I am starting up a reef tank and would eventually like to get a mandarin (in 6 plus months after much research). I am putting in crushed coral substrate and adding live rock.
I know these fish feed off of copepods (sometimes brine shrimp). I am wondering how you clean the substrate. If you vacuum the substrate, aren’t you vacuuming up the copepods – thus the mandarins food source? How does that work?
I am curious and cant figure it out.
Thank you.
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Tagged Coral, dragonet, goby, Mandarin, mandarin goby, reef, reef tank, research, rock, saltwater, saltwater tank, substrate, tank
I have 8 fish. My red coral gouarmi eats EVERYTHING. He doesen’t leave anything for the rest of the tank. I feed them blood worms/ flakes and sometimes brine shrimp. What can I do? Thanks!
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Tagged anything, blood worms, Brine Shrimp, Coral, doese, everything, feeding, fish, gouarmi, question, rest, tank
I have a gorgeous tank of 8 Cichlids. 12 months old tank (still new in my case) and settled well. There like my babies! They started buying 2 at a time just. Two fishes have grown 5inch and the rest are at a standstill they have grown a lot however since I bought them as babies. I sit and watch them for hours. They’ve develop into intelligent beautiful stunning vibrant fish. I have mimmicked their habitat adding some crushed coral substrate. I feed 1 cubes of frozen Brine Shrimp and flake AM and PM. Ph is spot on. I use blackwater a drop each month and salt for their fins and antistress solution before handing if rocks need moving. No deaths for a year! PH is brill and no alge I have no pests I change water 10% once a week, and 25% once 6 weeks. I don’t touch my external filter not to disturb the bio. I have only ONE species of Cichlids they are ALL Malawi. I wondered how long do they live for, and how big do these fish get. I wish I knew their names 
any advice would be helpful x
i have a 180L tank with come coral 2 seahorses 2 cleaner shrimp a peppermint shrimp and a crdinal fish. i have fed them with frozen baby brine shrimp and have turned off the pump. i have also added some marine snow as i heard they eat allot. i cant find my breeding tank at the moment but i dont even konw how id catch them all anyway! i was mainly wondering how long do i or can i leave the pump off?
most of the fry will die anyway so im not looking to get rid of them im trying to keep asmany as possible.
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Tagged babies, baby, Baby Brine Shrimp, brine, cleaner shrimp, Coral, crdinal, fish, frozen baby, marine snow, peppermint, peppermint shrimp, pump, seahorse, seahorses, shrimp, tank