bicolor blenny

[youngtimothy]

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

 

[thomasdo87]

yes..

 

[Azurel]

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]

doesnt sound to reef safe

 

[treylane]

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

 

[subielover]

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

 

[droblack]

Mine ate nice chalices and assorted others.

 

[Nate82]

really? I never had a problem with mine?

 

[Breakin Newz]

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]

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

 

[Coral Keeper]

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]

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]

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

 

[youngtimothy]

that settles it no bicolor thanks everyone.

 

[Mantid]

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]

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,