My scooter Blenny is loosing weight

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I don't think I have enough copepods for this guy and I am concerned. The scooter is alert and moving continuously to find food. But I definitely think it is loosing the battle because it is getting thinner. I've had him for perhaps 2 months now.

My tank is 55 ga with a sump and refugium. The refugium is just cheato with no substrate and no live rock. Cheato is growing steadily.

I have about 75lbs of live rock and about 1.5 inches of sand in my display tank. I also have a lawnmower blenny, two chromis, five peppermint shrimp, three emeral crabs, several smallish coral frags.

I've had the tank up and running with 50 lbs of rock and the substrate for a year. Added the fuge about 3 months ago. Added the remaining rock about 2 weeks ago. I used to see small copepods on the glass with my 10x loop, but now I see none. I don't think they have ever been big enough to be visible with my naked eye.

Any short term or long term advice? I will give this guy up to someone who can take care of him if I can't provide it what it needs.
 
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Thanks. I will try this. I feed with frozen mysis already. I'll try to find a container that will protect it so my chromis doesn't get to it before my scooter. I'll report back.

Has anyone had any experience with "AlgaGen ReefPods". I saw a product review that was glowing, but I don't fully trust that.
 
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saltysweet1

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I have had my scooter blenny for about two months. He is getting fat. I love that little guy. I was lucky enough that he eats frozen food. In the mornings when I get up the blenny is swimming all over the top of the tank with the rest of my fish. I drop in the food and the blenny will chase down the cube and eat as much of it as he can before my angels get to it. It's a sight to see. I must have him spoiled cause he will always swim up to the glass when ever I walk up to the tank
 
trackfast

trackfast

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I heard of another reefer that had a Mandarin that was losing weight. What he started to do was switch a rock from his sump with one in his DT every few days. He thought the pods would repopulate in the rock during its time in the sump. You wouldn't have to completely rely on the return pump to get pods back into the DT.
 
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Thaks for the advice. I'll try the dip and the swapping of the rocks from the refugium.

My blenny is still moving around a lot. I think it is starting to find more to eat even though I cannot see what it is eating even with my x10 loop. I conclude it's eating cause it dips its head to a surface and gulps something and its mouth opens and swallows I think.

It is not interactive with me at all. Wish it was. But I love him anyway. I got him from the LFS that way. Perhaps that's its pesonality or perhaps once it starts to eat more it will relax and take it all in. Two weeks ago I started to feed the tank with Brightwell phyto green (I think it's called) hoping to feed the copepods and maybe the corals. Maybe that's why there is apparently more for it to eat.
 
javiersito91

javiersito91

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trackfast said:
I heard of another reefer that had a Mandarin that was losing weight. What he started to do was switch a rock from his sump with one in his DT every few days. He thought the pods would repopulate in the rock during its time in the sump. You wouldn't have to completely rely on the return pump to get pods back into the DT.
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Idk if vic is refering to me since i told him this one time he came over
this is the treatment i use now you got to make sure there is pods in ur fuge for this to work get some cheato(if u dont have some already) and put a small rock with lotsthe of pores i saw changes within a week try using two rocks to rotate them
 
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