Midas Blenny: Golden – Africa (Ecsenius midas)

The Midas Blenny is basically a herbivore, and mainly feeds on zooplankton algae by scraping from the hard surface. It loves to sift through the sand in search of food and with its pointed mouth it can easily catch the micro fauna.

The Midas Blenny breeds by laying adhesive eggs on the substrate. Its odd undulating swimming motion makes this fish seem comical and endearing. Unlike most blennies, the Midas Blenny requires a meaty diet including finely chopped crustacean flesh, mysis and vitamin-enriched brine shrimp, along with frozen herbivorous preparations, micro and blue-green algae.