mandarin

Will a Mandarin eat Isopod's or just other pod's??

 

bump

 

thnx Dasco recently lost all my fish and have tons of pods I ruled out ick and its velvet or iso

 

what fish were in your tank? Is anything else dying? Or dead?

 

if it is small enough i would say probably. I do know that a psychedelic will sometimes eat a type of worm?... [I think it was flat worms but the name escapes me right now]. but the normal blue one wont eat it.

 

dunno but i'll bump your thread.

 

I have no fish I only had three and they started dying after getting a Bi-Color Angel...She either had Velvet or it was the iso...I am unsure but all the fish are dead and my tank is saturated with a type of pod....Theie not big enuff for a description...

 

Maybe this site will help you figure out what type of pods they are?
Hitch Hiking Copepods, Isopods and Amphipods

And here's one more resource:
http://www.nhm.org/guana/bvi-invt/bvi-surv/inverteb.htm

 

I would be shocked beyond belief to find that pods were at fault. There are normally HUGE quantities of pods in a salt water tank. I'd look elsewhere for a cause of the dead tank, and note that your desire to blame innocent pods which are a mere food source is bordering on the neurotic.

Why was the angel not QT'd for a month before it ever saw the light of day in your DT?

like the wise man said, you can lead a fish to water...

 

we have a HUGE number of Munnid isopods in our bio cube, we think the clowns are eating them. been in there for months, no deaths to anything in there.