Anyone who exclusively eats PODS.
Mandarin, Scooters, anyone who has that mandarin mouth configuration.
I have never added a pod.
Will crabs destroy my pod populations?
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Anyone who exclusively eats PODS.
Mandarin, Scooters, anyone who has that mandarin mouth configuration.
I have never added a pod.
Oldreeferman
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I have personally seen my Royal Gamma & both my Osc Clowns constantly on the hunt when pods were introduced & flourishing. I added my pods after dark late & the next day these fish were scouring every corner of my tank eyeing everything very closely for pods.
Granted i am not hosting the Clowns with an anemone so they roam freely constantly.
But a lot of species will hunt & eat pods not just mandarin & scooter blennys.
Even my Watchman Goby is a serious constant feeder of pods, micro brittle stars and anything tiny within eye sight and reach near the bottom so...............
1 pod eater can be a very tough decision depending on the fish introduced along with a mandarin, one can very easily mistake a regular predator for a non pod eater but in reality it will also hunt & consume your precious pods.
Best advice i can give is all fish are different & many of the meat eaters can/will hunt pods, if you find you got one that is eating your Mandarins pods then you will have to supplement pods or remove the fish & you really won't know till its in your tank TBH. This is another time when having a huge tank & refug covers a prob.
Granted i am not hosting the Clowns with an anemone so they roam freely constantly.
But a lot of species will hunt & eat pods not just mandarin & scooter blennys.
Even my Watchman Goby is a serious constant feeder of pods, micro brittle stars and anything tiny within eye sight and reach near the bottom so...............
1 pod eater can be a very tough decision depending on the fish introduced along with a mandarin, one can very easily mistake a regular predator for a non pod eater but in reality it will also hunt & consume your precious pods.
Best advice i can give is all fish are different & many of the meat eaters can/will hunt pods, if you find you got one that is eating your Mandarins pods then you will have to supplement pods or remove the fish & you really won't know till its in your tank TBH. This is another time when having a huge tank & refug covers a prob.
