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May 13th, 2008, 02:43 PM
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Breeding pods
I'd really like to get a Mandarin Goby (tank almost 6 months now) and yes I've got severals kinds of copepods, amphipods and now new black pods of some sort. After I got rid of my blue damsel the pods were everywhere. My new royal dottyback seems to have eaten a lot of them. How do you breed pods? A fuge is important but is there something you can feed them?
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May 13th, 2008, 03:06 PM
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Re: Breeding pods
I serious believe a 29g. will ever be big enough to support a mandarin.Even worst is your dottyback is competing for the same food.My best advice is try to find one already taking to frozen will help but in all my years never did I find one at the LFS that took to frozen foods.Even if you do find one,they are very slow eaters so other fish will out compete them for food.
Rock rubble and crumbled pieces,macro algae like chaeto and even the small holes and pores of live rock all make safe haven for copepods to reproduce.They feed on detritus and micro/film algae so no feeding is necessary.
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May 13th, 2008, 04:09 PM
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Re: Breeding pods
Some pods really appreciate phytoplankton. You can get it several ways frozen and dead concentrated in small bottles.
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May 13th, 2008, 07:04 PM
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Re: Breeding pods
i heard if u make a pile out of rubble from live rock and such that pods will breed in the pile. i plan on trying this in my new tank when i set it up. just my 2 cents
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May 13th, 2008, 07:23 PM
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Re: Breeding pods
dont know too much about the pod situation. BUT i do know that Melev from Melevsreef.com has a way to feed his mandarin pellets with no problem
check it out here: http://www.melevsreef.com/mandarin_diner.html
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May 13th, 2008, 07:28 PM
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Re: Breeding pods
I'm already putting phytoplankton concentrate in and also already have a pile of smaller LR pieces in the back. At any rate, I'm not getting the mandarin until I've done some planning and research on this. Its very easy to get new fish fever: you're in the LFS, you see that cool fish and you just grab him without knowing what your getting into.
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May 14th, 2008, 12:20 AM
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Re: Breeding pods
I have a 30g tank with a zillion copepods. I don't like Mandarin fish, but if I did, I'm sure I could keep it alive on just pods. Nothing else eats them. I have several hundred amphipods that are 1/2" long.
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May 14th, 2008, 12:37 AM
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Re: Breeding pods
If you see a mandarin at your LFS, ask them to feed it some frozen food. If it eats, you're good to go. If it doesn't, pass on that fish. In a tank that size, I would not even try to keep one unless I know for sure it can eat frozen.
There are things you can do to increase your pod population, like others have said adding phyto and building rock rubble areas for them works, but in a tank that size with two fish competing for the same food source, I think they'll get eaten faster than they reproduce no matter what you try to do.
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May 14th, 2008, 12:40 AM
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Re: Breeding pods
that is a really cool idea with the bottle.
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May 14th, 2008, 02:05 AM
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Re: Breeding pods
Thats a great video. The mandarins can eat in peace and all the tangs can do is wait for a scrap or two to drift out of the bottle.
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