Any quick pod growth tips?

a2hotz

a2hotz

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I want to get a mandarin goby really bad but I dont think theres enough for him to eat yet and I dont want to wait a long time to get him. Is there any way to speed up the pod growth? I dont know of anything that they eat besides that. Has any one else found a food for them? Anyone tried frozen cyclop-eeze?
 
laddy

laddy

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I would get a refuge about yaaaah big (holding arms out as wide as a 75g) and fill it with as much live rock as you can, from multiple sources.
 
sharkbait9

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Originally Posted by richie1742
FUGE + POD PILE =

equals what....... a dancing banana :notsure: I would have thought a breeding ground for pods. I’ll have to try it, I think having a dancing banana would be cool.
 
miaheatlvr

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Gotta have a fuge or a well established tank with a ton of LR,, MY PODS LOVE and thrive on "Liquis Life" Pankton! they go nuts!
 
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nereef

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Originally Posted by sharkbait9
equals what....... a dancing banana :notsure: I would have thought a breeding ground for pods. I’ll have to try it, I think having a dancing banana would be cool.

it equals peanut butter jelly time, duh.
some sponges hidden in the back of the tank behind the rocks works well. just make sure you don't buy a sponge with added household cleaners.
 
dueces

dueces

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I am setting up a refugium and have to buy some pods. Do I need anything for them, ie food or supplements? Should I wait untill the fuge is established before getting the pods or put them after a few days?
thanks
 
fishstix4u

fishstix4u

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my mandarin absolutly goes nuts for frozen brine.. its great to watch him try to catch it! they move so offy... and pecks at them and misses half the time then has to chase it around.. but hell eat the stuff all day long.. but i also have a ton of pods as well.. and alot of mandarins wont eat anything but pods but i had good luck along with alot of people i know.. i had the store drop some brine in the tank and when he took it i new i wanted thta one.. hes fat healthy and been with me for about 3 months now... good luck if you get him but please tell me you have a fuge?!?!? but the pods on line and give it a week or two at least... your mandarins life is worth a week.. good luck!
 
miaheatlvr

miaheatlvr

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Originally Posted by dueces
I am setting up a refugium and have to buy some pods. Do I need anything for them, ie food or supplements? Should I wait untill the fuge is established before getting the pods or put them after a few days?
thanks

I did suppliment my pods with some off the Bidding site though! now I thousands thank god!
 
dueces

dueces

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Originally Posted by MiaHeatLvr
I did suppliment my pods with some off the Bidding site though! now I thousands thank god!
Explain more please..What stuff did you supplement them with?
 
lubeck

lubeck

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if you have ample live rock currently and you buy pods online...like 4 bottles.... you wait a month to give the pods time to reproduce you will have enough. just be sure you have lots of live rock for them to breed in. also you don't need to suppliment ANY food for teh pods IMO. they have plenty of food from you feeding as well from teh live rock.
 
1journeyman

1journeyman

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Originally Posted by FishStix4u
my mandarin absolutly goes nuts for frozen brine.. its great to watch him try to catch it! they move so offy... and pecks at them and misses half the time then has to chase it around.. but hell eat the stuff all day long.. but i also have a ton of pods as well.. and alot of mandarins wont eat anything but pods but i had good luck along with alot of people i know.. i had the store drop some brine in the tank and when he took it i new i wanted thta one.. hes fat healthy and been with me for about 3 months now... good luck if you get him but please tell me you have a fuge?!?!? but the pods on line and give it a week or two at least... your mandarins life is worth a week.. good luck!
Fish cannot live on brine shrimp, however.
Another critical question we've left out of this discussion is what fish will the Mandarin be competing with? Unless you have a large tank and a productive refugium fish like Wrasses will eat all of the pods.
 
fishstix4u

fishstix4u

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mandarin
scooter
sailfin
royal dottieback
zebra barbed goby
4 green chromis's
black clown
tons of rock and tons of pods.
 
sharkbait9

sharkbait9

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Originally Posted by NEreef
it equals peanut butter jelly time, duh.
is that peanut butter and jelly with a baseball bat?
My pod breeding ground is the blue/wite poly filter pad (cut rite pad) buried under a bunch of life rock rubble.
All the time the pile of rubble rock looks like a volcano erupting with pods.
 
a2hotz

a2hotz

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100lbs of LR considered enough for a mandarin goby? I dont think anything else I have will eat the pods...
2 Tomato Clowns
2 Blue Damsels
2 CB shrimp
1 Scopas Tang
(soon to have some kind of shrimp goby)
...clean up crew
 
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nereef

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Originally Posted by sharkbait9
is that peanut butter and jelly with a baseball bat?

it sure is. if you haven't seen the video, you should google peanut butter jelly time.
 
a2hotz

a2hotz

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Originally Posted by NEreef
it sure is. if you haven't seen the video, you should google peanut butter jelly time.
Its been in my favorites for a LONG time now!
 
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