Small tank setup for mandarin goby food

[Kes1221]

Hello.

We recently purchased a mandarin goby and want to set up a small tank to grow its food. Anyone have a small setup (5 gallons or smaller) they want to get rid of (or a better way to do this) let me know please!

Thanks!

[acepumping]

go out and buy some of the live pods and throw them in your tank, thats the best and let them live in there. thats all i did

[Enigma]

It would be better to use smaller containers, and have several cultures going: to ensure that if one crashes, you still have some left.

What is it that you want to culture?

[soapy]

How big is your display tank? What other fish do you have? Is the mandarin eating frozen by any chance?

[Kes1221]

We bought some live pods last night but we want to be able to cut out that middle man and give them a place to live as well so we have more of a supply when we need it.

We haven't dug too deep into what we want as of yet but from what we can find on the internet we want to try and culture copepods. As that is what we are told they want to eat.

Our tank is 40 gallons, with a couple crushed rock piles in the corners. We know the mandarin will feed from there but we were told they would probably eat what we might have in the thank in a day or so.
Right now she is the only fish with a couple shrirmps, crabs, corals and snails.

We havent tried the frozen food approach yet (we did buy Mysis as well) as she has been shy and hiding behind and under some rock for the most part...

[Northernseacorals]

Before you invest in shipping pods around the globe, you should try the frozen food as soon as possible, you will either confirm or rule it out; then you should set to work acquiring pods.

As Enigma already said; I would use the method of running some cultures in smaller containers; fail safe will be best for the fish

http://www.oceanpods.com/faq.html#culture

Check the above link for a little motivation and help.