Am I starving my Green Mandarin Goby???

[shermanator]

I don't believe tigger pods reproduce in tank.

They will with no predators. But Tigger pods swim in the water column and are pretty active, so they will easily get decimated in a DT with fish that eat pods (and almost every fish will happily eat Tigger pods).

Even rubble piles in a DT don't work well due to their swimming style. But Tigger pods will reproduce quite well in a refugium and can provide a good food source.

 

[jrp1588]

They will with no predators. But Tigger pods swim in the water column and are pretty active, so they will easily get decimated in a DT with fish that eat pods (and almost every fish will happily eat Tigger pods).

Even rubble piles in a DT don't work well due to their swimming style. But Tigger pods will reproduce quite well in a refugium and can provide a good food source.

Noted, could have sworn I read somewhere that they were a colder water species. Either way, it's not sustainable to keep buying them.

 

[Paul B]

Build a feeder and hatch brine shrimp.

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[fsamir]

Don't feed "cloud" of mysis, it will ignore. You have to fool it as if mysis was his natural food, that means 2 or 3 mysis at time, with some getle movement. He will refuse it at the beginning.

 

[snorklr]

was feeding mine tigger pods...they are attracted to light and would just swim up and go into the overflow...so i'dhave to go in the basement at midnight to dump them in...had a nitelight at a bottom corner of the tank in a low flow area to attract them so they hopefully wound up in the rock or gravel...don't know if the mandarin foraged at night but he lived like that for a year till killed by hurricane sandy's power failure while i was out of town...at a cost of over $1000 in tigger pods...situations in my life prevented me from coming up with a better idea at the time

 

[ViktorVaughn]

Like one of the above posters recommended, grab some Nutramar if you can. Every mandarin I have owned has eventually grown to love the nutramar. I always just put a small frozen chunk into a small glass or shot glass, add some tank water and then lay it on its side in the sandbed. Once in the morning before I go to work and once and at night when I get home. My current mandarin is usually inside the glass chowing down with 2 minutes. I also have a company local to me that sells some great copepods that I add about once or twice a month.