Thinking about getting a Mandarin

[BWine]

I'm thinking about getting a green mandarin as my last fish. I have a 18 month old 210 gal with a 75 gal sump/refugium. I have about 225 lbs of liverock. I usually see a lot of pods in my refugium but I rarely see them in my display tank. I'm assuming that I have them in there. My current stock list is:

1 yellow tang
1 kole tang
1 Desjardini Sailfin Tang
1 Lieutenant Tang
1 Wantanabe Angel
3 Barlett anthias
5 Chromis
2 Clownfish
1 Leopard wrasse
1 Lubbocki wrasse
3 Pajama cardinals

Parameters:

SG 1.027
420 Ca
9.5 dKh
0 Nitrate
0 Phosphates
78 Temp

Do you think that I will be able to keep one alive with my 2 established wrasses? Am I overstocked already?

[cl2ysta1]

i think you'll be fine. Another trick you can do is switch out a ball of cheato every week with new in the main display. put it in some netting so that the fish cant get into it. the pods will go out in your tank.

[hanas]

I think you'll definitely be fine. I have a couple wrasses in my 90 with only about 60lbs of LR and my mandarin is really fat. The key is having a fuge, since there are loads of pods in there.

[snorvich]

Only one competitor for copepods and you should be fine with live rock and a refugium

[tom3201]

What are your opinions on keeping mandarins together?How's it going Steve always nice to see a fellow Illlinoisan on here,I am from Pekin
Tom

[krazeekiddie]

I have heard unless you have an extremely large tank with a great pod population, keeping mandarins together is a no-no. They would each need their own territory in order not to fight. Never attempted it myself, so maybe someone who has could chime in! =)

[cl2ysta1]

i have a pair of them in my 220 cube.

[xanthurum]

you should be fine and if you want to keep a pair of mandarins I think your tank is big enough.

[BWine]

Cool...thanks for the responses. I'm going to get one in the next week or so.

[shred5]

A male and female mandrins are good together... Mixing males is ussually bad.

Dave.

[CT Clownfish]

I have a male and female in a 240. They been in there for 2 years now. Always together.

Bob.

[snorvich]

If you are going to have a male and female, be sure the tank size is large enough and ideally they should be introduced at the same time. Sometimes you can get this to work if you introduce the female first.

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