Scooter Blenny
Scooter Blenny
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We do not take backorders on live fish, invertebrates or plants. Livestock arrives on the shipping schedule our suppliers and the weather allow, so we will not promise a date we cannot keep.
What is in the tanks changes from week to week. Ask us and we will tell you what is in and what is coming, or check back shortly. Visit us or get in touch.
Free local pickup at our Lethbridge store. Livestock guarantee
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The scooter blenny (Synchiropus ocellatus) is not a blenny at all — it is a dragonet, closely related to the mandarin, mottled in browns and greys with a sail-like dorsal fin that males raise in display. It spends its day hopping across sand and rock, picking at the surface with small deliberate movements, and its camouflage is good enough that it can be hard to find until it moves.
Aquarium care
- Adults reach roughly 7 to 9 cm.
- Feeds by hunting live copepods and other small invertebrates off the substrate.
- Some individuals learn to take frozen food, but many never do. Do not count on it.
- Needs a mature aquarium with live rock, sand and an established pod population.
- Peaceful and slow moving; easily outcompeted at feeding time.
- Does not harm corals or ornamental invertebrates.
It suits an established reef with a refugium or plenty of rock surface to keep producing food, and calm tankmates that are not themselves efficient pod hunters. It is a poor choice for a young, sparsely stocked or heavily scrubbed system. Ask our staff whether the individual in stock has been seen taking prepared food.
Stock rotates with each shipment, and livestock is available for local pickup at our Lethbridge store. See the saltwater fish collection.
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