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mandarins have too small a mouth to go after bigger ampipods.
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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.
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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. |
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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 |
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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...
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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...
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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 |
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Green Sea Grass wrasse
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Lot of good suggestions here. http://archive.reefcentral.com/forum...readid=1167318 |
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I recently had a melanarus wrasse in my zoanthid tank, but moved him to a bigger tank.
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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...... |
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They are IMO some of the coolest looking fish.
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issu.../Editorial.htm |
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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. |
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