what to feed lawnmower blenny?

[jiggy]

theres nomore algae in my tank and my lawnmower blenny is starving. what do i feed it? wont touch anything i feed my fish, including flake food.

 

[EdKruzel]

Many hobbyists place a small flat piece of LR or ceramic tile in container with saltwater and place it in the window.

When a good crop of hair algae grows on the rock/tile, simply place it in the tank.

Ed

 

[Kabong]

Try some nori from your local grocery star.

 

[saltycreefer]

probably a bad fish

 

[yoboyjdizz]

Re: what to feed lawnmower blenny?

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8161313#post8161313 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jiggy
theres nomore algae in my tank and my lawnmower blenny is starving. what do i feed it? wont touch anything i feed my fish, including flake food.

Once its gets hungry enough it will lean towards flakes or nori sheets... I have had two and both took a few months before they started eating. I have heard though of them starving to death.
How long has the tank been set up?

 

[Sk8r]

Borrow an algaed rock from your lfs, promising to return it clean. He might take to macroalgae as a stopgap, but probably not caulerpa, which is mildly poisonous.

 

[jiggy]

tank has been set upfor a year.. i bought the blennyu at about 1.5-2 inches.. now its 3.5-4 inches its always been fat, but now that i have no algae its skinny.

 

[Sk8r]

It's also very hard to get a starving fish to change diets: a fat one is likelier to have a bigger appetite. The only fishfood that might tempt him is pure spirulina flake.

 

[jjmg]

I agree with EdKruzel, this fish likes to eat algea, give it to him. Also good for tanks with lots of tangs.

 

[Cristi]

My lawnmower blenny eats frozen Formula 2. He cleaned my tank after 3 weeks of having him and he immediately took to the frozen Forumla 2 after all the algae was gone. I tried nori and seaweed sheets, but he has never taken to them.
Cristi

 

[BTTRFLYGRL]

I had one that would eat the algae sheets with the Tangs