Scooter Blenny
The Scooter Blenny is a cute, bottom dwelling fish that is perfect for an aquarium with other passive feeders. Scooter Blennies are actually not a blenny at all, but a dragonet (part of the same family as mandarins). These little guys are very active, which is how they got their name by "scooting" across the aquarium. They are reef safe and should be housed in aquariums with rockwork and sand beds because it serves as protection as well as provides a natural food source. The live rock and sand act as a refugee for copepods to breed, which the Scooter Blenny will feed on. They have a small adult size of about 5" and are a great candidate for smaller aquariums. Their bodies are a mottled brown and white with hints of red throughout. The Scooter Blennies are found in the Pacific Ocean inhabiting the sandy areas of reefs and lagoons up to 30 meters of depth.