RyanM
05/18/2007, 02:30 PM
I had my manderin vanish about a 2 months a go. I use to always see him swimming around on my rocks then one day I noticed he wasnt around. He's dead I thought. At the exact same time I had an unexplained pile of what I could only guess at the time was his remains after being chewed by crabs and my starfish. I sucked it up and thought that was the end of it.
Today Jerry aka Dr Bronx stopped by an was looking at my tank. He was asking about my overflow and when he left I went back in and was looking at it again. Dont have to say what I found swimming in there. :) My manderin. In my overflow for at least 2 months. Took about 15 minutes to fish him out of there and return him to the main tank. He seems to be ok and I can only guess that he has been living on the food that ends up in my over flow. from my feedings. Cant be a huge pod population in there im sure. He is alive so I guess he must be converted to flake and mysis. Thats about all I feed my tank. The strange part is that I use my overflow as a chemical dump. I add most if not all my chemicals in my overflow. Is the longest path to mix before returning. I find my self thinking about all the times I dumped my alk booster in there.
Cant believe it and would have lost a huge bet.
Manderins, are one tuff little fish. :)
Today Jerry aka Dr Bronx stopped by an was looking at my tank. He was asking about my overflow and when he left I went back in and was looking at it again. Dont have to say what I found swimming in there. :) My manderin. In my overflow for at least 2 months. Took about 15 minutes to fish him out of there and return him to the main tank. He seems to be ok and I can only guess that he has been living on the food that ends up in my over flow. from my feedings. Cant be a huge pod population in there im sure. He is alive so I guess he must be converted to flake and mysis. Thats about all I feed my tank. The strange part is that I use my overflow as a chemical dump. I add most if not all my chemicals in my overflow. Is the longest path to mix before returning. I find my self thinking about all the times I dumped my alk booster in there.
Cant believe it and would have lost a huge bet.
Manderins, are one tuff little fish. :)