Komohara blennies

[Triggreef]

Anyone have luck with these? I have a pair from liveaquaria (ora) and they seem fatty and happy but I have yet to see them eat anything. I feed a good mix of frozen and pellet but they show zero interest in anything. They seem to look at the rocks a fair amount, I assume they are eating pods. It's only a 125g they are in so i would not think pods will sustain them both for very long. I would think ora must have been feeding pellets or frozen?

I've tried several mysis types, brine, frozen clams and Larry's reef frenzy. No go with any of it. It's been about a week.

http://m.liveaquaria.com/product/3576/?pcatid=3576

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

I had mine for a while. It jumped sadly.

They’re pickers. They hunt off the rocks so we wound up just making sure there was food on the bottom and on the rocks. They liked the sinking pellets and most frozen.
Took a awhile to get it used to the tank.

 

[Triggreef]

Interesting. You'd think captive breed, they would know how to eat. Mine are fairly large to probly close to 3 inches.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Wow those are big! Mine was 2 in.

Lol. They had a million years to learn it. We’re the ones with issues.

They don’t eat from the mid water Is all.
Once mine got used to the turkey baster he’d swim over though.

 

[Triggreef]

still no luck. Tried a chopped clam on half shell today too. They are very different fish. Odd.

 

[Triggreef]

So today is the first time I saw one of them actually eat. He followed a large chunk of reef frenzy frozen food to the bottom. Looked it over for about 45 seconds, and grabbed it and swam off with it. very odd fish.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Totally odd fish. Loved it. Like a mini barracuda or dragon

 

[Zack K]

My canary Blenny (in the same family) was also a big tricky eater. He took to live food, but I agree with Salty, they don’t really eat from the water Column until they know what the turkey Baster is, then you created a beast. Mine is always the first one to the surface. Very personable fish.

 

[rkpetersen]

I bought a pair from LiveAquaria. Seemed perfectly happy, active, not harrassed by other fish, but they never touched anything I fed the tank, and I tried so many different things. Frozen, refrigerated, pellets, more than a dozen different products, as well as my own custom seafood blend. And that includes feeding from a baster (Julian's thing), which is my usual procedure. But they're just swimming around, lah de dah, ignoring the food while the other fish eat ravenously. Eventually both died of starvation. A couple months later, my LFS had some in. I told the employee that if I saw them eat, I'd buy a couple. He put some food in their tank; they ignored it. I like their look and swimming behavior but if they can't compete for food just a little bit, they have no place in my tank. (My Canary Blenny, Hi Fin Gobies, and Orange Spot Goby are not the most competitive eaters but they get enough to stay fat and happy.)

 

[trio91]

i have one...hes been with me for some time and pretty much eats anything, excuse the ugliness in my tank....he sleeps inside my leather coral

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

i have one...hes been with me for some time and pretty much eats anything, excuse the ugliness in my tank....he sleeps inside my leather coral

That’s cute. Mine slept at night in an upper Front corner , and one night after lights out , jumped out of the tank when I closed the door to the house. I put a tube glued to a magnet in that he wound up liking.

My other fanged blenny sleeps in one in the other tank now.

 

[trio91]

im not sure why he does it, but he's there every night....i picked him up at a Petco of all places about a yr+ ago....pellets, flakes, frozen he takes it all

 

[Triggreef]

Nice, there is hope. Not sure I'm believing LA sent me captive bred blennies like i purchased, at this point though. If they were captive bred I wouldn't have to teach them how to eat. Booo LA for this.

 

[rkpetersen]

The ones I got from LA were supposedly captive bred from ORA. That's the same source my LFS gets theirs from. I've looked up what ORA states that they feed their fish to grow them to selling size, but the komoharas ignored that food just like everything else. It's strange.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

The ones I got from LA were supposedly captive bred from ORA. That's the same source my LFS gets theirs from. I've looked up what ORA states that they feed their fish to grow them to selling size, but the komoharas ignored that food just like everything else. It's strange.

We talked to folks at Ora at macna.
They hunt and grab the food from the bottom and rocks like n nature.

They do each have funny personalities. And yea it took a while till mine fell in love with the turkey baster. Never really cought food from the water colum till it got the hang of that.

Dang. I may have to order one now.

 

[trio91]

i have a feeding ring which he plucks food from, i dunno why my guy is so weird

i think hes a cool fish @saltyfilmfolks , he reminds me of an eel they way he stalks his food before eat chows down

 

[Rottinggore]

Mine took about a week to start eating frozen. I just feed him reef frenzy. He thinks my toadstool is his couch.

 

[Robink]

I have one also from LA, he eats frozen anything. Does not eat pellets. He was able to eat slowly in qt, once added to the dt he had to learn to be quick because of all the pigs in there. He does like to inspect the piece of food and then jerk it around to break it up into smaller pieces to eat. Very cool fish. He's about 3 inches long.

 

[Triggreef]

The 2 i have are vey different from each other. The one that is now eating will swim around almost constantly liking for food and Congress to the front when I look at the tank now too beg for food. The other one sits around in various spots, mostly in a old powerhead that I never removed. And stillI haven't seen him eat. But he does come out when i feed. Lucky for them both there isn't much competition for food.

 

[Triggreef]