Midas blenny vs canary blenny

[Gtinnel]

Interesting....I thought it was so odd mine started doing that, he used to back into a hole in a rock forever (2+years) ...and then all of a sudden one night I saw him do the same into the monti. I kinda laughed to myself because I thought it was because he wanted to be first in line for food in the morning, since my monti is at the top of the reef, and the rock he used to sleep in was in the back on the bottom...

So cool yours does it too!!
Anybody else notice this??

Mine used to sleep on my monti, he has since moved to the other side of my tank and has a perch on the rocks that isn't near a monti.

 

[blazn]

Midas blenny is one of my 'must have' fish! Always active, never shy but doesn't bully, different swimming movement and definitely more personality than 90%+ of other fish.

 

[doesitwork]

Midas are only dark if stressed out. My Midas is always bright orange/yellow.

 

[doesitwork]

Get a Midas. They are long beautiful swimmers. Mine is always bright orange/yellow. They are only brown if stressed..

 

[drukkosz]

Can you keep both? Or will they fight?

 

[Zach B]

Midas sure are pretty but my canary is quite the character. Sleeps on walls, magnet cleaners & hunts pods all day :)

 

[Goaway]

It's not fair, my midas blenny was a demon monster. I am not kidding. Wish I had videos. When I had my midas, nipped fins on all the fish. I had 2 clowns and pintail wrasse. Pintail would get revenge by pecking at the midas when the midas went to his cubby.

The right lighting the midas is a very beautiful fish. They are rather orange under blues. Add in a little red spectrum and it's really something else. I don't think you'll be able to do that with a canary blenny. I also don't have photos to show the difference of reef lighting with the midas, I may try another one sometime down the road. I do miss the jerk.

When I got my foxface, my midas found a place to jump through the aquarium cover. No idea what took place to make him decide to do that. He mostly stuck to a burrow in a rock.

 

[Fredinva]

Love my canary and I'm going to get the first Midas my LFS gets in. Both will be in my 30 Fiji Cube. If they don't get along, one goes to the 125 Fowlr.

 

[jt8791]

Canary blennies are available captive bred from Ora. Would love to see them start breeding Midas blenny in captivity. I haven’t had either but have been debating on a captive bred blenny for a while.

 

[maleks.reef]

After long research, i've decided to go with the canary, mainly because it will stay consistently yellow, which is why I wanted one of those fish in the first place. Now lets hope i find it here where I live :)