Twin Spot Goby Help

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Originally Posted by paddyob

Mandarins are expert only fish. Most will die in the hands of noobs. Mandarins rarely take frozen.

Do more research and don't buy anything until you know what you are getting in to.

Let the twin spot be.

As for a new tank, six months minimum before adding a Mandy or sifter. Let bugs populate.

Do you mean that I shouldn't treat it for internal parasites? That is counter to everything I've read about "successfully" keeping them. I'd rather not do it, but I thought it was required.

Or, do you mean it shouldn't be moved to the new display? Everything is moving from one to the other. Not moving it isn't an option I'm willing to consider.

A second tank (12 gallon nano cube) will be plumbed into the system to be a refugium to cultivate pods. That won't happen until the end of August or early September at the earliest. It would probably take months to get a healthy pod population. A mandarin would only be added after I had complete confidence in the population. I have done a lot of research on those, so I'm pretty confident in the plan. It all hinges on getting the require pod population.