Mandarin goby
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Lavey29
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Probably but the tank would have to be mature with a sustainable amount of pods.
Court_Appointed_Hypeman
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With how many pods mine eats in my 75 with a 10 gallon fuge, you will need to plan for supplimenting availability of live foods.
It will do fone in a 20 long, but with how frequently they eat, I think even if you get one that accepts pellets or frozen, that you will need to make sure it has a constant supply of pods at least a little beyond what would be capable of naturally reproducing in a 20 with no fuge.
Personally, I would constantly be hatching brine, as that might be more economical than buying copepods, but if you culture pods you are set.
Food concerns aside, I think a 20 long is not a bad size, give it lots of rock surface area to poke at.
Edit: mine has yet to eat anything other than live food consistently, maybe if you got one that ate pellets, maybe the constant food source would be unnecessary, I don't know honestly.
It will do fone in a 20 long, but with how frequently they eat, I think even if you get one that accepts pellets or frozen, that you will need to make sure it has a constant supply of pods at least a little beyond what would be capable of naturally reproducing in a 20 with no fuge.
Personally, I would constantly be hatching brine, as that might be more economical than buying copepods, but if you culture pods you are set.
Food concerns aside, I think a 20 long is not a bad size, give it lots of rock surface area to poke at.
Edit: mine has yet to eat anything other than live food consistently, maybe if you got one that ate pellets, maybe the constant food source would be unnecessary, I don't know honestly.
SeaHorseQueen
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I have mine in a 20g H and hatch bbs all the time plus culture copepods. He’ll hunt all day.
Lavey29
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Size wise it's probably ok but man those fish can eat. I have a very mature 80g system and I still have to add a jar of pods each week. That's 100 bucks a month.
Court_Appointed_Hypeman
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No fuge? If you do, I solved ny lack of pods issues by no longer manually removing algaes ans letting the pods build up there population, and stopped using filter socks.
Lavey29
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Yea I have a thriving fuge with pods. But they have to swim by the skimmer chamber and bubble trap to make it to the return pump chamber.
PA-Chris
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Food source is more important than tank size for mandarins. The live shrimp mentioned is good source to keep them going in my experience. I have mine in A 32 gallon fujicube. He is now eating frozen baby brine shrimp from hikari. Hope this helps.
Court_Appointed_Hypeman
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That should at least help a lot, if I feel like I have a pod shirtage in ny display, I shut off filtration in between the fuge and return and shake my aqua mech and chaeto to make some go through. I don't know if it works for sure, but seems to. My only filtration in between the 2 is a carbon reactor though.
Court_Appointed_Hypeman
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Do you have to feed the frozen food frequently through the day to keeo it fed? I hear about how little food they can consume at a time and wondered if it was possible to have a very pod limited environment and still keep a mandarin going on just a few feedings a day
PA-Chris
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I have only been feeding two times a day, but turn off fulters for 30 minutes to give the frozen food a chance to cycle through and the mandarin time to find it. Has been working so far. Have had the little guy a few months. I hope this helps. They are really cool little fish.
1epauletteshark
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I hatch BBS daily and feed 3 times a day to keep up with nutritional needs on my small mandarin in my 17 gallon and she is still doing great.
