Mandarin

[Fishfinder]

can 1 mandarin eat all the pods in a 210 to the point it runs out of food?

 

[Uncle99]

In that size, With lots of mature rock and assuming no other exclusive pod eater, nope.


In a new system, likely.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

I personally add both pods and phyto to speed pod growth for my small mandarin.

 

[Paul B]

It depends on the age of the tank and how it is maintained. I keep a pair of mandarins, a pair of scooter bleenies, a pair of bluestripe pipefish, a dragon-faced pipefish and a few other pod eaters, and I have never bought a pod in my life. But my tank is old. A newish tank wouldn't fare as well without adding pods.

 

[DaJMasta]

If it didn't have a sand bed or almost any live rock, maybe, but with a sand bed, live rock, and being a mature system, it should be just fine, probably even for two, provided there weren't lots of other copepod eaters around.