Icedphoenix
Community Member
So I purchased a new mandarin from my LFS. I had a couple of questions/ideas and was wondering if anyone might have done this or an improvement on some stuff.
First I want to set him up with a little feeding station. He had been in the store for at least a couple of weeks, and he does eat frozen cyclops which I have witnessed myself in my tank at the house. I am thinking a glass spice bottle with the center cut out of the lid. Cut an old fish net to go between the lid and the jar. I would put a few chunks of rock rubble in the bottle and then put tigger pods and baby brine in the bottle. Would the fish net slow them down enough, so he has time to snack on them through the day? I can fill the bottle as needed so to speak to supplement tisbe pods in the main tank.
I plan on setting up a phyto/pod culture station. I want to culture both the tisbe and the tigger pods for this endeavor. I would use the tigger in one bottle to take from and place in the spice bottle and every 3 weeks or so when I harvest the tisbe split it between the new culture and the tank itself. Can I use the off the shelf pods to start my culture? Are they a good mix to use that way?
Culture question really is how should I harvest out the pods? I would want to catch all 3 life cycle sizes and obviously keep most of the young for the new culture. Do I just run the pods through progressively smaller sieves? When doing the tigger pods do you do water changes by running them through the sieve and putting them in new water? The tiggers are basicly for his jar as they would be gone the moment they hit the water column any way.
Thanks for any recommendations on this thought process. Good news is he is not what I would call fat, thats my clown fish but he seems healthy and does not have what people online show as sunken stomach. Hopefully with the pods the tank was previously seeded with and him eating the frozen that will keep him healthy while the pod production ramps up.
First I want to set him up with a little feeding station. He had been in the store for at least a couple of weeks, and he does eat frozen cyclops which I have witnessed myself in my tank at the house. I am thinking a glass spice bottle with the center cut out of the lid. Cut an old fish net to go between the lid and the jar. I would put a few chunks of rock rubble in the bottle and then put tigger pods and baby brine in the bottle. Would the fish net slow them down enough, so he has time to snack on them through the day? I can fill the bottle as needed so to speak to supplement tisbe pods in the main tank.
I plan on setting up a phyto/pod culture station. I want to culture both the tisbe and the tigger pods for this endeavor. I would use the tigger in one bottle to take from and place in the spice bottle and every 3 weeks or so when I harvest the tisbe split it between the new culture and the tank itself. Can I use the off the shelf pods to start my culture? Are they a good mix to use that way?
Culture question really is how should I harvest out the pods? I would want to catch all 3 life cycle sizes and obviously keep most of the young for the new culture. Do I just run the pods through progressively smaller sieves? When doing the tigger pods do you do water changes by running them through the sieve and putting them in new water? The tiggers are basicly for his jar as they would be gone the moment they hit the water column any way.
Thanks for any recommendations on this thought process. Good news is he is not what I would call fat, thats my clown fish but he seems healthy and does not have what people online show as sunken stomach. Hopefully with the pods the tank was previously seeded with and him eating the frozen that will keep him healthy while the pod production ramps up.
