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Just wondering if I can have a bi-color blenny along with a lawn mower blenny? The reason I am asking is my bi-color seems kind of aggressive to my hand.
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KarenB
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KarenB
I would say no, unless you have a really large tank.
And forgive me for asking, but what relation is it to being aggressive to your hand?
And forgive me for asking, but what relation is it to being aggressive to your hand?
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Sorry let me clear things up. I only have the one Bi-color blenny in my tank because I am in the hobby for the coral and not the fish. Anyways I do not know typically how aggressive blenny are except the fact that mine bites me every time I put my hand in the tank.
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KarenB
Thanks for clarifying. It sounds to me like he is very territorial, and in that case I would definitely not put another blenny in.
MarkieB
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Bi colors can be very territorial. I would not.
incysor
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jfben4 said:
Depends on the size of your tank. I've had a bi-color/lawnmower blenny combo in my 55, and my 75. They do chase each other occassionally, but not constantly. But not all that much more than the bi-color chases any other fish away from 'his' hole.
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I have a 35 gallon hex tank right now but I am wanting to get a 45 breeder. So I guess this is still to small to have the two?
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When I bought my bi-color blenny at VTF while Darryl was there, he said that you CANNOT add any other blennies to the tank if you have a bi-color, but gobies and other fish are okay.
incysor
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Isis said:
For the most part I thought/think that Darryl knows his stuff, however I heard him on more than one occasion tell people about how agressive
bi-color blennies are and how they'd nip at corals and clams. My experience is totally different. The only time the bi-color is agressive with other fish is when they get too close to his hole. At which point he chases them away from it, and goes back to it and sits in it. I've never seen one chase another fish repeatedly, or continuously. I've never seen it pick at corals, or clams. It will eat algae, so if you have algae growing next to corals/clams I suppose it could look like it was nipping at them.
In my 55 I had a bi-color, and a lawnmower. In the 75 I have a bi-color, lawnmower and one of these.
http://liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Display.cfm?pCatId=2105
The bi-color definitely reacted stronger to the black and yellow blenny, but after a couple hours everyone settled down and they've been fine for a couple weeks now.
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incysor
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jfben4 said:
I would skip pairing them up in the 35. I would try it with the 45, but I'd add the new fish during the move. That way neither will have a territory already staked out.
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My bi-color definitely doesn't nip at corals, but he gets upset when my urchin or hermits get any where near "his spot". Since the hermies are so small, he sill pick them up and throw them down to the bottom of the tank. When the urching comes on by, he will pull on the spines to aggitate the urchin so it will move away. As for my fish, I haven't ever seen him bother my chromis, but he did nip me once when I was trying to adjust a coral frag.
