green mandarin

also this website i guess is the best to order seahorses off of they actual have a perrmit to bread leafy sea dragons and i checked the customer reviews and for every like 40 good ones there was one bad one lol

 

I just added copepods to my tank for my oscillating dragonet and I guess they liked the conditions because I've had a bloom of them and they're everywhere. Just keep up with your parameters is ab out all I can say as I'm new to this and definitely surprised myself that they're doing amazingly....

 

where did you get your copepods offline in LFS if so whats the brand, and what are your parameters?(would liek to know for future reference)

 

I got mine in one of the near by LFS but you can definitely get them online. DT's live copepods and I feed them DT's live phytoplankton.

Most of mine seem to live on the glass or in a large LR rubble pile I have in the tank for them to be safe. When I put them into the tank I usually use a turkey baster and shoot them right into the pile.
There are definitely people in here with more experience than I have though so read a lot!

 

pack says to just toss a heater and a couple kitchen sponges in a bucket, add pods and they will grow like weeds. Dont even need a light. Shake the sponges out in the tank and then place back into the bucket for more to harvest on.

 

Well I had my tank running for about 13 months now. in about the seventh month I said the hell with it and bought a mandarin only $10. I put him in my QT for maybe 3days will the best peice of live rock in my tank. Now i heard of copepods but i have never seen any in my tank. I put the mandarin in and he ate everything I put in there from flakes to pellets. Loved aquadine. He lasted until about 3 weeks ago. I fell off on the upkeep of my tank for a lil while. Haven't seen him since. But all in all it depends on the fish. But wait till your tank matures. I was lucky i think.

 

well ty very much, i wil probably not make the same mistake you did though but what exactly is aquadine ill give it a try

 

Yeah I messed up Didn't take care of it for about a month. Wasn't feeding topping off got less frequent. Got an algea and aiptasia outbreak. I nuked 2 of my rocks to get rid of the bastards. But go here they can tell you more about Aquadine than I can. I just know fish love the stuff. Aquadine Duraflake Freshwater Fish Food

 

ty very much sorry to hear about that i know how algea outbreaks go lol