Green Mandarin ???'s

[mesaltonly]

I plan on putting a green mandarin in my 75 gal. tank when it has matured enough. It will have about 90 lbs. LR and a 20 gal. sump for the copepods to grow in. My question is about what other fish may interfere with the mandarin's diet of copepods. I am wanting to put a yellow headed jawfish in there and maybe some type of sand sifter like a golden headed sleeper goby. Will the sleeper goby eat too many of the copepods as it sifts through the sand or will there still be enough for the mandarin? Also, are there any specific inverts that I need to avoid when keeping the green mandarin? Thanks.

 

[blazehok68]

I Know A Scooter Blenny Will Eat Pods Too.

 

[mr_bill]

My hawkfish has murdered the larger pod population in my tank. It might be time for him to go.

 

[wax32]

Most fish will eat pods, given the opportunity. Mainly avoid other fish that use pods as their main food source, like other mandarins/dragonettes.
I have a spotted mandarin and a purple dottyback and a canary wrasse in my 70 gallon. They all are known pod eaters but I haven't had any problems with these three. I did also have a green mandarin and it starved to death...

 

[alyssia]

Six line wrasse will also quickly diminish your pod population.

 

[mesaltonly]

Thanks for all the suggestions. I am going to keep the fish load pretty low and hopefully with the refugium the pods will be able to keep a high enough population to feed the mandarin.

 

[richie1742]

i read that they can eat cyclopeeze, but im not shur if they can live on just that and live brine.