[Delphinus]

I picked up a lawnmower blenny a few months ago.

SHy little guy, he sure doesn't like to be looked at. Whenever he sees me, he flies off and disappears. As such I have yet to see him eat prepared foods although my wife says she saw him "clean" some of the mysis and other food off the powerhead strainers.

At any rate, he was barely 1.5" when I got him, now he is an almost astounding 4.5". And he has a large potbelly. (Looks just like StirCrazy's fish in the picture forum ... thread titled something like "30% of people are obese ... so is my fish" from about a month or two ago.) So he is getting something to eat.

If I let the fuzz grow on my front glass then the glass will be marked with the tell tale "kiss marks" from him munching off the glass.

All in all, he is a very entertaining fish.

If you opt to get one, he (she?) will need a lot of hidey holes in the rock. They seem to really enjoy darting in and out of caves and such.

When I asked about this fish, somone (I think it was Troy) warned me that this is a potential jumper. After having one myself, I totally beleive it. This fish is easily spooked. So be wary, if you have an open top this could be a concern. Mine hasn't jumped (or if he has, he fell back in because I have an enclosed canopy). But I do have to approach my tank slowly if I want to get a look at him. He's usually in a cave or whatnot and he blends in very well. They do seem to chameleon their colours somewhat so man do they ever blend in.

I named mine "Rygel" because he looks exactly like "Rygel" on "Farscape." I'm probably the only person who watches this show, nobody ever gets the joke when I tell them "and there's Rygel!" .. Oh well.

I haven't noticed mine go after the nori I put in the tank for him. However the nori is usually gone within a day or two. Whether that's because someone is eating it, or, it's just disintegrating, I'm not sure.

With my limited experience with scooter blennies, I can't imagine any fish not getting along with scooters. Scooters seem to evade notice by other fish. With that said, if your scooter is eating only live food, I have noticed a definite decrease in my 'pod population since the addition of my lawnmower .... I never see him eat so I can't be 100% certain that he's eating pods .... but where did they go? So I don't know what to make of that. It could be that my tank had an unusually high pod population to begin with and since then it has settled into a more sustainable number. There are too many variables at play to really know what's happened there.

Note that if you want a lawnmower to take care of algae ... I don't know if they eat hair algae. From what I understand they go for the "fuzzy" stuff.