Getting ready to set up 6 pod and brine cultures to keep this little dude well fed in my 31 gallon nano. In the meantime, he’s feasting on the pods on my rock as well as hikari frozen cyclopods. Wish me luck!
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@billy
1y
Very cool. Copepod and brine shrimp cultures? I’ve done a brine culture kit with dried eggs and its turned out ok not the greatest aha. How are you going about creating the cultures?
@KS00524398
1y
I’m going to have some Tupperwares with airline tubes from an air pump for aeration. 5 cultures will be pods while they be will be a brine hatchery with dried eggs. I’m so paranoid about this fish getting emaciated so I’m going to do everything I can to prevent that, though I will have to bring him back to the fish store if he starts losing a bunch of weight
@billy
1y
Nice. I’d love to see the culture set up once you have it running. I’ve heard they are finicky eaters so it sounds like you are doing everything right. I don’t have any experience with a mandarin myself.
@Zak50748
1y
My cultures for my pods are struggling not sure why. They just aren’t reproducing fast at all.
@KS00524398
1y
What is your setup like? I’m crossing my fingers I don’t have any issues, I just got mine setup today
@Zak50748
1y
They survive fine just don’t reproduce really. I’m using a 5 gallon tank with a tiny sponge filter that puts a few tiny bubbles per second through an airline.
@KS00524398
1y
Hmm, only thing I could think of is that they may be getting caught in the sponge. An airline should be plenty. Which pods are you culturing and what are you feeding them?
@Zak50748
1y
Tisbe mainly. Sometimes I’ll throw some tiggers in
@Kyle78680
1y
Just brought one home today!! It’s beautiful
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Beautiful mandarin 😍