Cycling/copepods/confusion

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Originally Posted by daniella3d

A mandarin will eat all of your pods in a day or 2 and starve to death. YOU need at least 70 lbs of liverock and a very well established tank, minimum of 6 months, unless the mandarin is accepting frozen food.

Any trace of ammonia is a no go for any fish. Even 0.5 will kill a fish in few hours to a day. At high PH any trace of ammonia is extremely toxic.

Also to have a thriving mandarin, you must not have other fish in the aquarium that compete with it for pods. Anything that eats pods will make your mandarin starve.

Absolutely correct. A well established tank is essential to long term survival as is a constant supply of pods.

Toytech, your mandarin is doomed unless you are successful in switching her to marine food. Bloodworms are not marine food.