Question

[Holly]

Do you think an established 180g can support a red scooter blenny and two mandarinfish?

My scooter and female mandarin are both fat and happy, doing great, and the tank's been up a-year-and-a-half. The female seems to be doing so well that I'm thinking of getting a male for her.

'Just thought I'd get a concensus before I tried it.

THANKS!

[Michael7979]

Do you have any other 'pod eating' fish?

3 would be MAX in my eyes but you could probably get by as long as no other 'pod eaters' were there or introduced.

[CCR]

And your supply of pod's doesn't diminish. The introduction should be at night. The other "pod" eaters will temperamentally eat more as the competition is increased. Other than that, It's good. Do It :)

[Holly]

We've got a small yellow gobi and a 6line, but they both eat mysid daily as their primary food source, so I'm not sure if they make much of a difference..? I've never seen the gobi sifting sand, but the wrasse pecks opportunistically at the rocks during the daytime.

I've had all my stock for a long time except the mandarin which I added several weeks ago. She's plumped up, and the scooter still looks good, so I thought maybe the tank could support just one more pod eater....

[CCR]

Go for it:)

[impur]

Yah go for it. My mandarin eats frozen now and pods :D

[Nyles]

Ya, I have had good luck with mine too, there are NO copepods in my tank due to some treatments I did and the mandarin eats prepared foods exclusively, however don't expect this as from research will tell you otherwise. Soon as I find a good source of pods I will reseed.... Impur? LOL.

[impur]

Ya, I have had good luck with mine too, there are NO copepods in my tank due to some treatments I did and the mandarin eats prepared foods exclusively, however don't expect this as from research will tell you otherwise. Soon as I find a good source of pods I will reseed.... Impur? LOL.

Yah no prob. I'm doing my WC tonight, i'll drop in a few pieces of sponge for them to populate and you can have that.

[Holly]

**making mental note that Impur is the person to hit up for pods**(whistle)

I got a male mandarin from WAVES this afternoon. YAY! Thanks Joel!!(clap)

The new male's quite a bit smaller than my female (half her size, I'd guess). I hope that won't be a problemoooo. She's shown zero signs of aggression up to now but I haven't put him in yet--he's drip acclimating. Another 5min to go!! 'Guess I'll soon see! (fish)

[Holly]

I put the new guy in, and the "big female" made a bee-line for him and out came "her" display fin. It's a MALE!!!DOH! He's never displayed the big fin before, and I've been LOOKING FOR IT for two weeks (to make sure I had a female).(booboo) ..So now I have two males...and I'm worried that the smaller one might get hurt by the larger one..?(scary) Is that possible?..

[dsoz]

OOPS! I would check to see if you can take the new guy back and trade for a cute gal to replace it.

[Holly]

I've been unsuccessful in my attempts to catch him but I plan to keep trying... Don't think my fish trap will work since he doesn't seem interested in non-pod foods right now...