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26-04-2006 09:12 by Penny1	Hi, can anyone help me, my lawnmower blennie is looking really thin, we have had him for about a year and the tank is mature, but he seems to be losing weight. Can anybody suggest something that i can feed him on, he is abit fussy and won't normally eat marine flakes or green seaweed, we feed the others with spinach too, but he doesn't seem interested in that either. Please somebody help i don't want Albert to fade away and die.
26-04-2006 09:12 by Penny1
26-04-2006 09:20 by Alan	I take it you have no hair algae in your tank these little blighters tend to be so efficient that they eat all of their food source and then starve. How do you feed frozen food do you just chuck the frozen cubes in or do you defrost them first? If you don't defrost them first I would do so and then poor the food in front of a power head to disperse it all around the tank this will enable the flymo to compete for the food, I used this trick to ween a mandarin on to frozen foods it causes the artemia to be presented in a more natural way so the fish can stalk it. The only other things I can suggest is feeding with nori it is easy to find in supermarkets for use in making sushi rolls although I expect this is what you mean when you say sea weed.
26-04-2006 09:21 by Alan	You've got to love some of my incorrect use of words I might wake up soon.
26-04-2006 15:17 by Penny1	Hi Alan, i hold the cube in the water and let it defrost, near the power head, like you said it pushes it all round the tank. We did have some algae but it has all been eaten, it doesn't seem to last very long. By seaweed i meant the dry sheets called sea veggies(green seaweed) is that the same stuff. If not will make a trip to supermarket and get some, anything to stop my Albert from starving to death, i know they are not the prettiest of fish but there is just something about him, he's great
26-04-2006 17:47 by drummerduck	do scooter bleenies turn over substrate? or do they just..... scoot?
27-04-2006 08:06 by Alan	just scoot. Those dry sheets you mention are one in the same much cheaper from the supermarket though. How do you present the seaweed I use a lettuce clip and let it sit on the bottom of the tank.
27-04-2006 09:31 by Penny1	Hi Alan, we do use a clip but it is stuck on the glass. Will get another one and put that on the bottom and see if he will feed off that one. thanks your always very helpful.
27-04-2006 09:50 by Alan	If I can help any one avoid the disasters I suffer then good I hate the thought of people making mistakes as I have over the years so where I can help I do and if I'm going to try something a little different I post how its going such as recently hyposalinity treatment for whitespot on a reef tank, won't be doing that again got plenty of space for more corals now though!
27-04-2006 10:03 by anna	lol alan i thought u could treat fish with whte spot with a fresh water dip? iv never tried it as i was fortunate never to suffer from whitespot when i had my marines!
27-04-2006 11:51 by Alan	Freshwater dip would cause massive stress through osmotic shock and the cryptocaryon are not affected at all as they are nicely tucked up in the fishes tissue it is a complete waste of time and the stress can kill the fish. However hypo salinity works (not on a reef) as cryptocaryon are extremely sensitive to salt fluctuations anything below 25 ppt and their cells in theory pop. They are only susceptible though at the free swimming stage. I would recommend hypo salinity on a fish only set up you have to keep the salinity low for 6 weeks. It doesn't seem to bother the fish at all.
27-04-2006 11:59 by anna	oh right cheers alan learnt summit from u again we'll hav to satrt callin ya the guru!

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