wrote on 18 Feb 2005 07:2:
I own a 4 year old reef tank with over 300lbs of LR. I have had a very
difficult time in keeping a mandarin goby for an extended period. IMHO
I think anything less than 75-100lbs of live rock may be too little to
insure adequate food. Of course I have not had success, and perhaps
there are others who have had long term success with small tanks.

But you haven't even had success with 300lbs of LR, so on what basis do you
conclude that 75lbs isn't enough?

I've got a 55gal tank with about 60lbs of live rock. I did lose a mandarin
that I added far too early, but after a year or so my tank was mature enough.
I've had my current mandarin for about a year and a half. It doesn't eat
anything that I feed into the tank, but it seems fat and happy just snacking
on the live pods it can find in the rocks.

-- Don
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