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Is my aquarium ready for a Mandarin Goby?


joer3

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I've been wanting one for a while but everybody has always told me not to get one because of their diet. Well, it's been three years now and my aquarium is fairly established. I think I'm ready for one. Let me know your thoughts.

 

Aquarium stats:

60 gallon aquarium w/ 2" sand bed.

20 gallon sump/refuge w/ DSB.

75 lb of live rock.

 

Livestock:

(2) True Perculas

(1) Coral Beauty

(3) Bubble Tip Anemones

(2) Fire Shrimp

(1) Cleaner Shrimp

(1) Electric Blue Crab

 

The rest of the live stock is your standard CUC with some LPS and Zoas.

 

Do you think my aquarium is ready for a Mandarin Goby?

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Do you see lots of pods runnung around?

Mostly at night. All over the LR and walking around in the sand. I hardly see any in the day. The sump is also well populated.

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They can clean a tank out in no time. The problem lies in getting them to eat prepared foods. If you can find one in the store ask them to feed it for you. If it take the prepared food then you should do alright.

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You have a jaming system for that little fishee...

But keep in Mind the Expend a ton of energy checking things out.

I would still try to find one thats excepting frozen food...or be ready

to keep your pod population up.

Awesome fish...If you gave it the best of both worlds... B)

He will last much longer and enjoy his new home. :)

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Izzue

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jamesnmandy

absolutely yes! we just got one recently, our system is a 75 gal display with a 20 gal sump, fuge, well established, etc..etc...

 

we are stocking:

one Sailfin Tang

one Male and one Female Anthias

one Engineer Goby

one Pseudochromis

two Clowns

one Skunk Cleaner Shrimp

one Emerald Crab

and one Tiger Tail Cucumber

 

of course an assortment of hermits and snails, zoos, torch coral, xenia, mushrooms, GSP, trumpet coral, etc....

 

when it's lights out, if you walk up quietly and cut on a flashlight our rockwork looks like a disturbed antbed with pods, sump/fuge is the same way, my chaeto is teeming with them, it's been a good month or more now, no signs of pod population decreasing, fat belly on him and all, quite happy

 

one thing i have been doing that seems to have been helping keep the pod population rabid is dosing some of the Brightwell Aquatics Zooplanktos_M supplement, especially in the fuge, the pods go crazy for it!!

 

good luck!

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I would read up some more on it, but I def. think your tank can handle it. As stated above, check out feeding with frozen, there is a member here that feeds using a small cup that they rest in the sandbed, the fish eats out of it.

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Lizzie1324

Sounds great. I wish I had the money to get a set up like this. :)

Just keep an eye out, and I think getting one that has a nice full belly to start is a good sign. One that eats frozen would be even better.

And I saw a place once that had them with seahorses and had a bunch of live brine in the tank, and they looked nice and healthy. Just my 2 cents.

B)

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jamesnmandy
Sounds great. I wish I had the money to get a set up like this. :)

Just keep an eye out, and I think getting one that has a nice full belly to start is a good sign. One that eats frozen would be even better.

And I saw a place once that had them with seahorses and had a bunch of live brine in the tank, and they looked nice and healthy. Just my 2 cents.

B)

 

i forgot to mention, i drop a bit of brine eggs in my sump periodically too, havent seen any hatch yet, but it looks like the pods are eating them too fast, which is a good thing

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