I know, that sounds really bad.
I don’t have one yet, don’t worry.
In my ten gallon, I have my precious little Yellow Clown Goby, Bubs.
Getting him to eat processed food was going to be very hard as well as dangerous because he’s small even for a clown goby. (Around 3/4 of an inch.)
So I was alright with buying live copepods for the rest of time. He is my favorite fish out of all I’ve ever kept.
So I basically spoon-fed him, and of course some copepods got away. I’ve fed I think 4 species, but the main ones in the tank are a Tisbe and Apocylops.
After only a few days they had seemed to colonize the tank. And then an explosion of munnid isopods followed. Now the populations of both are rather steady, and I rarely see a speck of detritus or algae anywhere except for the coralline of course.
Bubs frenzies as soon as the lights go out, and I haven’t fed him directly in over a month now and he’s as plump and happy as ever.
I add some live phytoplankton from a little culture tube, and seachem zooplankton every now and then as a treat to the corals which I bet really benefits the copepods. As well as my 15~20 lbs of live rock.
What was I talking about?
Right, Dragonets.
I know they are notoriously hard to feed, because of the live only situation, but would it be able to scale up my tank right now?
Rough, very rough, math being that my little 1 inch fish can’t even put a dent in the micro fauna populations in his ten gallon. So a 55 gallon with this sort of micro fauna can support a mandarin?
It’s probably childish and Naive, but I’ve always wanted a mandarin, they are beautiful fish, and it would really help if they could live off the rocks.
He’d be alone too, super busy tanks just stress me out. Save for some CUC cause emerald crabs are my favorite.
This is a long term plan, nothing is set yet. Just want someone who has seen their appetite to give me their thoughts.
Thanks.
PS this is my little guy bubs.
I don’t have one yet, don’t worry.
In my ten gallon, I have my precious little Yellow Clown Goby, Bubs.
Getting him to eat processed food was going to be very hard as well as dangerous because he’s small even for a clown goby. (Around 3/4 of an inch.)
So I was alright with buying live copepods for the rest of time. He is my favorite fish out of all I’ve ever kept.
So I basically spoon-fed him, and of course some copepods got away. I’ve fed I think 4 species, but the main ones in the tank are a Tisbe and Apocylops.
After only a few days they had seemed to colonize the tank. And then an explosion of munnid isopods followed. Now the populations of both are rather steady, and I rarely see a speck of detritus or algae anywhere except for the coralline of course.
Bubs frenzies as soon as the lights go out, and I haven’t fed him directly in over a month now and he’s as plump and happy as ever.
I add some live phytoplankton from a little culture tube, and seachem zooplankton every now and then as a treat to the corals which I bet really benefits the copepods. As well as my 15~20 lbs of live rock.
What was I talking about?
Right, Dragonets.
I know they are notoriously hard to feed, because of the live only situation, but would it be able to scale up my tank right now?
Rough, very rough, math being that my little 1 inch fish can’t even put a dent in the micro fauna populations in his ten gallon. So a 55 gallon with this sort of micro fauna can support a mandarin?
It’s probably childish and Naive, but I’ve always wanted a mandarin, they are beautiful fish, and it would really help if they could live off the rocks.
He’d be alone too, super busy tanks just stress me out. Save for some CUC cause emerald crabs are my favorite.
This is a long term plan, nothing is set yet. Just want someone who has seen their appetite to give me their thoughts.
Thanks.
PS this is my little guy bubs.