is a scooter blenny and a Spotted Mandarin good????

nissan577

nissan577

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i have a 95g with a scooter blenny but my tank is filled with flat worms. they told me that the Spotted Mandarin is a great fish for them and i did research and many of them said it works amazing.
now im wondering would these 2 be ok with eachother????
 
meowzer

meowzer

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They will get along fine...as long as you have enough food to sustain the 2 of them....both eat lots of pods...and stuff
 
superhero

superhero

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yes as Meowzer said they are compatible, however you better have a fuge, a large amount of LR, or be able to supplement pods for them because those and other microorganisms is all they will eat.
P.S. Meowzer... Love the new bunny ears! lol
 
hunt

hunt

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unless, you could always try to wean them on to mysis, but even then its a good thing to have plenty of pods in the tank
 
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saxman

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FWIW, IME, mandies will eat the occasional FW, but they don't really LIKE them all that much. it seems they don't taste very good, as the mandy would kinda go "p-tooey, P-tooey, P-TOOEY!" whenever it sucked one in.
 
mrdc

mrdc

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I have a buddy that has had both in a 55 for awhile but he gives them plenty of pods. He has had them for about a year and still when he feeds his other fish with pellets and flakes, those two fish ignore it.
 
meowzer

meowzer

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I have LOTS of pods in my 225G...and I have a mandarin,....BUT it also eats frozen :)
I just saw it eating it one day :)
 
gill again68

gill again68

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Did he eat frozen from the start or did you train him to? My mandarin seems to be happy eating around all the rock. I have a ton of rock in my tank but I worry about the population of PODS. I have dumped about 3 bottles in the tank.
OOOOOPS sorry for the hijack. Kinda on topic.
 
luvmyreef

luvmyreef

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Hey, just so everyone knows....you can use a med called prazipro to dip your corals in to kill any flatworms or their eggs that might arrive on your frags. I know this guy who uses it, and he has mostly sps, beautiful tank, no flatworms!
 
mrdc

mrdc

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I know I have been out of the hobby for awhile but don't mandarins for the most part just eat pods BUT some of the few can get them to eat other foods?
 
meowzer

meowzer

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Originally Posted by Gill again68
http:///forum/post/3237983
Did he eat frozen from the start or did you train him to? My mandarin seems to be happy eating around all the rock. I have a ton of rock in my tank but I worry about the population of PODS. I have dumped about 3 bottles in the tank.
OOOOOPS sorry for the hijack. Kinda on topic.


I didn't do anything
I was really surprised when I saw it....But I watched every day until I was 100% that is what I was seeing

Originally Posted by mrdc
http:///forum/post/3237990
I know I have been out of the hobby for awhile but don't mandarins for the most part just eat pods BUT some of the few can get them to eat other foods?
Most will only eat pods from what I have read....some can be trained...fr om what I have read.....Mine just decided it wanted a bigger variety of foods I guess...LOL
 
nissan577

nissan577

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i have a fuge and lots of rock work. so pods and mysis are no problem to me. i just wanna kill the FW!!!!
 
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