lawnmower blenny starving?

[Meshmez]

kinda hard to see in the pic, but where he used to have a nice big belly (right behind his gills) he seems to be all "skin n bones" now... is this normal? should i try to catch him and put him in my sump so he has more algae to eat?

[jc-reef]

Try feeding some nori sheets....if you have a mag clip you can move it close to the blenny.

Mine is a pig and eats everything I feed my tank with (frozen, flake, nori, cyclopeeze)

[markster33139]

Mine too eats frozen mysis, bloodworms etc.

[DustinB]

I had one for a year until he jumped. I used to feed him the Hikari Algae Wafers for freshwater fish. He was fat and happy.

[PoeticInjustice]

yeah, he looks thin.

[coralnut99]

try feeding some nori sheets....if you have a mag clip you can move it close to the blenny.

Mine is a pig and eats everything i feed my tank with (frozen, flake, nori, cyclopeeze)+1 If you don't have a clip, wrap a piece of nori around a small piece of rock or anything that will sink with a rubber band to hold it on the rock.

[Nanook]

Take a small piece of Nori and rubberband it to a small rock and he will go crazy.

[Meshmez]

Ok ill give it a shot. I never thought I would have the issue of NOT enough algae...

[thomasp123]

I had one starve to death. Some of them just won't eat no matter what you give him. I tried nori red green and brown sheets. I tried live gracillaria and all the different algaes at my lfs and nothing.

[jason2459]

My Starry Blenny loves algae wafers. Something else to try out.

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[DustinB]

Mine wouldn't eat the sheets either, surprisingly he attacked the algae wafers.

[dogstar74]

I switched to Formula 2 flakes, they come in the green container, and contain more algae. My clowns love it, and the blenny would wolf it down.

[Khemul]

I've found it works best to tie them to a rock, since they don't always go for it hanging.

You could also try growing algae yourself. A container filled with tank water set somewhere that gets direct sunlight. Make sure there are plenty of nutrients (feed the container). Unfortunately it is may not be a quick enough solution if the blenny is starving.


Personally I found the best way to get my Lawnmower Blenny to open his mind to other food-types was to introduce him to a Starry Blenny. The Starry was less picky, and the Lawnmower Blenny would get upset when he saw it eating, so he'd eat too. But that is a tricky stocking to work out and may not work in all tanks.