I went out of town for a few days and returned to find the 3" Desjardini eating hair algae. The canary blenny disappeared in my absence, unfortunately. Slowly but surely the hair algae is retreating from my tank. A combo of small refugium, less feeding, more water changes, and daily basting of the rock seems to be doing the trick. And of course the tang.
unless you are able to feed your tank freguently, most bleenies well starve as they have a hard time getting enough out of the sandbed and the rock
This is very true about blennies and dragonets. If I am planning onpurchasing one of these, I will let the LFS know that I'm interested.When they get one in, I make sure "they" have it eating before I eventake it home. If you don't do this you have to keep the small blenniesin a small tank without competition and train them to eat frozen,pellet, flake food. But you still run the risk. I feed with hemostatsso I can get the food right in front of them. The dragonets and largerblennies do not do well in small tanks because, like fishermann said,the tank can not support them. The only blennies that will do well inthe smaller tanks are the scooter blenny (which is a dragonet), blue& gold, barnacle and others that get 1-2" in length. Most of theseare in the ecsenius famliy. Sounds like your tank has plenty ofpods ~ now just to match a blenny to your size of tank. Do remember ~Lawnmowers, Starries and such are jumpers. I had to put a smallportions of eggcrate along the length of my calfo (not to cover thewhole top, just near the over flow). Before that I was rescuing myStarry at least twice a week. Glad I have a canopy to stop jumping inthe front. Hope this is helpful and not too much information.
