Copepods

[Treebeard]

Sounds like a plan. I will get to work on the refugium tomorrow.

Thanks for the advice.

[fishoholic]

FYI your tank is to small for one tang never mind two, even if they are small now they will grow bigger. I hope you know you will need to upgrade your tank size to at least a 90g (bigger would be better) if you plan on keeping the tangs.

Some mandrains will eat mysis and if your real lucky pellets too. If you can get yours to eat mysis or pellets (mine does) then your golden, if not a sump with a refugium will help.

[Treebeard]

That's the plan! My sump is sized for a much larger tank and if the tangs grow too large before I can set up a larger tank, I will be posting here to make a trade.

Originally Posted by fishoholic

FYI your tank is to small for one tang never mind two, even if they are small now they will grow bigger. I hope you know you will need to upgrade your tank size to at least a 90g (bigger would be better) if you plan on keeping the tangs.

[justinl]

imo a 46 is too small to sustain a pod population big enough for a mandarin and all the other fish in there that hunt pods... and most of them do. I would just return the mandarin.

[workn2hard2day]

We have an established (2yrs) 130g when we got a MG he was large and healthy. He did not survive, made it about 3 months . Even if you set up a refugium and get copepods established it is still tricky to get the food to the MG. Good Luck, I hope yours makes it!

[kwirky]

sand seems to help with copepod populations I've seen. Bare bottom tanks don't seem to have as many copepods as most sand bottomed tanks, I've observed.

[Treebeard]

Guess that would explain why he spends a lot of time pecking at the sand bed in my tank.

Originally Posted by kwirky

sand seems to help with copepod populations I've seen. Bare bottom tanks don't seem to have as many copepods as most sand bottomed tanks, I've observed.