Mandarin Gobies in Smaller Tanks

[sen5241b]

I had a MD last year and he ate pellets and small orange sushi roe like crazy, He grew quite fat ! He died of ich. I got another one on Friday and he is already eating sushi row and pellets. I think the "pellet-sushi" diet for MDs is a winner. (Many insist they only eat live foods). I'll let you know how it goes.

 

[yote]

I brought a mandrine home saturday night.That lil guy will fire up on frozen mysis.

 

[daugherty]

most of them will only eat frozen it is possiable it get the to eat other things many times it is very hard to do so.

 

[sen5241b]

Whoa, was that my thousandth post? I'm a big boy now! At this rate I'll catch up with Yote in 15 years.

 

[yote]

HAHA
Better hurry:D

Congrats on hittin a 1000

 

[lilyicu]

Where do you get the orange sushi roe? Is it expensive?

 

[Wes888]

Japanese/Korean supermarket. $3-$6 for a box about the size of 2 packs of cigarette.

 

[Bifferwine]

They can easily be kept in smaller tanks if they'll eat frozen foods. But a lot of them don't. No matter what you try to feed them, some just won't take to it. You've been lucky with the fish you've picked out so far. That's why it's so important to make sure they will take frozen food before you bring them home from the store. If they don't, then it's better to leave that fish for someone with a big tank that produces enough live food to sustain them naturally.

 

[sen5241b]

They can easily be kept in smaller tanks if they'll eat frozen foods. But a lot of them don't. No matter what you try to feed them, some just won't take to it. You've been lucky with the fish you've picked out so far. That's why it's so important to make sure they will take frozen food before you bring them home from the store. If they don't, then it's better to leave that fish for someone with a big tank that produces enough live food to sustain them naturally.

I think a big factor in keeping MDs on live copepods is to consider what other pod eating fish you have. I had tons of pods but after I put a 6-line in my tank they got decimated --now that he's gone the pods are starting to cover the glass again.

 

[daugherty]

almost all salt fish eat pods

 

[sen5241b]

almost all salt fish eat pods

Yeah, but some more than others. My clown and gobies didn't come close to the 6line or the blue damsel.

 

[project5k]

I've still never seen a pod in my tank, and my mandrin dosent eat frozen, so i guess thier in there, but i'm not finding them...

 

[winyfrog]

My mandarins have eatin frozen foods almost everytime but I believe that it is not very nutritious for them and they slowly die of malnutrition, over 6 months to a year, without pods.

I have never tried the roe thats interesting, that just might be a vitamin that they are missing from the frozen foods. Keep us informed.

 

[yote]

I've still never seen a pod in my tank, and my mandrin dosent eat frozen, so i guess thier in there, but i'm not finding them...

Thats why you dont see any pods in there.That mandrine is keeping the pod population in check.