The members of these two families require similar care requirements, and can even be kept together in the same aquarium set up alongside invertebrates and placid fish such as sea horses and pipefish.
Its important that blennies and Mandarinfish are not harried by other tanks fish, because they produce an unpleasant, protective slime from their bodies to deter assailants. Some blennies have evolved the predatory trick to copying the appearance of cleaning wrasse, and then biting chunks out of the fish expecting to be cleaned.
The mandarinfish is native to the Western Pacific, ranging approximately from the Ryukyu Islands south to Australia. It is also somewhat misleadingly known as the mandarin goby, due to its resemblance to blennies and gobies. Other trade names include "green mandarinfish", "striped mandarinfish", or "psychedelic fish".
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