Scooter Blenny

unimike · 08/30/2006, 10:11 AM

For past 5 months my blenny always active swimming around the tank while the light is on and goes to sleep shortly after the light goes off. Today, the light have been on for a good 2 hours and it have not really roamed around and stayed still...he's still breathing...should I get concerned ?

I just did the 4 gallons water change 2 days ago and the parameters from yesterday are:

Ammonia 0.25 (A possible cause from this?)
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 10
SG 1.025
Temperture 80F

rkelman · 08/30/2006, 11:21 AM

I wouldn't worry too much. .. I have one too. His habits are irratic.
That ammonia isn't bad but it should be 0. I'd get to work right away at getting that back to 0. Especially in a 30gal it could get bad fast.

theop · 08/30/2006, 11:42 AM

I'd be very concerned with that ammonia reading.

First, a water change SHOULD NOT give you an ammonia spike... figure out what is going on.

Second, that is enough ammonia to stress your fish. You should get rid of it with something like Seachem Prime and/or water changes.

unimike · 08/30/2006, 05:03 PM

I just did another water change today and it was 2 gallons this time and the water change was done at 10:30am and the ammonia reading test was done like 10 mins ago and it still stands at 0.25

unimike · 08/30/2006, 05:04 PM

I am concerned already because the blenny has not moved around very much...very slight activity from him today.

unimike · 08/31/2006, 07:02 PM

update:

I have taken a sample of the tank water to LFS today and their parameters reading was different than what I had right before I took it to LFS:

My reading right before I took a sample of water to LFS:
pH 8.0
Ammonia 0.25
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 10

Their reading:
pH 7.8
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 10

I buffered the freshwater that I purchased from LFS with the Searchem Marine Buffer then mixed the salt into the jugs. I have done another 2 gallon water change today...in couple of hours, the pH reading now reads at 8.2 however the blenny wasn't showing the normal activity so today I tried a new trick...I thawed out 4 cubes of frozen bristle shrimps...while its thawing, I pitched in a pitchful of flakes to feed my school of greedy green chormis. Once the cubes were thawed out I mixed in the tank's water and fed my clowns and PJ cardinals until they are full so I could focus in feeding my bleeny...I aimed the turkey baster onto the bleeny's area...within seconds he sees the food and begun eating...I fed him 2 cubes worth of bristle shrimps!! Boy he must be straving and now he is back being normal self roaming around the tank. That tells me that he could not find anything to eat in the tank so my pods population have been depleted or something (No I still have not have the fuge up and running yet, still working on it.) Without having fuge, how do I increase and maintain the pods population ? I do feed the live phyoplaktons like every 2nd or 3rd day into my tank or do I need to feed them the phyoplaktons more often ?

Thanks in advance,
Mike

08/30/2006, 10:11 AM	#1
unimike Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Whittier, CA Posts: 234	Scooter Blenny For past 5 months my blenny always active swimming around the tank while the light is on and goes to sleep shortly after the light goes off. Today, the light have been on for a good 2 hours and it have not really roamed around and stayed still...he's still breathing...should I get concerned ? I just did the 4 gallons water change 2 days ago and the parameters from yesterday are: Ammonia 0.25 (A possible cause from this?) Nitrite 0 Nitrate 10 SG 1.025 Temperture 80F

08/30/2006, 11:21 AM	#2
rkelman Registered Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: Belleville, Ontario Canada Posts: 3,438	I wouldn't worry too much. .. I have one too. His habits are irratic. That ammonia isn't bad but it should be 0. I'd get to work right away at getting that back to 0. Especially in a 30gal it could get bad fast.

08/30/2006, 11:42 AM	#3
theop Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Durham, NC Posts: 1,493	I'd be very concerned with that ammonia reading. First, a water change SHOULD NOT give you an ammonia spike... figure out what is going on. Second, that is enough ammonia to stress your fish. You should get rid of it with something like Seachem Prime and/or water changes.

08/30/2006, 05:03 PM	#4
unimike Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Whittier, CA Posts: 234	I just did another water change today and it was 2 gallons this time and the water change was done at 10:30am and the ammonia reading test was done like 10 mins ago and it still stands at 0.25

08/30/2006, 05:04 PM	#5
unimike Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Whittier, CA Posts: 234	I am concerned already because the blenny has not moved around very much...very slight activity from him today.

08/31/2006, 07:02 PM	#6
unimike Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Whittier, CA Posts: 234	update: I have taken a sample of the tank water to LFS today and their parameters reading was different than what I had right before I took it to LFS: My reading right before I took a sample of water to LFS: pH 8.0 Ammonia 0.25 Nitrite 0 Nitrate 10 Their reading: pH 7.8 Ammonia 0 Nitrite 0 Nitrate 10 I buffered the freshwater that I purchased from LFS with the Searchem Marine Buffer then mixed the salt into the jugs. I have done another 2 gallon water change today...in couple of hours, the pH reading now reads at 8.2 however the blenny wasn't showing the normal activity so today I tried a new trick...I thawed out 4 cubes of frozen bristle shrimps...while its thawing, I pitched in a pitchful of flakes to feed my school of greedy green chormis. Once the cubes were thawed out I mixed in the tank's water and fed my clowns and PJ cardinals until they are full so I could focus in feeding my bleeny...I aimed the turkey baster onto the bleeny's area...within seconds he sees the food and begun eating...I fed him 2 cubes worth of bristle shrimps!! Boy he must be straving and now he is back being normal self roaming around the tank. That tells me that he could not find anything to eat in the tank so my pods population have been depleted or something (No I still have not have the fuge up and running yet, still working on it.) Without having fuge, how do I increase and maintain the pods population ? I do feed the live phyoplaktons like every 2nd or 3rd day into my tank or do I need to feed them the phyoplaktons more often ? Thanks in advance, Mike