Despite the fact that only a few dragonet species are common in the marine trade, they are an abundance of species present in our oceans. The biggest of them can reach up to 12 inches in length but most of them reach four to five inches at most. However, most species brought in to the trade rarely grow longer than 4 inches. Found throughout the Indo-Pacific, they spend their time at the bottom most of the time.

The most popular species brought into the trade are scooter blennies and the mandarin dragonets. Strangely, they are commonly thought to be blennies or gobies a lot of the time. Fish stores around the world will normally have a few of these fish for sale at any given time.

Dragonets posses a mouth that is well suited to picking off worms and other small crustaceans from the sand bed and are distinct in the fact that their heads are somewhat triangular in shape. Dragonets are some of the hardest fish to feed in the hobby. Their primary food source is the tiny copepod which is only present in sufficient numbers in larger aquariums that have been up un running for at least 6 months. Using the correct training methods, they will consume some types of foods eventually. Even though they may be feeding prepared foods, they still do require copepods to do well in the long run.

They are not known to be aggressive and are largely peaceful with many types of fish. Most fish in the same aquarium tend to ignore them as well. Housed with large predators that include groupers and moray eels will mean a missing dragonet eventually. They usually reserve aggression towards similar fish species. Males are aggressive towards other males.

Despite the fact that they are difficult to keep in captivity, they are still being collected from the wild in huge numbers. A large portion of dragonets collected go on to die simply because they are not given proper foods. While they are cheap and normally plentiful, if you do not have a large enough aquarium with a thriving copepod population, it may be wiser to give these fishes a pass.

If you require more reading on the Dragonet species of fish or the Scooter Blenny, further facts can be found by following the links above. Also touched on a diversity of other marine aquarium fish such as surgeonfish, angelfish, basslets, seahorses as well as the ever popular clown fish family.

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