Threadless Blenny - Any Info?

[eschaton]

When trawling around on Fishbase, I was looking at the freshwater fish of New Caledonia. I saw the entry on the Threadless Blenny, and it intrigues me - mainly because it's both found in freshwater and in the same genus as the fang-blennies which are fairly popular in reef tanks. Has anyone had any experience with these fish?

 

[nmonks]

Never seen it traded. I've only seen two blennies in the freshwater trade: the European blenny Salaria fluviatilis and the (brackish water) Vietnamese zebra blenny Omobranchus zebra. Neither really make good aquarium fish. The first is a warm temperate/subtropical fish that quickly dies under tropical conditions and really needs a cool, well-oxygenated tank of the sort used for things like hillstream loaches. The Vietnamese zebra blenny is really a brackish/marine fish that doesn't thrive in freshwater tanks and likely dies prematurely under such conditions. It is also quite aggressive and snappy, and is probably best kept in its own tank.

Cheers, Neale

When trawling around on Fishbase, I was looking at the freshwater fish of New Caledonia. I saw the entry on the Threadless Blenny, and it intrigues me - mainly because it's both found in freshwater and in the same genus as the fang-blennies which are fairly popular in reef tanks. Has anyone had any experience with these fish?