ember blenny

bowkry · #1 08-04-2012, 04:03 PM

i have all sorts of blennies in reef tanks and never ever had one eat coral, they will eat ornamental algae

ScubaSteve · #2 08-04-2012, 04:17 PM

For more info, look for Stigmata Blenny or use its Latin name. Google shall be thy guide. Here's a bit of info: http://blog.aquanerd.com/2011/07/hot...veaquaria.html

You'll find a bit more info in a book rather than the net but they're more or less a bicolor blenny in behaviour.

ScubaSteve · #3 08-07-2012, 03:31 AM

Picked up one of the "Indian" Blennies as well today. I think they're actually Cirripectes castaneus (Chestnut blenny) instead of the C. stigmaticus (Ember/Stigmata/Indian Blenny). Still a cool fish!

dc4 · #4 08-07-2012, 03:44 AM

That would explain the price, lol.

Im trying to catch the larger one I bought as it is terrorizing my hawkfish for some reason, not sure why its the only fish in my tank it goes after, other than the other blenny. Im hoping the smaller one will morph into a female soon...

ScubaSteve · #5 08-07-2012, 03:48 AM

They are apparently just as uncommon as the Embers, though neither are rare. They're just not collected as often. LiveAquaria sells the Embers for the same prices as all the other combtooth blennies ($35).

Myka · #6 08-09-2012, 02:41 AM

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Originally Posted by dc4

Im hoping the smaller one will morph into a female soon...

Blennies aren't suspected to be able to change sex as far as I've seen published. Where do you find this info?

bowkry · #7 08-07-2012, 03:46 AM

I love his color, he eats algae like a lawnmower blenny, so hes cool looking and eats algae. My powder blue makes him hide a bit but that will change

fishytime · #8 08-07-2012, 04:37 AM

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Originally Posted by bowkry

i have all sorts of blennies in reef tanks and never ever had one eat coral, they will eat ornamental algae

you've never had a leopard blenny......their diet is sps polyps.....

embers are defiantly cool!

Proteus · #9 08-09-2012, 12:46 AM

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Originally Posted by NightShadeFairy

Yikes! Reading this thread made me interested in one for my reef.. Apparently they are coral chompers! At least the bi-color and tribal blennies are.. Hope yours isn't!! Good luck

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Originally Posted by dc4

Bicolor blennies being coral chompers? That's the first I've ever heard that before, mine grazes on algae and frozen but has never even looked at my corals... Where did you read that information? I guess if anything was hungry enough, any fish may try sampling sources of food but I've never heard of bicolors being nonreef safe.[/url]

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Originally Posted by fishytime

you've never had a leopard blenny......their diet is sps!

I've had a bicolor for over a year and twice I've caught him munching lps. The first time he was eating a open brain then last week caught him nipping at lords.
Though I take it as a hungry fish as I really do try not to over feed