bicolor blenny

youngtimothy · Jun 12, 2009

do they eat nuisance Algae? I know lawn mower blenny's do but do bicoloreds

thomasdo87 · Jun 12, 2009

yes..

Azurel · Jun 13, 2009

I had one it would eat a bunch of differant algeas but it also ate a whole football size colony of long stem anthalia....

youngtimothy · Jun 13, 2009

doesnt sound to reef safe

treylane · Jun 13, 2009

second the coral-eating concern. had one that ate all the encrusting corals off my nice TBS live rock.

subielover · Jun 13, 2009

+2 had one that got a taste for duncans. Back to the lfs he went. Nice looking fish though.

droblack · Jun 13, 2009

Mine ate nice chalices and assorted others.

Nate82 · Jun 13, 2009

really? I never had a problem with mine?

Breakin Newz · Jun 13, 2009

Mine also was biting the polyps off my sps, I also saw him bite my radiant wrasse and his scales went everywhere, got rid of hmm

jlt23 · Jun 13, 2009

Mine killed my purple firefish. You could see his mouth marks all over his body.

Coral Keeper · Jun 13, 2009

I used to have a Blenny in my 28 gallon SPS/LPS dominated reef and he almost whipped out 90% of my SPS/LPS!! At first I thought my SPS/LPS were dieing cuz of a water quality problem, then I caught the Blenny red handed nipping at my SPS/LPS!!:sad: Back to the LFS he went.

ficklefins · Jun 13, 2009

I've had mixed results with a bicolor as well. If you want something with more color and is reef safe check out the tail spot blenny.

starfish · Jun 13, 2009

They will also kill coco worms for their tubes!!!! which they love to live in.

youngtimothy · Jun 13, 2009

that settles it no bicolor thanks everyone.

Mantid · Jun 13, 2009

Azurel said:
I had one it would eat a bunch of differant algeas but it also ate a whole football size colony of long stem anthalia....

I wish my bicolor blenny would eat my anthalia! I cant get it to stop overgrowing my other corals. I have never had a problem with a bicolor blenny before.

Yellowtang · Jun 13, 2009

youngtimothy said:
do they eat nuisance Algae? I know lawn mower blenny's do but do bicoloreds

I've seen lawnmower blenny's die of starvation in a 100 gallon tank filled with 4 inch algae over every square inch of rock in the tank so don't bet on a lawnmower doing the job either.

JR,