How to fatten up a lawnmower blenny?

foshizzle · 04/27/2007, 01:53 PM

I've bought a large, but very skinny lawnmower blenny a few months ago. He eats anything and everything, but hasn't put on much weight.

Any particular foods/strains of algae I should try feeding him to fatten him up? Looking for something more specific than just "give him some algae"

Travis L. Stevens · 04/27/2007, 02:00 PM

Make sure that its feces isn't white and stringy. It could have internal parasites.

foshizzle · 04/27/2007, 03:16 PM

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Originally posted by Travis L. Stevens
Make sure that its feces isn't white and stringy. It could have internal parasites.

and if it does what's the treatment?

navipro1 · 04/27/2007, 07:06 PM

metrodizole, something like that, poor speller, quarantine it in another tank.

Roy G. Biv · 04/27/2007, 07:10 PM

Let your nitrates get way high and food will magically grow for him

Aquabucket · 04/27/2007, 07:10 PM

Sheets of Nori should fatten him up good.

04/27/2007, 01:53 PM	#1
foshizzle Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 483	How to fatten up a lawnmower blenny? I've bought a large, but very skinny lawnmower blenny a few months ago. He eats anything and everything, but hasn't put on much weight. Any particular foods/strains of algae I should try feeding him to fatten him up? Looking for something more specific than just "give him some algae"

04/27/2007, 02:00 PM	#2
Travis L. Stevens Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Perry, OK Posts: 13,946	Make sure that its feces isn't white and stringy. It could have internal parasites. __________________ Travis Stevens Current Tank Info: Restarting 28g Bowfront

04/27/2007, 07:06 PM	#4
navipro1 Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: sac, CA Posts: 335	metrodizole, something like that, poor speller, quarantine it in another tank. __________________ I don't know nothing. Current Tank Info: Reef/Fish= $$ pit---just fill her up with everything but copper.

04/27/2007, 07:10 PM	#6
Aquabucket Premium Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Green Bay, Wi. Posts: 4,455	Sheets of Nori should fatten him up good. __________________ "Just a drop in the bucket"

04/27/2007, 07:10 PM	#5
Roy G. Biv Premium Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: New Jersey Posts: 3,646	Let your nitrates get way high and food will magically grow for him