liveaquaria says a scooter blenny is difficult to keep...

[widmer]

Due to their feeding habits. But my LFS has a tank full of healthy ones for $15 each. I have a 40 breeder with 1/2" fine sand bed, a coral beauty angel and a blue/green chromis. Do you think I'd be ok with one?

[Spartanman22]

scooter blennies are in the same family as mandarins. They are dragonetts and feed off of pods and other micro fauna

[widmer]

What are the chances it would transition to the frozen "meaty" food that I feed my fish? Plenty of that stuff makes it down to the sand bed before the fish get it.

[nikon187]

60/40.. all the ones at the store end up eating brine and mysis but they still need a good pod population to survive long term ( JUst like madarine gobies) Both scooters and mandarines are both dragonets

[slumpysix]

sadly, I have lost 2 and won't try again. I don't think my pod population was mature enough the first time and the second time it started eating frozen mysis. "but" it was slow at getting food and I should have maybe fed it by itself. By the time it was eating frozen food, it was too late.