
Ask for Kathy. She's great.
It costs 60.00 for 4 bottles of pods to be shipped, and a bit more for Phytofeast to feed the pods. I'd just dump all the pods in at once, or reserve one bottle and dump it in the refugium [mine consists of one chamber of cheato in the sump with a light] and feed it. I keep a mandarin and have to supplement just now and again, about every 6 weeks. Scooters tend to be smaller, and will adapt possibly to tiny sinking pellets. Your problem would be being in Canada, and you'd have to contact the company and see if they can ship to you and get them there in a timely fashion. You might also find a local store that actually stocks them. They're called Tigger-pods, the brand name, but they're just nice fat copepods. YOu might also try just building up your pods by feeding phyto daily.
Taking a close look at your fish list, however, there is one fly in the ointment, so to speak. Your six-line can clean out pods faster than the scooter can. You might have to choose, on that.
chocolates mom
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Thanks SK8r I am feeding Phytoplankton every 3 days to my 2 mushrooms. Will this help, how much should I use?
And it really helps when they're healthy as they adapt.
Thank you, R33f3r, for reminding me to say something that I've been meaning to say online for some time: you don't get a half-starved fish and offer him something he hardly recognizes as food and get him to change what he eats. He'll likely just starve to death sitting right next to food.
The fish that will more readily switch foods is the fat and healthy one who is eating enthusiastically, pigs out habitually, and who just gets something new in front of himthat other fish are eating: call him an optimist---he goes for it, it tastes ok, and he may remember that the next time it hits the tank.
Why one fish in the latter condition will switch foods and another absolutely won't is a mystery of reefing. But it sure helps when they do!
Thank you, R33f3r, for reminding me to say something that I've been meaning to say online for some time: you don't get a half-starved fish and offer him something he hardly recognizes as food and get him to change what he eats. He'll likely just starve to death sitting right next to food.
The fish that will more readily switch foods is the fat and healthy one who is eating enthusiastically, pigs out habitually, and who just gets something new in front of himthat other fish are eating: call him an optimist---he goes for it, it tastes ok, and he may remember that the next time it hits the tank.
Why one fish in the latter condition will switch foods and another absolutely won't is a mystery of reefing. But it sure helps when they do!
