Stocking Biocube 32, On Right Track?

[dmmitchell]

Preparing to stock a well-cycled Biocube. No coral in it (yet?) but plenty of live rock.

Thinking of the following. Preparing to be told that this is too much. I appreciate your expertise.

ORA Blue Mandarin
Watchman Goby or Orange Spotter Goby and Pistol Shrimp
Purple Firefish
Royal Gramma
Madagascar Croucher Goby
Fire Red Shrimp

 

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Do you have pods? Also all the gobies might eachother

 

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sorry, all the gobies must fight eachother

 

[Biokabe]

Just a word of caution on the mandarin - they have a tendency to starve themselves if you don't have a robust pod population. The ORA ones are trained on artificial foods, but even then, they really need a good background of pods to do well. If you don't mind culturing pods for him, it could work in a BC 32, but I'd approach that with extreme caution.

 

[dmmitchell]

There are pods in the tank ... not sure of the size of the colony. Was hopeful that the ORA variety would be a lot easier.

 

[Flame2hawk]

There are pods in the tank ... not sure of the size of the colony. Was hopeful that the ORA variety would be a lot easier.

The 32 bio is nice set up but don’t believe It will produce enough pods without having a sump/refrugium or adding pods regularly.

 

[dmmitchell]

What would we be talking about in terms of adding pods? How many how often?