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Green Mandarinfish
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While we are on the subject of copepods I have a few questions about them. Will they survive in a in tank refugium? What would you need to put in the refugium? Once you have a refugium full of them how would you actualy feed them to a mandarin? Would you let a few out and hope for the best? Would you stick the mandarin the refugium for a few minutes?
The mandrin would have to graze in the fuge for most if not all of time unless you could catch the pods for it. They eat a lot almost all of the time. You would be better off if you raised pods outside of your main tank and captured large numbers of them a few times a week and feed them to the tank the mandrin was in. Use as a solid surface for them and feed them spirulina, nori, and some sort of marine vitamin.
Thanks for the advice, but i have a few followups. By solid surface do you mean that I should use them to keep the mandarin full while I try and get the mandarin on other foods? I have heard several weird ways to raise pods outside the tank, what would the best way be?
Sorry, I though I had said but, I hadn't use egg crate in a tupperware container lots of surface area and easy to get out of your way to catch them. I don't know if your mandrin will EVER eat other foods most of them won't . However with the proper pod breeding operation you shouldn't have to worry about that. I'd run two plastic tubs full of them ,"split a culture that should do the trick" and you'll have more than enough . You other fish will enjoy them as well they are pretty much the perfect food for lots of s..w critters if you raise them correctly.
Once again thanks a lot. So do you just put some number of pods in the tank and the mandarin will get to them? Also what sort of aeration/filtration would you need for these tupaware colonies?
Hey, thanls t everyone for their much appreacited feedback on this fish. So far I haven't seen that many copepod in my tank, so I guess I'll have to buy a colony and start breeding them before I acquire the fish. Any more suggestions?
p.s. at the store they told me it feeds on detritus as well.
p.s. at the store they told me it feeds on detritus as well.
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Talk to the owner after reading the site if you have any questions, her entire career is the study of all thing "POD".
Talk to the owner after reading the site if you have any questions, her entire career is the study of all thing "POD".
