matt_longview

Okay, I'm wanting to grow a fairly small amount of pods to supplement the frozen feedings for my Mandarin (it is perhaps best to think of the frozen food as the supplement). From what I've read they should do fine sitting in a window seal, loaded up with phyto each day with a small ball of chaeto in the water with them. It would experience pretty heavy temp changes in the window, but I would cap it to keep the evaporation down. Would do a small water change just like a typical change and feed ...

Here's the new fish... my Mandarin Goby. Before anyone gets upset that a mandarin is in a 29g let me say this. He is eating frozen. He actually seems to completely ignore my live pods, he's likely tank raised. He stayed at the store he was at for over a month. During that time he ate only frozen foods and he is still fat. Before I picked him up I worked out with a bud of mine who has a 220 that if he starts getting skinny he is getting a new mandarin! lol.
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I started this tank in January of this year. My live rock was purchased from a friend who lives 5 minutes up the road... the rock was only out of the tank long enough to be moved to a bucket at his house, and then into the tank at mine. I even started my tank with his water... so no acclimating or anything. Worked very well. The only "cycling" I went through would be the same as if you cleaned your tank really really well and stirred up all of your sand and such. There was a ...