Blue mandarine and red and blue fairy wrasse?
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Do you have the scientific name of the fairy wrasse you are talking about?
Do you have a refugium? How old is the tank? I wouldn't get a mandarin until the tank is at least a year old, otherwise there is no way the tank would be able to sustain just a mandarin. Mandarins can decimate a pod population fairly quickly with nearly constant hunting and eating all day, working towards training it to eat prepared foods would be a good idea to help out. Wrasses, undoubtedly can out compete a mandarin for pods, which could present a problem. Fairy and flasher wrasses don't compete as much as other wrasses do IMO, so you could be fine depending on the answers to the questions I asked.
Do you have a refugium? How old is the tank? I wouldn't get a mandarin until the tank is at least a year old, otherwise there is no way the tank would be able to sustain just a mandarin. Mandarins can decimate a pod population fairly quickly with nearly constant hunting and eating all day, working towards training it to eat prepared foods would be a good idea to help out. Wrasses, undoubtedly can out compete a mandarin for pods, which could present a problem. Fairy and flasher wrasses don't compete as much as other wrasses do IMO, so you could be fine depending on the answers to the questions I asked.
savemyreef
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I would still wait until your tank is about 8 months old. Maybe get so chaeto in your sump, I know my pods love to breed in them. Also if your LFS has any bottled copepods pick up some. I also noticed that if I feed some liquid phyto here and there their populations seem to boom.
As far as the Cirrhilabrus rubriventralis I think your 75 should be fine to house that. I don't think it will make too much of a dent in your copepod population, as far as your amphipod and mysids that may be another story.
As far as the Cirrhilabrus rubriventralis I think your 75 should be fine to house that. I don't think it will make too much of a dent in your copepod population, as far as your amphipod and mysids that may be another story.
