No not really. I do have a fgood stand of calurpea and as much good
live rock as I could possibly put in that tank and very little room
for swimming, but then most mandarins rock hop and scoot around than
swim anyhow, so its not like the mandarin is hurting for swimmning
space it never uses anyhow. I find mandarins some of the neasted
colored fish out there and they are dirt cheap in this reigon $10 to
15 bucks at most. Too bad they have such a strict type of diet. I also
have a AC 500 / 110 hob filter on the back which funtions to provide
current flow as well as provide a sort of fuge for "extra" pods as
well. I have live rock rubble and chaeto in the fuge.

On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 19:08:21 GMT, George Patterson
wrote:

Tristan wrote:
Your gonna be surprised at how many pods a mandarinis capable of
eating in short order.

I have a mandarin in a 10 gal tank by itself. Yep thats not a typo
either and its been in there for over a year now and doing fine. Its
never been fed anything that I put into the tank like brine etc on a
routine basis.

That's great news for me, if I understand you correctly. Your 10 gallon tank
maintains an adequate supply of copepods for one mandarin? Then my 125 gallon
with ~130 pounds of live rock should be capable of supporting two. Is there
anything special you're doing, other than having a bunch of live rock in there?

George Patterson
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