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12-13-2007, 04:30 PM
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| | Plankton
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 14
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| pods and the mandarin goby Just asking if a 3 month old reef tank with a couple of chromis,2 cleaner shrimp,crabs and snails would be ready for a mandarin goby?I know I have copepods,50lbs live rock,will that be enough to sustain the goby?  |
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12-13-2007, 04:56 PM
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| | Bubble Tip Anemone
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Denver, Colorado Age: 24
Posts: 698
| Nope. You need more LR and about 9 more months. _________ 125 Gal Reef. Born March 2002 FISH: Ocellaris Clown, Yellow Tang, Fairy Wrasse, Sand Star, Fuzzy Dwarf Lion, Mandarin Dragonette, Hippo Tang CORALS: Green Striped/Red/Purple Mushrooms, Green Star Polyps, Yellow Toadstool Leather, Bubble, Frogspawn, 2 Hammers, Yellow Polyps, Open Brain, Ridge Leather, Various Zoas, Button Polyps, Kenya Tree, Colt, Elephant Ear Mushroom, Clove Polyps, Torch, Purple Clam, Rose BTA |
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12-13-2007, 06:18 PM
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| | Coral Banded Shrimp
Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Buffalo N.Y. Age: 24
Posts: 377
| I have a 44 gal. almost 5 months old. Ive had a scooter dragonette(mandarin) for about 4 months. he was the first fish i added do to the timid nature. these species are a lil easier to ween from the pods. mine eats brine srimp with spirulina. feeding is a lil bit of a task beacuase you have to but shrimp in a glass jar and lower it down. this fish has the best personality ive ever seen in a fish, he is more like a tiny dog. i know the other mandarins are harder to ween off pods, but if you like the look of mandarins
scooter (blennie, dragonette, mandarin) might be another option. mine is alot fatter since i got him, his body probaly doubled its thickness. he still picks pods during the day, but gets his fill from the brine shrimp. Ive also hatched baby brine shrimp he def noticed them, but ive yet to find a way to effectivly get them to stay in one spot. |
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12-13-2007, 08:12 PM
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| | Zoanthid
Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: valencia,pa. Age: 34
Posts: 1,112
| thats what most people call scooter blennies is'nt it?those are easy to keep and have personality cost about $6-8.the mandarins though are an advanced fish for a very mature system $35.if you look hard enough maybe you can find one that already eats prepared food.make them proove it.you'll still need a tank 6months old or better.preferably 55 gallons and up.research this fish alot before acting.
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55 gallon reef with 4x54 watt t5,29 gallon sump,red monti cap,1blue echinophyllia,trumpet,red lobo,2 toadstools 1purple and 1neon,gsp,xenia and yellow xenia,red ,many mushrooms,2 giant frilly shrooms,cabbage coral,yellow polyps,many zoos,1 orange and one neon green nepthia,duncans,cladiella |
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12-13-2007, 11:12 PM
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| | Kole Tang
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: joliet,il Age: 41
Posts: 1,759
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