New fish questions!

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Originally Posted by daniella3d

A mandarin cannot survive on "brine". Its not nutritious at all, not even the live ones.

If you can get your hands on a live white worms culture and start a good culture or two of these then you may have a chance.

Obviously though with 2 hippo that's a disaster in the making. Even one hippo in a 55 gallons is a disaster in perspective. One mandarin need around 70lbs of live rock to survive and lots of pods. Those pods need phyto plankton to survive. YOu might be able to get the pod population up if you use a refugium and feed your tank DT live phyto.

The live white worms are very rich and cannot be given to any fish as the only food source.

Where did the second hippo come from? I think you must have misread his post.