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02-11-2008, 02:51 PM
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| | Peppermint Shrimp
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: New Jersey
Posts: 439
|  I hope I can keep a Mandarin... Because I bought one
Hey guys I have a question my reef is over a year old it is:
120 Gal
180+ lbs of mature live rock
20 gal sump with live rock and macroalgae
Oversized triplepass skimmer
My water tested perfectly by my kit and the LFS kit
(i brought some water in)
salt is at 1.023
nitrate 0
nitrite 0
ammonia 0
ph is at 8.4
temp is at 78-80 (with MH lights on)
no aggressive tankmates
various coral selections
visible copepods in tank (at night with flashlight)
I also seeded the sump and tank a few weeks ago with some tiggerpods
Now I bought a small green mandarin because I always wanted one do you guys and gals think my tank can support it????  | 
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02-11-2008, 02:59 PM
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| | Stylophora
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Quebec City
Posts: 952
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It appears as thou you should be good to go. ( but you could post some pics )
Good luck to you and your mandarin _________ 
55gl skimmerless, 80lbs live rock, DIY wavemaker running 3x MJ1200 with hydor deflector.
2 DIY fluidized reactors Carbon & ROWAphos
LIghts- 2x 50/50 atinics T10's , 2x life gro T10's ,
1x20,000K T12, 1x6,000K T10.
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02-11-2008, 03:26 PM
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| | Fire Shrimp
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 343
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the maindrain is a really picky eater, they like to eat their food slowly and very selective just my info
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55g AGA 55lb LR, 55lb sand, CPR skimmer, magnum 350, koralia 1.
in progress:
120g RR, 40 sump/fuge, panworld 50pxx, 2 x 250 Lumen Bright Reeflux 12k coralvue ballst, 2x54 t5 current usa, 24 led moonlight, shallow sand bed, 2x Koralia 4, around 200lbs rock, msx 200, aquac phosphate reactor... If you see something better out there, let me know. most of the parts still being process. | |
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02-11-2008, 03:32 PM
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| | Great Blue Whale
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Sun River,Oregon (Bend) Age: 35
Posts: 2,838
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Hopefully you bought one that doesn't look skinny. They tend to die slowly even if you have plenty of food for it. Not something I've experienced just read about. I guess that's just a general ruke for any fish purchase though. I love mine and it is doing great. | 
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02-11-2008, 04:24 PM
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| | Montipora Digitata
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Manchester UK Age: 24
Posts: 1,073
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beautiful fish! Did you see if it would take brine shrimp or something while it was still in the store??
You can buy copepods to add to your tank, that should help feed him _________ | |
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02-11-2008, 04:36 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
Posts: 3,829
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Looks like you have prepared well for your new tank mate. Just keep an eye on him and you should have years of enjoyment out of him. You can always buy more pods for a while if you see he is not picking at anything.
Congrats! _________ Scott 265g (Peninsula)
3x400w MH's, 4x95w Actinics, AAT Lunar Lights, OM 4-way CL, PM Bullet 3 Skimmer, DelZone Eclipse 1 O3 Generator, WavySea Plus for return, AAT Kalk Reactor, KNOP Ca Reactor w/PM Second Chamber, TradeWinds Chiller, ACIII Controller, Oceanus ATO, PM PO4 Reactor, 75g Sump, 30g Fuge Born March 5, 2007 Parameters My 265 Gal. Tank Thread   | |
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02-11-2008, 05:01 PM
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| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Baltimore, MD Age: 47
Posts: 1,178
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It is a great fish...It is good to see that your tank has been up over a year. Although you may be seeing some pods at night does not necessarily mean you have a large population..Also, they should be in a mature tank...Some say a year, I think even longer would be better...Just my 2 cents....Good luck man, they are beautiful... _________ 72 gallon bowed 150lbs LR 60 lbs LS
2 Percs
1 Chevron Tang
Hippo Tang
Six Line Wrasse
Coral Banded Shrimp
Cleaner Shrimp
Starry Blenny
4 Lyretail Anthias
Long Polyp Toadstool
Montipora
Long Tentacle Anenome
Short tentacle plate
Pulsing Xenia
Green Star polyps
Frogspawn
29 gallon
2 Clown
1 Coral Beauty
1 Fairy Wrasse
24 FOWLR
Dwarf Lion
125 gallon African Cichlid Tank http://home.comcast.net/~pizzal/index.html 
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02-11-2008, 05:20 PM
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| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 59
Posts: 4,778
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Congrats on being patient and waiting to add this fish.
So many people don't...and they starve.
Good luck with yours, am sure it will do fine...and may he turn into a fat little sausage like mine... "Om"  "Reef on" _________ AG "125," AquaC EV 180, 30 gal sump, "SCWD", 80 lbs LR, CoralSeaLife "Moonlite" Hood, PFO 250W HQI Mini-Pendant (SPS HQI 14000k bulb)
12 Gallon NanoCube - 24w stock PC 50/50 light "...nothing good ever happens fast in a reef tank, only bad things happen fast..."
- MIKE PALLETTA - (2008 Reef log) ("OmarD"/"Scott") | |
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02-11-2008, 05:29 PM
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| | Coral Banded Shrimp
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Saskatoon, Sk Age: 21
Posts: 399
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I'd say you're good! Love em! Can't wait to get mine (Don't worry, I am...).
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40g with 10g sump with ~85 lbs liverock, 1.5" deep livesand bed.
Fish - halloween hermits, blue leg hermits, left-handed hermits, emerald crabs, assorted snails, chocolate chip star, 4x strawberry conches, tuxedo urchin x2, electric flame scallop, gold stripe maroon clown, blue-side wrasse, yellow tang, yellow watchman goby, white seabae anemone.
Coral - One lonely Kenya Tree. | |
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02-11-2008, 06:11 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Meriden, Connecticut Age: 44
Posts: 3,963
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Specialized feeders for the most part, with the big tank and mature tank, you should have a good chance of keeping this beautiful fish long term!
Best of luck! _________ 125gal.w/Mag9.5 return(dual megaflow)>Mag7 pump Aqua Cev180skimmer.Wave2k Hamilton Reefstar(2)250watthqi(mh)pend.a Yellow, Naso Tang Red Lip Blenny Percula Clown Demoiselles Niger Trigger F. Wrasses Ceriantharia Orn.Shrimp and Stars Hermits Queen Conch asst. snails> Stars Zoos shrooms Montipora Brains Gorgonians Favia Turbinaria(large+small polyp) Acropora Xenia Tridacna (CroceaMaximaSquamosa) Leathers <35+75gal.reef tank as well> 
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