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02-07-2005, 10:11 AM
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| Teenie Weenie Fish Join Date: Feb 2005
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|  mandarin fish i have a 12g nano cube that's been running for 3 months now. everything is ok but i'm just worried bout my mandarin. he seems to be getting thinner. r there other foods besides the copepods in my tank that he will eat( i think the copepod population is on the brink of extinction!). pls help..thanks |
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02-07-2005, 07:13 PM
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| Moderator  Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Hayward, CA
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| there are very few other food items mandarins will eat...generally this is why people keep them in very large systems. one option is to farm copeopds in a refugium, other than that you are pretty well SOL |
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02-08-2005, 04:18 PM
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| Super Fish  Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Michigan
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| Mandarins usually need to be kept in a bigger aged system. Without copepod(im sure there are like none in your tank) they will slowly starve to death. Once and a while mandarins might eat live brine shrimp or cyclopeez...but like Camaro said a refugium is your best bet. In the mean time I would bring it back to the store.
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02-09-2005, 02:17 PM
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| Teenie Weenie Fish Join Date: Feb 2005
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| i've been feeding my tank with cyclop-eeze for my rbta & clownfish. i dunno if my mandarin takes it as well. i guess i have to make some sort of a refugium at the back compartments of my nano cube with the hope of introducing copepods. do u guys have any idea how i can introduce them? what sort of things do i need to put? thanks. |
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02-09-2005, 05:13 PM
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| Medium Fish  Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Astoria, NY
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| yeah! refugium!
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02-10-2005, 04:34 AM
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| Super Fish Join Date: Oct 2002
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| I find it hard to believe your mandarin is plucking cyclopeeze out of the water column, so if it's getting any, it will be what it finds on the substrate/live rock. I find it hard to believe you'll have enough space in your tank to keep enough live rock to keep your manadarin going. The volume of refugium required to keep enough pods going to feed the guy will likely take up most, if not all of the tank. You have 3 options 1.Buy pods, or attach a large enough refugium, which is likely a 10 gallon. 2. Return fish to larger tank (either yours or elsewhere) 3. Starve it to death, which is what you're doing now. There is a guy in the book Ultimate Marine Aquria who has 3 or 4 similar dragonettes in a 40 gallon, however if you look at his setup, it is a dream for them, with a LOT of live rock ,and a gallon refugium I tihnk, and even then he doesn't recommend it. |
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