KurtG wrote on Tue, 05 Dec 2006:
I was hoping that with live brine or worms maybe it would slow down it's pod
eating. Not that I mind that it's eating pods, but just the "dust" coming
out of it's gills.

Oh, I see. Yeah, I don't think that theory will work.

Pretty much all fish prefer to be constant grazers. In the wild they eat
large volumes of low-nutrition food. We're lucky that most ornamental fish,
in captivity, can survive on rare (e.g. daily) feedings of high-nutrition
food. Mostly it's because they don't have any choice.

But a mandarin is built to spend the whole day constantly scouring the rockwork
and eating pods. I don't think anything will stop this behavior, even if you
do manage to find some food to add that it will eat. They just constantly
forage.

(All that said, I'm still suspicious that a single mandarin causes visible
daily changes in water quality in a 110 gallon tank. I suspect that you've
misidentified the cause of your water clarity problem.)

-- Don
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