Crooked Reef
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I may be being overly cautious on this but wanted opinions on adding a mandarin dragonet to my display tank. Current tank is a 90 gallon with a rock wall with live rock and sand. Sump does not have a chaeto or rock but has a liter of siporax rings in a bag and a liter of marine pure spheres so there is some growth area for pods. Tank has been running for 21 months. All of this makes it a yes until my other questions.
1) tank mates I am concerned of eating pods are a pair of black ice clownfish, royal gramma, African flame back angel and a 4-5" dusky wrasse. The wrasse is the one I am most concerned with outcompeting the dragonet.
2) Anemones. Two mini maxis, 4 bubble tips (red 3" across, two rainbows 4" and 6" across, green 4".) there is also a rock flower but that one is not near as sticky as the mini maxis. Since dragonets hover and perch while they are constantly hunting will the nems pose a threat?
3) I am not looking on training this fish to eat frozen or to raise brine shrimp for it to eat. I know that supplementing these foods can help but the digestive tract of dragonets makes them to where they need to hunt and eat constantly. I can't rely on a daily frozen feeding or once a day brine supplementation to keep this fish fat and content.
1) tank mates I am concerned of eating pods are a pair of black ice clownfish, royal gramma, African flame back angel and a 4-5" dusky wrasse. The wrasse is the one I am most concerned with outcompeting the dragonet.
2) Anemones. Two mini maxis, 4 bubble tips (red 3" across, two rainbows 4" and 6" across, green 4".) there is also a rock flower but that one is not near as sticky as the mini maxis. Since dragonets hover and perch while they are constantly hunting will the nems pose a threat?
3) I am not looking on training this fish to eat frozen or to raise brine shrimp for it to eat. I know that supplementing these foods can help but the digestive tract of dragonets makes them to where they need to hunt and eat constantly. I can't rely on a daily frozen feeding or once a day brine supplementation to keep this fish fat and content.