Scooter blennies and copepods?

[TGIGreen]

Hi there.
Just wondering roughly how many copepods does my lil friend eat and how can I make a reliable food source for him? I don’t have a sump, nor space for one at this present moment, and going to my local fish shop can get rather expensive.

I have a 48L (12.6 gal) tank at the moment as I’m waiting for my 350L (92 gal) tank to establish. I have a scooter blenny in my small tank, along with 2 clowns, 3 hermit crabs and 4 bumblebee snails.

 

[christinna77]

Hey there. Your tank looks really new and unfortunately it's not ready to support a dragonet, especially with it being only 48L and still so immature.

These fish spend all day hunting for pods. You'll need to start adding pods as soon as possible, but buying them every week will get expensive fast. The best long term option would be to start your own pod culture. Basically, buy some pods, feed them phyto and give them time to breed. Until then you'll need to keep buying and dosing pods, and try to slowly train it to eat frozen/pellets.

This article might help you get started: https://www.reef2reef.com/ams/how-i...se-that-are-interested-in-doing-the-same.795/

This article is also useful: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/how-many-pods-for-a-mandarin.1102789/.

 

[vcnt]

Would also recommend looking into Phyto culturing for the pod cultures!
Many benefits of Phyotplankton

 

[Reef Jedi]

Hey there. Your tank looks really new and unfortunately it's not ready to support a dragonet, especially with it being only 48L and still so immature.

These fish spend all day hunting for pods. You'll need to start adding pods as soon as possible, but buying them every week will get expensive fast. The best long term option would be to start your own pod culture. Basically, buy some pods, feed them phyto and give them time to breed. Until then you'll need to keep buying and dosing pods, and try to slowly train it to eat frozen/pellets.

This article might help you get started: https://www.reef2reef.com/ams/how-i...se-that-are-interested-in-doing-the-same.795/

This article is also useful: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/how-many-pods-for-a-mandarin.1102789/.

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It’s only chance of survival is adding a bunch of pods immediately before it starves. I order my pods from Algae Barn. Get a couple jars and dump them in. It’s going to consume more than one jar just to get fat again. Then I would keep stocking the tank at least once a month until there’s a large pod population. When you turn off the lights at night and you see a huge swarm in the corner of the tank, then you know you have enough for a while.

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

You might want to consider re-homing it until you get your larger tank. If it eats only pods and nothing else then it won't last long, unfortunately I don't think its a good idea to spend a fortune on pods for one fish.