Ruby Scooter Blenny
The ruby red dragonet is beautifully colored and will be sure to add color and diversity to your aquarium.
Ruby scooter blenny. They feed on crustaceans and invertebrates. It prefers a reef aquarium of 30 gallons or larger with lots of live rock to hide in and graze from. Blennies in smaller tanks will quickly wipe out the entire pod population.
Also known as flame scooter blenny moyer s scooter dragonet ruby red dragonet scarlet scooter blenny. The red scooter dragonet is also referred to as the starry dragonet or stellate dragonet. It prefers a reef aquarium of 30 gallons or larger with lots of live rock to hide in and graze from.
Length 4cm depth 20 38m western pacific philippines. The ruby red dragonet is also referred to as ruby dragonet. Which that is this.
Tank volume l 120. The red ruby scooter dragonet is also known as the flame scooter blenny scarlet scooter blenny ruby red dragonet and the moyer s scooter dragonet. The male usually has brighter colors and a larger dorsal fin.
The ruby red dragonet is an eye catching bottom dweller currently known only from jolo island part of the sulu peninsula in the philippines. Feeding ruby red scooter blenny. This diminutive bright scarlet and yellow fish is found amongst areas of broken coral rubble that is interspersed with outcrops of soft and stony corals to depths of 38m 125ft.
This video is of my ruby red scooter blenny eating frozen foods and begging for food. This newly described dragonet species originates from the philippines. This means if no target feeding is done each mandarin scooter blenny will need a 50 gallon with sump set up or 100 gallon tank.
They are very peaceful and can be housed with other peaceful fish in a reef tank setting but may become territorial towards other blennies gobies or dartfish in smaller tanks blennnies are known for their incredible jumping abilities so having a tightly. Its body is a mottling of red and white with large dark spots. The ruby red dragonet synchiropus sp has a ruby red body with mottled white spots and intensely yellow fins outlined with stark black.
Blennies are also able to eat small invertebrates such as new born shrimp snails and crabs.