Too soon for a Ruby Red Dragonette?

[garbermatt]

So although my 120 has only been going for two months, I've been cultivating copepods for the last month or so in two five gallon buckets and have had a steady enough supply to keep my DT walls crawling with them despite my purple tang and golden angel snacking on them all day.

I have enough in the buckets to harvest every week or so. Does this enough to sustain a red dragonette?

 

[mike61289]

I would hold off on it. Your mandarin will likely feed exclusively on those pods, but I'm sure your tang and angel are taking prepared foods, nori, and picking at algae on the rocks too. Despite the mandarin's size, even a small one can wipe out the pod population pretty fast.

 

[garbermatt]

Yeah I thought that might be the case. I'll keep propagating and see how much of a population I can maintain.


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