coltsfan80
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will mandarin fish eat tigger pods?
mandarin question
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coltsfan80
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ok thank you..I received a dragonet for my birthday...and my tank is about 6 months old, so i should have my own pods but I dont wanna starve her, so i bought a bottle...they were like 22.00 bucks, so hopefully they will start to multiply, then after a while i wont have to buy them anymore...
thanks guys!
thanks guys!
I'm not even aware of what they are but make sure you have little pod piles for them to hide in and have a chance to multiply. That is just piles of small rocks. Too late for this advice, but if you get more, put them in at night so they have a chance to hide.
EvilMel
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If you are talking about putting them in a 6 month old 29g tank, even with tiggerpods it's probably not going to work. I'm sorry to say that your pod population will probably not be sufficient to maintain this fish for the long term. Doing things like making little pod piles as Debi suggested will help, but I find it highly unlikely that you will able to make that fish fat and healthy for a long time.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
jmaneyapanda
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mandarins can learn to eat prepared food. mine eats mysis, formula 1 and 2, and pellets. a well established tank is certainly a major benefit, but a mandarin in a smaller less established tank is NOT a death sentence.
I agree with this statement. Definately start working on him eating prepared foods. This is probably one of the most helpful articles on mandarins.
http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2005-02/nftt/index.php
Once you have them eating pellets you don't always have to have the jar in.
BUT---a starving fish will not change foods. A wellfed fish with a ravenous appetite will occasionally start eating everybody else's stuff. So feed him a lot of copepods. I use tigger pods, and, very important! I keep feeding phytoplankton to the tank, which assures a healthy pod population.
The side benefits are wild duster, sponge, and clam growth, and any other filter feeder gets its share. I think a very healthy pod population also helps control film algae.
The side benefits are wild duster, sponge, and clam growth, and any other filter feeder gets its share. I think a very healthy pod population also helps control film algae.
jmaneyapanda
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the important point to consider is that people should not buy these fish expecting them to immediate eat flake in a tank full of mid water food mongers. be smart, do your research. sometimes people tend to imply that a mandarin in a tank that is not 20 years old and 8 million gallons and 5 million pounds of LR will doom a mandarin. almost an urban legend.
EvilMel
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What I meant was that the amount of effort it will take to keep a mandarin alive in a tank that small is not really something I see the average person doing.
I also stand by my original statement though that a mandarin in a tank as small as a 29g that is only 6 months old will mostly likely not do well. There are exceptions (and you guys may be one or two of them) but in general most people need to have an established tank and a really large pod population to keep these fish healthy.
I do agree with you though that it is a possibility that it could do well if a lot of effort is put into it's care and maintenance.
I also stand by my original statement though that a mandarin in a tank as small as a 29g that is only 6 months old will mostly likely not do well. There are exceptions (and you guys may be one or two of them) but in general most people need to have an established tank and a really large pod population to keep these fish healthy.
I do agree with you though that it is a possibility that it could do well if a lot of effort is put into it's care and maintenance.
Ironsheikh
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try the flying fish roe trick to fatten it up too
daytonians
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