mandarin fish in biocube???

AL, is that a female Red mandarin?

I have a male red coming on Tuesday, along with my Scott's fairy wrasse.

 

Yep thats a female! I want a male so i can breed and raise the young on prepared foods and sell em

 

Sounds like quite a but if work just feeding her lol

 

Like havin a kid.lol

 

Shut upp well it almost looks worth it those r very beautiful fish

 

If you don't do a species only tank for the harlequins, they will starve pretty fast. I bought one to take care of my over population in my 72 gallon. I placed it in a 5 gallon tank with a lot of purple rock covered in stars. Cleaned the tank out in a couple weeks. Then I had to rotate rock from my 72 to the 5 to keep him fed.

So if you don't have an excessive population of asterinas in another tank....or willing to sacrifice a chocolate chip or linkia star every month, then its probably a good idea to avoid them. I have a buddy that keeps a pair in a 5 gallon tank that hand feeds them asterinas daily using metal tongs.

 

Yeah thanks for the advice I have a petco like 5mins away and they always have lots of cc starfish soo I think I would be ok but quick question if I were to feed them cc starfish should I cut of a leg and feed them slowly or just throw in the whole starfish

 

Just put in the whole starfish. The shrimp will only eat what they need to. It's kind of like a moving buffet table.;D

 

Wow the animal kingdom isn't pretty lol so if I put the whole starfish in there and they only Eat like one leg at a time do u think it would survive and grow it back if I took it out and let it heal in another tank

 

That might possibly work. It depends on how fast the stars can regenerate legs.