All Of My New Fish Are Dead!!!!! Need Some Help.

[oceansidefish]

Originally Posted by Life~Reefer
http:///forum/post/2976609
I don't want to get into this quarrel but i think a mandarin is fine in a tank that size after copepods have had time to multiply. I would wait a month more and add a bag of copepods each week just to be safe but that is just me. : )
PS: i see your from the hampton roads area what LFS do you go to?? Hopefully reef chief! Man i love that store!!
The problem is the Manderin AND the scooter they are both pod eaters...One or the other would be ok. Although I would guess you would last about a year with either.
Figure it this way...I have a 120g and don't think I have enough to support either, let alone both.

 

[hlcroghan]

With the regard to the Mandarin, it is most widely excepted that they need at least 100 gallons for them to be able to eat properly, however, the owner of the lfs that I trust, who qt's all fish before selling them and actually breeds clowns in his store (it looks like a lab in the back!!) has had some success in hand feeding ova to mandarins and scooters......its pretty amazing. they come right up to the eye dropper and eat like a baby on a bottle. I guess that he feeds them once a day and they also eat some of the pods in the tank but it never gets depleted. He had them in 20 gallon tanks for 6 months to year and they were very fat and healthy, so IF you were able to train the mandarin to eat this way.....then I would say go for it. He had about three over the last couple years that he was able to do that with. Something to consider. The ova comes in a frozen flat sheet and he broke a .5" by .5" piece off to feed it every day of thawed food. I guess it is great for corals too!! Something I am looking into more.

 

[nigerbang]

Originally Posted by hlcroghan
http:///forum/post/2976655
With the regard to the Mandarin, it is most widely excepted that they need at least 100 gallons for them to be able to eat properly, however, the owner of the lfs that I trust, who qt's all fish before selling them and actually breeds clowns in his store (it looks like a lab in the back!!) has had some success in hand feeding ova to mandarins and scooters......its pretty amazing. they come right up to the eye dropper and eat like a baby on a bottle. I guess that he feeds them once a day and they also eat some of the pods in the tank but it never gets depleted. He had them in 20 gallon tanks for 6 months to year and they were very fat and healthy, so IF you were able to train the mandarin to eat this way.....then I would say go for it. He had about three over the last couple years that he was able to do that with. Something to consider. The ova comes in a frozen flat sheet and he broke a .5" by .5" piece off to feed it every day of thawed food. I guess it is great for corals too!! Something I am looking into more.

IF is a big word in that statment..no all will eat prepared foods

 

[hlcroghan]

Originally Posted by NigerBang
http:///forum/post/2976658
IF is a big word in that statment..no all will eat prepared foods
Absolutely! I have asked him to try and train a green mandarin for me. If he is successful, I will probably try to buy it for my 29 rectangle. I have a ton of pods that I seeded but I know it would never survive without being fed other things. i would love to have one now but won't put one in my tank if it wil starve in a couple months.

 

[oceansidefish]

I think the other big "if" is before we recommend things like this...If your average hobbyist is willing and able to do this on a daily basis...

 

[tdog7879]

Originally Posted by Oceansidefish
http:///forum/post/2976772
I think the other big "if" is before we recommend things like this...If your average hobbyist is willing and able to do this on a daily basis...
WHO you calling average?????

 

[oceansidefish]

Originally Posted by tdog7879
http:///forum/post/2976779
WHO you calling average?????
The average hobbyist... such as myself. I don't have things that need to be fed every single day other than the fish, which can go a day without food. Since I have a busy life a crazy job and a giant of a dog....there are no gaurantees in the feeding of corals or special needs fish.