Bottled Zooplankton

[pokeyJ]

Would bottled zooplankton ie Seachem Zooplankton be of nutritional value to pod eatting fish like meanderings?

 

[ichthyogeek]

I don't know about a /meandering/, but I doubt that bottled zooplankton would help a /mandarin/. I think there's a sticky somewhere about mandarin and other dragonet care. Since dragonets spend most of their time living on rocks/the solid parts of our tank, and not in the water column, it seems unlikely that zooplankton (floating food) would provide much nutritional value. Mandarins eat things like copepods, amphipods, mysid shrimp, and other bottom dwelling stuff.

 

[Fishfreak_MA]

You want to buy tisbe pods for a mandarin. Live aquaria and marine depot sell them and the brand they sell has provided some nice seed colonies for me. Remember though that a mandarin can't be sustained on added pods unless you want to spend thousands a year on bottled pods. You need to get a healthy population established in your tank.