Can these live with mandarin goby?

[LAA]

i've heard of this in the past with these exact 2 fish. from what i was told the wrasse intrinsically knows they're competing for the same food source and sorts it out the way 6-lines do.

Interesting

 

[131696]

In a 125 gallon tank start pod population 6 months before you get 1. They will look like fleas in tank but be gone in 1 month in that 1 month you will have to keep the population up.

 

[LAA]

Yeah I have seen some but will need more. They stay in the refugium.

 

[Dakota_reef]

Has anyone tried turning lights and sump off and hold flashlight to tank to see if the copepods would go to the light? Is so has it worked?

I've not noticed them attracted to light when I've seem them, but I usually didn't use a flashlight.

 

[Jay'sReefBugs]

I've not noticed them attracted to light when I've seem them, but I usually didn't use a flashlight.

Most species aren't attracted to light . Also they aren't going to come out of substrate or rock work to go to the light natural instinct is to hide . Most of the hobby grade copepods aren't pelagic so you won't see them in the water colum . It's best to just let some film algea build up on the glass to try and draw some up out of the substrate. Even then the glass in a reef tank is only a vary small portion of surface area .

 

[LAA]

Ok, yeah I read somewhere that if you shown a flashlight into the dark tank they would swim to it. Thx for the info