Check out this great video!
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/blog/courting-midas-blennies
And in addition to the cool fish behavior, look at the wonderful density and diversity of life on the rock surfaces in the wild. We rarely achieve anything like this in our reef tanks (though I try!).
Regarding the fish: I used to have a pair of bicolor blennies, The male would do a spectacular courtship dance in the afternoons, which involved bobbing up and down energetically as he swam around the female, and a color change, with vertical whitish stripes (if I recall correctly - it has been some years now, and I never got photos of this). It was very cool.
Now I am longing to have a really large tank big enough to house a group of midas blennies. How cool that would be!
My strong suspicion is that lawnmower blennies probably also have some spectacular courtship behavior - I've seen photos of their close relative the starry blenny during courtship, and this was cool too.
(Another dream tank situation would involve a male blue damsel (the males have orange on their tails) and a harem of females. This would also require a big tank, but the amazingly energetic and persistent courtship by these males is like nothing I've ever seen in fish otherwise!).
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/blog/courting-midas-blennies
And in addition to the cool fish behavior, look at the wonderful density and diversity of life on the rock surfaces in the wild. We rarely achieve anything like this in our reef tanks (though I try!).
Regarding the fish: I used to have a pair of bicolor blennies, The male would do a spectacular courtship dance in the afternoons, which involved bobbing up and down energetically as he swam around the female, and a color change, with vertical whitish stripes (if I recall correctly - it has been some years now, and I never got photos of this). It was very cool.
Now I am longing to have a really large tank big enough to house a group of midas blennies. How cool that would be!
My strong suspicion is that lawnmower blennies probably also have some spectacular courtship behavior - I've seen photos of their close relative the starry blenny during courtship, and this was cool too.
(Another dream tank situation would involve a male blue damsel (the males have orange on their tails) and a harem of females. This would also require a big tank, but the amazingly energetic and persistent courtship by these males is like nothing I've ever seen in fish otherwise!).
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