Amphipods Copepods
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is this a good breeding and grow out setup for copepods and amphipods?
hello,
i am trying to do a daunting task by keeping a mandarin goby in a nano tank. there are plenty of pods in the tank now and i supplement with a bottle of tiger pods once a month. hes as fat as a cigar. but, now the bottles of pods are racking up a bill.
so, i was thinking of using an old 5 gallon marineland eclipse all in one fish tank with a filter and light as somewhat of a refugim that is not plumbed to the main tank.
i was thinking to do this:
5 gallon filtered and lighted tank with live rock, macro algae, cheato, etc.., get a pod culture ( not tiger as they are cold water and do not breed), and phyto plankton.
and once the population takes off, put a bunch in my main tank weekly.
how does that sound? do you think it will work?
do you think that set up will work well? and how long will it take for them to breed?
also, are there any small fish that i can stick in just for the looks that won’t eat the pods?
thanks a lot!
Hey, Will L, you sent me on over here from a pond question. You can try the culture tank, which some people do have success with. Essentially, you are building a detached refugium. However, the one problem you might find is in catching the pods from that tank to put them into the other. They’re a swift bunch of creatures, surprisingly quick and agile!
Believe me, when I first got my Northern pipefish, I was sorely tempted to try to catch some in the estuary before realizing it wasn’t worth my time and effort when they readily consume enriched brine with gusto and will take mysis on the occasion (*they’re showing more interest in the mysis now, after about four weeks, but, as most wild caught fish with unusual dietary needs like pipes, seahorses, mandarins, etc., it’s a process.)
I would try that in conjunction with Black Cat’s suggestion in search of something that might be a little more workable. There’s a wonderful article in the back issues of TFH. It’s actually somewhere in my house, but I just can’t seem to find the issue to describe the technique. Anywho, you can also probably find the steps if you google “mandarin diner,” as this is the term coined for setting up a small feeding station for mandarins.
By all means, though, do set up a pod culture, though, even if you attempt a “mandarin diner” or feeding station. This way, even as your mandarin is learning to take to the feeding station, it is still getting the food it needs, and, in addition to that, if the diner technique fails, you already have a pod colony in the works.
As per what kind of fish, it would really depend on the size of the tank (”nano” being a loosely associated range of sizes). Personally, I love bicolor blennies as they tend to ignore anything (*that doesn’t look like them), have curious little personalities, and will pick at algae. While they aren’t as voracious with the algae control as the lawnmower, the bicolor takes better to staple foods and has lovely coloring. Any truly peaceful blenny or goby will do nice so long as it is NOT the scooter blenny (scooters are actually a form of dragonet despite what the name implies). You could also consider a form of cardinal such as the bangaii or the pajama (*very peaceful, passive to a fault, fairly common to find, not terribly bank breaking, and not pod eaters in the slightest).
Whatever you do, though, avoid the sixline wrasse. They’re a common animal for nano tanks, but they’ll devour pod populations just as swiftly as a dragonet. Certain specimens also get aggressive with age.
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