artful13dodger
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Greetings,
I recently added a diver's den copperband butterfly, and it's been doing great. Attacks frozen mysis, but largely ignores frozen brine (trying to thaw them together to mix 'scents').
My questions is: I notice the CBB grazing for pods almost constantly... way more than I expected. I also had planned to add a red mandarin in a few weeks... will the pod supply be enough to sustain both? The CBB gets frozen as well, but the mandarin I think eats pods only.
I know tough to judge... just looking for how risky it is (if at all)
It's a 120G reef, several years established. So far, only the CBB eats pods (I'm cancelling plans for the sixline). Large section of the 40G sump is healthy refugiam, lots of pods below and chaeto to crawl over.
Can a CBB and mandarin both have enough in this system? Obviously, there's no absolute answer... looking more for "risky" or "50/50" or "probably safe" -type assessments.
I recently added a diver's den copperband butterfly, and it's been doing great. Attacks frozen mysis, but largely ignores frozen brine (trying to thaw them together to mix 'scents').
My questions is: I notice the CBB grazing for pods almost constantly... way more than I expected. I also had planned to add a red mandarin in a few weeks... will the pod supply be enough to sustain both? The CBB gets frozen as well, but the mandarin I think eats pods only.
I know tough to judge... just looking for how risky it is (if at all)
It's a 120G reef, several years established. So far, only the CBB eats pods (I'm cancelling plans for the sixline). Large section of the 40G sump is healthy refugiam, lots of pods below and chaeto to crawl over.
Can a CBB and mandarin both have enough in this system? Obviously, there's no absolute answer... looking more for "risky" or "50/50" or "probably safe" -type assessments.
