#ed_op#DIV#ed_cl#I've had this 20g up and running for about 6 months and I have had an ocellaris clown for about 5 months untill he jumped out of the tank last night... I went to the LFS today to see about replacing it and I was thinking about getting a mandarin goby. I have a 2" sand bed with 30lbs of live rock and pods are everywhere they dont even wait for the light to go out. I dont have anything else in the tank right now so there wont be any problems there. Any thoughts good or bad??#ed_op#/DIV#ed_cl#
mandarins are tricky, they only eat pods, they are not recommended in a tank less than a year old, but that is not to say that people have not kept them in fairly young tanks. If you think you have the pod population I would say go for it. but I would make sure that you have adequate food for him, if not you are condeming him to die of starvation.
Well I have pods all over the place so I dont think that will be a problem, they stay all over the back glass 24/7 and I see them on the rocks all day and If I let a little algae accumulate on the front glass they are all over it too. I have had a 30G tank in the past and it never had the pod population this 20G already has.
Try to find a mandarin (by the way, they are NOT gobies, but dragonettes..like scooters) that eats frozen foods. There are plenty out there.
My mandarin eats frozen gamma mysid, PE mysid, and SanFransico Bay brand frozen brine. I once had him in my 75G reef, but he was starving. Not because of lack of pods etc. but because when I fed, the chromis, clowns, banggai, tang etc. would eat all of the food so fast that the mandarin didn't get any share.
Now he is in my 26 bow with my seahorses (they act and eat very much alike) and is as fat and happy as can be.
Mandarin Goby in a 20G ?
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