I'm scared it will decimate my pod-ulation and stsrve
I have many but don't want 8t to eat them all
me personally I care more about fish lives than copepods... I'd keep it wherever it can survive until you have a permanent home available. If you don't want it, give it to LFS but a lot of times mandarins die at LFS. They get stuck in tiny 1 gallon areas and eat all the pods almost immediately. a 15 gallon tank is way bigger than what the LFS will probably put them in. But who knows, you can call the LFS and see what they say.
The reason I'm willing to bring it to my lfs is cause they keep 40 breeders and they'd probably put it into their frag tanks with Fat mandarins. I'm thinking that my lfs might be my best bet
Does live work?
mnn, maybe give to LFS or other reefer. they need lots of pods. You could keep them in a 15 gallon outfitted with lots of macro, likely a fuge and some pod dosing.Someone shut down their tank and gave me a mandarin goby and my 35 is cycling and I put it into my 15g. What should I do with it? Its just a wild mandarin and it had torn fins and I feel bad for it. Should I give it to my lfs? Wait for my tank to cycle?
try it, not 100% sure itll work either way since its wild.
I'm in canada
Well then to fragbox it shall go.
Live bloodworms do work. However they are not the ideal food for the long term. If you have access to TLF Zoplan, it usually gets a good feeding response. I've had some luck with Small firstbite marine pellets as well. Feed little and several times a day if you are able to
I can vouch for this!! My girl, captive bred, eats copepods and live brine shrimp but also eats frozen. Having said that she turns her nose up at frozen mysis/brine shrimp but gobbles down blood worms. I don't know if the red colour draws her in. I cut up the bloodworms into smaller pieces using scissors because she's still a baby. I also give her bloodworms soaked in Selcon a couple times a week. My other fish gobble them up as well.
