Scooter Blenny

[peytonquillen21]

Hi Reefers,

Yesterday I bought a Scooter Blenny!! Some people may prefer to call them a Mandarin. This little guy is one of a kind!:lmao: I love him! He has so much personality!! I Know that they are VERY VERY PICKY EATERS!! I have ordered live copepods for his diet! So this is my question once i receive the live copepods how do i go about adding them to my aquarium?? Also how often do i need to add them?
Thanks!

[peytonquillen21]

Any one?

[Al Kurtys]

i have a scooter but he feeds off my refugium which is a hob filter that modified and added chaeto and live rock rubble.

[small alien]

Get some frozen mysis and frozen cyclopeeze. I've kept 5 scooters and they've all taken to frozen immediately.

Put some in and turn off the flow for 15-20 minutes so it has a chance to pick the food off the bottom of the tank. It won't take food from the water column in general and it won't out compete vigorous feeders. But it's not as tough as the other dragonets. Feed it 2-3 times daily and you will be fine. No need to add live pods though that's always a fine if expensive thing to do.

Good luck.

[peytonquillen21]

Ok thanks Guys!

[TripleT]

Mine took to small sinking pellets immediately. Buy a few different kinds.

Great fish. Looks just like this one:

http://www.liveaquaria.com/images/categories/product/p-71822-red-scooter-blenny.jpg

If you have sand, watch him bury himself at night.

[snorvich]

Synchiropus ocellatus (scooter blenny) are also known as Scooter Dragonet or Ocellated Dragonet. They are, however, not mandarins

[wmatt140]

Second on the mysis and PE mysis. He once swiped a chunk of silverfish I was feeding to a brain and started doing the "death roll" with it trying to break a chunk off. Too bad the Green and Spotted Mandarin aren't this easy.

[Sgdodd16]

We just got a scooter blenny like that and we are curious as to what food you ended up using for him?

[injektion]

my scooter blenny took a few times to realize that i was feeding him food with frozen brine and mysis but is definitely one of the easiest dragonets to get to eat frozen. he doesn't like pellets though (kinda like a dog, once you get them to eat wet food they'll never go back to dry food lol)

[MaLi]

I have one for about a year now and he eats Spectrum pellets like there is no tomorrow. He is close to 4" now. Great personality and fun to watch fish.

cheers,
MaLi

[jasonrp104]

One of my favorite fish I've ever had. As said before, they eat frozen food fairly easily and are pretty much a trouble free fish.

Here's mine

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/2402/fotoflexerphoto1e.th.jpg (http://img88.imageshack.us/i/fotoflexerphoto1e.jpg/)

[TripleT]

Get a hunk of chaeto from a fellow reefer with a pest-free tank, or your favorite LFS.

Pods like to live in it, and it provides a good place for them to multiply. Put it in your sump/fuge if you can, or right in your display tank if needed.

Also try small sinking pellets, as they will have the best chance to wind up in front of your dragonet.

[Sgdodd16]

Thanks everyone for the hints. We feed our tank mysis shrimp so hopefully he will start eating that. We might also get a small thing of pellets and try that.

[small alien]

Turn off the flow when you feed so the food can settle to the bottom and the dragonet can pick at the food for 15-20 minutes. Feed 2-3 times daily.

[chimmike]

seems to me you'd want a well established, good sized system with a well established, pod-filled fuge in order to keep a scooter blenny happy and fat.........

[small alien]

Not necessarily. I kept a male scooter "Fat and happy" in a 10 gallon for well over a year before moving it to a larger tank.