Clam and mandarin

[spamin76]

Would a clam and a mandarin make good tank mates? I am guessing the mandarin would completely ignore the clam since they tend to just skim the bottom for copepods. Anyone kept these too together before?

 

[lovemytank]

i have a mandarin and it doesnt even notice my clam

 

[misery]

My Mandarin doesn't even go near my clam!

 

[HolyBanana]

my mandarin said to me when I asked him: "Clam? WTF is that?"

 

[dragon_slayer]

my pair of mandarins have never bothered any of the clams in the tank with them, heck they have never bothered anything other then one another when they get that spawning itch.

kc

 

[spamin76]

Great - gonna have to get a mandarin then ... not like it would take much to convince me to do that...

 

[PSEUDOREEFER]

Is it going in the

30 gal mini reef

or the

90 gal trigger tank

The 30 wouldn't have enough LR to support a mandarin and it definately wouldn't be happy in a trigger tank.

 

[dragon_slayer]

The 30 wouldn't have enough LR to support a mandarin .................

that's not entirely true. in the hands of the right reefer a 29g reef can support a mandarin very easily.

this is a pic of my female who lived in my 29g for close to 3 yrs before i recently moved her and her now hubby into my 180g. as you can see she's not exactly starved by any means of the word.

kc

 

[OrionN]

I would say that a 30 g is likely too small for Mandarin. There are exception out there but this is few and far in between. The picture of the Mandarin above is healthy, and fat, not starving, but that stomach is full eggs, not full of food.

 

[spamin76]

I am buying a new tank. The 30 is my current tank. I am setting up a 72 bow with a refugium. Clams and mandarins would get eaten in my 90 - full of trigger fish. I have no intention on putting the mandarin in a 30. Never said I was putting either of the two into a tank I already have established... 30 gallon mini reef = sump!!

 

[misery]

My mandarin has taken a great liking to frozen cyclops-eeze.. I picked mine up as sort of a 'mercy purchase' from a local chain LFS- figuring that I could trade it off after it decimated my pod population. Lo and behold, it eats the eeze!

I kinda wish it would go near my clam though.. that would be a great picture, a mandarin and a teal clam