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GoPhish
12/17/2010, 02:46 PM
Is it possible to keep a mandarin Goby in an sps tank or is the water flow required for sps too high for the Goby.

I'm not really wanting to put him in the fuge

Does the overflow box in DT create a prob for him

Toddrtrex
12/17/2010, 02:55 PM
Assuming that your tank is big enough, and has a large/stable pod population you shouldn't have any issues.

Sk8r
12/17/2010, 05:00 PM
The main thing with keeping a mandy is to have no competitors for pods, and to have a big enough fuge (I recommend about 20 gallons of packed, mature fuge with live rock as well as sand and cheatomorpha) to keep him eating non-stop: they never slow down so long as they see a pod in front of them. The only caution would be the rare tank where the pods themselves can't get a grip in sufficient numbers, but honestly, I've never seen an sps tank that didn't have some quiet nooks where pods would hang out.