New red mandarin isnt hunting for pods. How do we get her to start hunting?

[OrionN]

If your Mandarin won’t move to eat pods I don’t think provide her with brine shrimp will help. Certainly it won’t hurt. Good luck.

I think she is sick rather than starving. Good luck with her.

 

[Thespammailaccount]

Any advantages to doing the hatchery over a sea monkey kit?

I picked up a vial of brine shrimp eggs today. Going to toss some in the fuge tonight, and I'll do a diy hatchery tomorrow.

The kit is so easy just lift the strainer and harvest. The egg cases and the unhatched brine are left behind so the waste does not end up in your tank.

I harvest the brine from the kit and transfer them over to a disposable bowl. Once in the bowl I feed them phytoplankton. As long as the water level in the bowl is about a half an inch you won’t need an air pump and keeping them in a small volume of water makes it easy to suck them up with a syringe and feed. When you start to notice bubbles around the perimeter of the bowl the ammonia is rising. Perform a water change with about a 1/4 a cup of water using the strainer. You can also use a coffee filter but this is messy too the strainer Is very easy and you can buy one for 25 bucks. This phyto is by far the best I have bought it is thick like a soup. I included a picture of Lizzy my dragon pipe next to a standard frag plug for comparison

 

[Thespammailaccount]

The things in my tank deemed expert only due to their feeding requirements/hard to keep

 

[Thespammailaccount]

The things in my tank deemed expert only due to their feeding requirements/hard to keep

 

[BeMoto]

@Thespammailaccount

How much time per day does this take you, once you have a system down. I've been thinking about trying this. Been wanting to try fish breeding also, so a hatchery would be a must.

 

[Thespammailaccount]

Lizzy the dragon pipe and Yoshi the yasha hasha goby dining on baby brine

 

[Thespammailaccount]

@Thespammailaccount

How much time per day does this take you, once you have a system down. I've been thinking about trying this. Been wanting to try fish breeding also, so a hatchery would be a must.

I spend about 45 min a day on the tank but that includes maintenance and testing. Mine is small scale but for breeding they generally use 5 gallon buckets or larger. Lots of good info on the web. Brine is not that difficult. Rodifers for example require daily water changes through a series of various micron sieves

 

[Katrina71]

How is your new baby Mandarin? Eating?

 

[dtruitt]

How is your new baby Mandarin? Eating?

Sulking in the fuge. The chocolate chip stars we feed to the harlequin were sizing her up. Harlequin got a new starfish to dismember earlier than she was supposed to.

I've seen her stirring a little more. Possible signs of lympho upon closer inspection. Saw her peck once or twice yesterday, but that might just be wishful thinking.

 

[Katrina71]

I'm hopeful for her