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06-05-2008, 10:22 PM
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| | Corkscrew Tentacle Anemone
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Parma Ohio Age: 27
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|  Lawnmower blenny and eating
My lawnmower blenny has seemed in the last month or so become fussy on eating. eats but eats sparlingly. His stomach is sinking in big time....i feed rods food, mysis shrimp, spectra pellets/flakes, and red/purple/green algae sheets...even soak in garlic. What else is there to get this guy to eat? | 
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06-05-2008, 10:52 PM
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| | Fire Worm
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Henderson, NV
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I have had my lawnmower blenny for about two weeks and he has never swam up to eat durring feeding. he has been busy eating alge and other stuff off my live rock. My friends got picky and now eats silver sides during target feedings. you might want to try that.
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65gal 70 + #'s of live rock and thick sandbed. 2False percula clown's, 1Lawnmower blenny, 1Diamond goby. 1six line wrasse, 1 blue hippo tang 12Astrea snails, 10Nassarius snails, 1Fighing Conch, Blue Hermit Crabs. Some Corals.
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06-06-2008, 01:47 AM
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| | Montipora Digitata
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Manchester UK Age: 24
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as above try some brine or mysis shrimp _________ | |
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06-06-2008, 12:00 PM
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| | Peppermint Shrimp
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: New Jersey
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My lawnmower has been with me for 9 months and I never see him eat anything but what he gets off the rocks and glass. He has never eaten anything else and he goes through spells where he looks skinny but I have never had a problem. I wouldn't worry.
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120 Gal Reef Tank Born 12/06 160+ Lbs of Live Rock 80 Lbs Live Sand
25 Gal Sump with fuge 15 lbs of Live Rock & Phosphate reactor
(2) 250w 20K MH and (4) 65w CF Atinics (6) Moonlights
Aqua C EV Skimmer
(4) Hydor Korillia # 3s
(1) yellow chromis
(1) green coris wrasse
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06-06-2008, 12:03 PM
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| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Baltimore, MD Age: 47
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Are you sure he is able to get to the food. I know when I feed the tank, there is a frenzy and I have to be sure everyone gets their fair share...My Starry Blenny, very much like the Lawnmower Blenny, is a pig. He grazes all day on the glass and rock, but also eats at feeding time. He also does a good job of picking up any leftovers off of the sand...Good Luck.... _________ 72 gallon bowed 150lbs LR 60 lbs LS
2 Percs
1 Chevron Tang
Hippo Tang
Six Line Wrasse
Coral Banded Shrimp
Cleaner Shrimp
Starry Blenny
4 Lyretail Anthias
Long Polyp Toadstool
Montipora
Long Tentacle Anenome
Short tentacle plate
Pulsing Xenia
Green Star polyps
Frogspawn
29 gallon
2 Clown
1 Coral Beauty
1 Fairy Wrasse
24 FOWLR
Dwarf Lion
125 gallon African Cichlid Tank http://home.comcast.net/~pizzal/index.html 
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06-06-2008, 12:07 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: niles, ohio Age: 32
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Hope all works out.... _________ My Tank Thread...... EST. 10/30/07 5.5 gal, 72watt's of pc's, rio skimmer, hob rated at 40 gal, stealth heater, b/w aussie clown, emerald crab, turbo, bumble bee, astrea, and nassarius snails, aussie open brain, pink birdsnest, wallhammer, multiple acro's, numerous monti's, zoa's, palys, ppd's, duncans, mint gsp's, reg gsp's, blue clove polyps, grn bali slimer, and tons of ppl sponges. | |
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06-06-2008, 07:00 PM
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| | Plankton
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: San Diego, CA Age: 25
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My Lawnmower has been with me for about 4 months and I've never seen him eat when I put food in. He's always busy grazing on the sand & live rock. He's never eaten flakes, mysis, plankton, seaweed, or other stuff I feed everyone else. Wish I could help, but I read Lawnmowers just feed off bacteria growth which is why you need a well established tank - preferrably over a year.
Good luck.
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60g: Kole Tang, Royal Gramma, Fire Shrimp, Cleaner Shrimp, Paired Ocellaris Clowns (Frogspawn Host), Lawnmower Blenny, Blue Linckia, Xenia, Leather, Brain, Green Star Poly, Various Button Poly & Shrooms
20g: 4-Stripe Damsel, Ruby Scat, Kenya Tree
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06-06-2008, 08:03 PM
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| | Fire Worm
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Henderson, NV
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Originally Posted by BaxterS80  Are you sure he is able to get to the food. I know when I feed the tank, there is a frenzy and I have to be sure everyone gets their fair share...My Starry Blenny, very much like the Lawnmower Blenny, is a pig. He grazes all day on the glass and rock, but also eats at feeding time. He also does a good job of picking up any leftovers off of the sand...Good Luck.... | the way my friend did it was to take a wooden dowel with a home made pointed end that could hold the silver side. he put it near the lawnmower blenny and he snatches it.
good luck let me know how it goes. | |
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