Yeah, I personally don't think it will work, I kept a scooter in a 29 for around a year and a half... though I got it to readily accept mysis (coolest thing ever, it pounces on it like a cat) and i supplemented pods. I also kept alot of rock piles connected by pvc under the sandbed as a place where the pods could reproduce. A bit of an underground fuge in a sense. Also for a period of time I had a lot of plants growing in my tank and I put them in a soap dish stuck on the inside of my tank near my pump. This was another fuge. So a dish soap fuge, underground network fuge, and mysis a plenty, I kept mine very very happy for the time I had him. Unfortunately she did die, though not from starvation. My tank slowly declined and I lost several things in about 3 days. Since then I haven't really had much enthusiasm for it : ( Though I'm moving to Orlando in a few days and will be starting a new nano there. REJOICE!
anyway, don't do it. I'm dumb.