1 month old tank, how to prepare for red ruby

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Like the title say, what do I need to do to prepare for a pair of red ruby dragonette? Tank is 100 gallon with 50 gallon refugium full of red macro algae. Current fish stocking are below:

yellow coris wrasse
Tailspot blenny
Geometric hawk fish
Fire fish
Pair of regular clownfish
 

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Nothing special. Just add some pods such as tisbe or apocyclopes (not tigger) to the tank at night once and consider dosing phyto to keep their number up. A lot of ruby's that I have delt with eat frozen food too
 
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Thanks, going to order some pods and photo. Any recommendations?
 

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Coris and blenny are going to outcompete your slow-moving dragonettes.
I suggest you supplement your DT with whatever is recommended to keep pod populations high enough that they crawl on your glass regularly - as a gauge for their population level.
I'm sure others will recommend better than me.
 

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When I wanted to boost my pod levels in a 20g QT, I added 1 scoop daily of TLF PhytoPlan
Grows green film algae like crazy to feed pods
 

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