I could watch him all day 💜
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@Soothing_Hold_52
118d
🌈
@OceanReef
117d
🥰
@LJreef
117d
He is so cool.
@OceanReef
117d
😁☺️
@LJreef
117d
I’ve been wanting one sooo bad 😂 but my tank isn’t big enough to have one, and when I see videos and pictures of these cool little dude, I show my wife like please I want one soo bad can I upgrade my tank just one time 😂
@OceanReef
117d
Me too , mainly why I started a saltwater tank just to get one 🤣 What size tank do you have ? A mandarin can live happily in a 30L , mine is a 50L and he seems very happy 😊
@LJreef
117d
I have a little 15 gallon with two clowns in it. If I knew that those cool little dudes existed before I got my 15 gallon, I would’ve went atleast a 30gallon. I started small because this is my first time with saltwater and I wanted to get good understabding of everything before going hands deep and then crash n burning 😂 I’ve read they are quite difficult to care for from research, is that true? I know the parameters and tank need to be established and Daily diet are copepods so that has to be constant in the tank for them.
@OceanReef
116d
I only have him 2 weeks but I am culturing my own copepods the past few months as I’m so worried he’ll starve 🙈 He won’t eat anything else for me but once you have enough pods in the tank for him there’s no reason for them not to thrive 🥰
@LJreef
116d
Gotcha, yeah that would be my worry to is sustaining the copepod colony for them, because we all know that the other fish love them copepods too 😂. Yeah I read up that’s really all they diet off of.. but all fish have their own personalities soo others could diet other things…How is the the culturing of copepods? I’ve watched videos on it and it doesn’t seem too hard, but doing and watching are two different things. 😆
@LeedsReefer
65d
How to keep are they, looking at getting one when I upgrade
@alimack04
117d
They are great aren't they. I picked up a tiny tank bred one a few months ago, she wasn't even an inch long.
@OceanReef
116d
He’s a little over an inch. I waited months for a larger one as I was worried my flame hawk would bother him but they are best buds 😁 The mandarin follows him all around the tank 🤣
@hendrietta
114d
stunning!
@OceanReef
107d
❤️❤️❤️
@amberbamber
107d
🥰🥰
@OceanReef
107d
❤️❤️❤️
@hendrietta
107d
do you have a lot of flow?
@OceanReef
107d
No it’s an LPS dominated tank so can’t have too much flow
@hendrietta
107d
don't you get a lot of algae then?
@OceanReef
107d
I am currently battling Dino’s the past few weeks after I was away and my nutrients bottomed out. My ballast went in my uv the same time too but iv reinstalled it on Wednesday and the Dino’s are almost gone now. Iv also started using Modern Reef bio bac , snow , diversity and activator together to clean the rocks and it’s working amazingly already and Iv only used it twice. Highly recommend
@hendrietta
107d
do you use a turkey baster?
@OceanReef
107d
I did when I had Cyano all over the rocks blew it all in the water column and into the uv it was gone in 2 days. Doesn’t do much for Dino’s though
@hendrietta
107d
we don't have a uv. just a protein skimmer. we're having a tough time getting the flow right, etc...thanks for your responses and your tank is just gorgeous!
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That color pop on the fish tho! So chill watching those vibes
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