Hungry Blenny

[anotherfishname]

Hi. I have a lawn mower Blenny but he's running low on food. 24 gallon nanocube and he's eaten everything in sight. Starting to get skinny and I'm afraid he's gonna starve. Any advice?

 

[melosu58]

That`s one of the problems with getting livestock to take care of algea problems is that they end up starving. Try some dried seaweed and see if it helps.

 

[anotherfishname]

Thanks Mike, I'll try that. If it doesn't work I guess he's going back to the lfs.

 

[melosu58]

Also supposedly soaking food in garlic stimulates feeding.

 

[anotherfishname]

Sorry, I don't understand what you mean by that. Soaking what kind of food?

 

[melosu58]

Soak whatever food you feed in garlic oil or they even have some garlic products out there in the aquarium trade.

 

[spikey]

My lawn mower takes the dry medium pellets! I was lucky that I did not need to encourage him to do it (soak in garlic). I have him in a 14g tank. The other think I find he eats is a muscle (shell fish). I place it at the bottom of the tank and away he goes.

 

[anotherfishname]

Thanks! Pelets in garlic power worked great. I'm glad I was able to keep and save him

 

[melosu58]

So are we. Great job.

 

[divedeep1689]

Congrats something mine eats tho is dried sea wead sheets from ocean nutrition my tang loves it too