View Full Version : Auto feeding of a mandrian
Mark Bianco
03/29/2013, 05:40 PM
I am looking for opinions. What I would like to do is setup a 10 gl tank to keep and grow pods. Then I would use my Litermeter pump to daily dose from this tank to my dispaly tank that I will be adding a mandrain golby. The literMeter can be set to dose as low as 1.7 oz per day.
Now that I am thinking about it perhaps I can also add some coral food to the 10 gl tank as well.
Anybody have an opinion if something like this will work???
Thanks in advance
Mark
What you need is just a 20 gallon fuge plumbed in, with barriers, either into your sump or as a separate tank. Copepods have no trouble getting through the pump alive. They're that small. I've even had amphipods make it through my Iwaki 100, which is worse than a Cuisinart. Main thing you need is just to keep that mandy away from the breeding area. THey have no self-restraint.
Here's some math on the breed. http://reefcentral.com/forums/blog.php?b=501
Mark Bianco
03/29/2013, 06:51 PM
Thanks Sk8R Thats one hungry little fish. I have a 220gl tank with 150 lbs live rock and a 100 gl sump with another 100 lbs of live rock. Guess I need to get some cheato as well.
Are the live pods you buy at places like Live aquaria the same thing?
I'd say your tank is large enough to support the mandarin without any changes.
It looks like you are underestimating the current size of your pod population.
Liquid360
03/30/2013, 04:19 PM
You should be able to check your population by shining a red light in your overflow. The adults are about quarter the size of a grain of rice and you'll see them under red light. I've got a mandarin and a scooter dragonet and I drove myself nuts for months afraid of having them starve to death for lack of an invisible food source I couldn't monitor. I bought a bottle of tigger pods every couple weeks from lfs to dump into the sump/refugium. It was overkill but kept my mind at ease by being proactive and it resulted in a very healthy population that still add to once a month or so.
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