zoa eating copepod claims

[delsol650]

mandarins have too small a mouth to go after bigger ampipods.

[Agu]

Originally posted by angry.clownfish
I bought another yellow coris yesterday, this one slightly bigger. it swam around for a little while then burried itself just like the first one. I hope he shows himself today or else I'm going with a sixline unless it will bother my mandarin dragonet. My pods have moved to another colony

The sixline and mandarin eat the same foods, eventually the sixline will decide to eliminate the competition for limited resources.

[delsol650]

WEll, If your lucky and get your mandarin trained to eat prepared foods like cyclopeeze, vitamin enriched pellets, mysis... you should be good... Mine eats a lot of the pellets and doesn't eat off the rocks as much...

I had a 6line w/ the mandarin... for over 2 years... also is now with yellow coris, blue sided and leopard wrasses ( eats prepared foods ).. with NO prob with anyone out competing the other.

[mnestroy]

Originally posted by delsol650
Mandarins have small mouths.. meaning only smaller ampipods and pods..

Got get a yellow coris, green sea grass, leopards , any fairy/flasher type wrasses can help. I had 8-9 wrasses in my 100 ( they decimated the ampipods in no time ) but since either selling , trading, some dying.. the Large ampipod population has come back.

I have a 40 breeder and I've been trying everything to keep my zoos healthy, the tank has been up for 3yrs, about 3 months ago I purchased a tiny Spotted Mandarin (hes been very healthy since)

I see you say the Mandarin have smaller mouths, would I be able to keep him and a six line alive in my tank? I would hate for one of them to starve.

[flyyyguy]

look at it this way.

the majority of madarins starve and die in captivity even in tanks much, much larger than yours.

throwing an agressive pod predator in with him in a tiny tank is a certain death sentence....UNLESS, you can get him to eat prepared foods willingly and very often, or commit to going to the effort of raising pods and adding them constantly, which in that tank you will need to do anyway to keep him healthy long term

[delsol650]

If your lucky to get them to eat various prepared foods you should be good with keeping them healthy.. even do the MELEV Mandarin Diner technique. I just feed mine in the open as long as all the other fish are fed, they don't out compete them.. Some people are even experimenting with mandarins in a NANO...

[delsol650]

If your lucky to get them to eat various prepared foods you should be good with keeping them healthy.. even do the MELEV Mandarin Diner technique. I just feed mine in the open as long as all the other fish are fed, they don't out compete them.. Some people are even experimenting with mandarins in a NANO...

[flyyyguy]

ok..i want to add another wrasse. suggestions??

as far as the copepods......I actually nuked my tank with a 3x dose of interceptor a couple weeks ago in an effort to kill some of these monsters. It worked. but I still want to add another wrasse and looking for suggestions

here is the current guy doing his thing

[delsol650]

Green Sea Grass wrasse

[mfinn]

Originally posted by flyyyguy
[B]ok..i want to add another wrasse. suggestions??

Lot of good suggestions here.

http://archive.reefcentral.com/forum...readid=1167318

[mfinn]

I recently had a melanarus wrasse in my zoanthid tank, but moved him to a bigger tank.

[flyyyguy]

I noticed the leopard wrasse listed in that thread you linked.

those fish are gorgeous. I recall looking onto one but there was some reason I cant recall that made it a non option......

[mfinn]

They are IMO some of the coolest looking fish.

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issu.../Editorial.htm

[flyyyguy]

thanks for the link mfinn.

I now recall why it wasnt an option. I was looking into putting it into my 90 BB tank. But I am shopping for my 225 dsb so I think its as fair of a field for him as any.

Im going to do it. I just called my lfs and had him order me one.