What eats copepods?

Yukon wrote:
When the main lights come on in my tanks, I see the same thing every morning - pods
scurrying and fish eating them. The fish know this is prime pod time. Have you tried
Mark's idea? I might give it a try. http://www.melevsreef.com/mandarin_diner.html

I've seen this and considered it, but I just don't know how my mandarin
would beat out my damsels and pseudochromis.

Instead, I've been dropping a teaspoon of fish eggs (used to adorn sushi
rolls) into the tank in front of a power head. The fish, predictably,
go bananas and I count this as 1 of my 3 feedings. However, half of the
fair drops to the bottom of the tank on the plenum around the rocks. My
mandarin dutifully comes around and cleans up everything. I don't think
even the hermits get anything out of it. 4 oz of eggs ran my $6, and
lasts (I think) about a month with daily feedings. Lights-out feeding
would probably yield more for the mandarin.

I, frankly, don't know how my mandarin survives, but it doesn't seem to
be starving. It must be finding enough while I blow a $100 at a time
trying to get pods to take to my fug.

To answer george's question, I think blennies will eat pods as well. I
put a culture of pods in my main tank and I've never seen one of them
again, so who knows.

It's a great exercise in humility owning a tank.

--Kurt

"KurtG" wrote in message ...
Instead, I've been dropping a teaspoon of fish eggs (used to adorn sushi
rolls) into the tank in front of a power head. The fish, predictably,
go bananas and I count this as 1 of my 3 feedings. However, half of the
fair drops to the bottom of the tank on the plenum around the rocks. My
mandarin dutifully comes around and cleans up everything. I don't think
even the hermits get anything out of it. 4 oz of eggs ran my $6, and
lasts (I think) about a month with daily feedings. Lights-out feeding
would probably yield more for the mandarin.

Could you tell me more about this fish eggs product?
How do you buy it and where? Is is canned/dried/frozen?

Pszemol wrote:
Could you tell me more about this fish eggs product?
How do you buy it and where? Is is canned/dried/frozen?

I'll get it for you (I'm at work), but it was at an oriental food store.
It was fresh and refrigerated (not frozen), and comes in a hard
plastic square container. The eggs are tiny, and I suspect would burst
if frozen.

Don't be disappointed if you need to go to a few stores to find them.
Japanese would be better, but I think I found mine at a Chinese market.
Don't bother calling unless you speak mandarin and a few other asian
languages.

My local Publix grocery store also has a sushi chef. I've been buying
nori off of him and I was going to tap him for eggs when I run out.
Nice guy.

--Kurt

KurtG wrote:
I'll get it for you (I'm at work)

Capelin Roe - w/ brand name "Sushikko"

KurtG wrote:

Instead, I've been dropping a teaspoon of fish eggs (used to adorn sushi
rolls) into the tank in front of a power head.

There's a Chinese grocery down the street. I'll check it out today.

To answer george's question, I think blennies will eat pods as well.

Ok. I don't have any of them. I'll keep it that way.

George Patterson
If you torture the data long enough, eventually it will confess
to anything.

Yukon wrote:

Have you tried
Mark's idea? I might give it a try. http://www.melevsreef.com/mandarin_diner.html

Right at the moment, the Mandarin is the largest fish in my tank, so the bottle
idea isn't going to work. If his Mandarins like those pellets, though, maybe
mine will too. Beats $35 a whack for Tiger Pods. Thanks much for the link.

George Patterson
If you torture the data long enough, eventually it will confess
to anything.

a Court Jester goby,

I`m a little late on this thread---sorry. The court jester goby is a
Rainford`s Goby, right? Does he constantly bite the substrate and sift
through his gills?

I`m pretty sure those guys are voracious pod eaters. I have a Hector`s Goby,
which is very closely related and shares the same behavior. When I
researched buying him I read somewhere that when disected, their stomach
contents revealed something like 70% copepods.

PS---

Ive had my Hectors Goby for over 5 months, and it`s never eaten any
"fishfood", frozen or otherwise. All Ive ever seen it do is pick off the
rock, filter sand and eat Hair algae when I had it (PAST TENSE BABY!).

Does the Rainford ever eat prepared foods?


"StringerBell" wrote in message
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a Court Jester goby,

I`m a little late on this thread---sorry. The court jester goby is a
Rainford`s Goby, right? Does he constantly bite the substrate and sift
through his gills?

I`m pretty sure those guys are voracious pod eaters. I have a Hector`s
Goby, which is very closely related and shares the same behavior. When I
researched buying him I read somewhere that when disected, their stomach
contents revealed something like 70% copepods.

StringerBell wrote:

Does the Rainford ever eat prepared foods?

I feed the other fish Mysis for the most part. I've never seen the Rainford's
eat any of it. I *have* seen him pick at the hair algae and sand.

George Patterson
If you torture the data long enough, eventually it will confess
to anything.

StringerBell wrote:

I`m a little late on this thread---sorry. The court jester goby is a
Rainford`s Goby, right? Does he constantly bite the substrate and sift
through his gills?

Yep, that's the guy.

I`m pretty sure those guys are voracious pod eaters.

Thanks. I can probably get store credit for him.

George Patterson
If you torture the data long enough, eventually it will confess
to anything.