six line wrasse and mandarin in 40 breeder?

[ecvernon]

Before i purchased my sixline wrasse i had so many pods that they will be like 100 of them out when the lights are on!!!! now its been 3 days and my wrasse belly looks like its about to explode!!! i wanted to add a green mandarin to my tank and was wondering would there be too much competition for food? I have a refugium in my sump and have plenty of them there but i dont see them around the tank like i used to...so what do yall think?

thanks
Eric

 

[finksmart]

The six line will be quicker to the food than the mandarin, unless it's trained to take prep food but that's a whole other thread.

 

[ocholoco]

hey

The six line will pick on the mandarin way too much until he kills him. Believe me I lost one mandarin, or the Mandarin will starve to death.

 

[nanoreefer22]

E,

The sixlines gonna out compete the mandarin for the food. My tank barely has pods cause of the wrasses I used to have, now i have another pair and still low on pods.

 

[ZANYMASTER]

Mandarins will do better in bigger tanks where there is plenty of rock and pods for it to eat.

 

[marki24]

mandarins will do the best in the wild

 

[lazibonez]

mandarins will do the best in the wild

:funnypost:teeth:

 

[ecvernon]

i have had a mandarin before and he was very heathy, big and fat but guess it does not do well when there is competition

 

[ecvernon]

i agree everything in all our tanks will do better in the wild huh:lol:

 

[ZANYMASTER]

So are we all agreeing to give up the hobby once and for all?It's an addiction and you know it,besides,we're doing our part to save the reefs right?Might not be one in the near future but that's a different discussion.

 

[rookie07]

no mandarin in a 40 gl tank

 

[marki24]

So are we all agreeing to give up the hobby once and for all?It's an addiction and you know it,besides,we're doing our part to save the reefs right?Might not be one in the near future but that's a different discussion.

nobody is saying to give up the hobby, just saying that some things just do a lot better in the wild and that one thing is a mandarin :givebeer:

 

[basiab]

A mandarin needs a larger and very mature tank. In a 40 even without the six line he would not make it unless you kept buying pods.

 

[h20 freak]

he would not make it unless you kept buying pods.

I wonder if anyone actually buys pods continually like that...

 

[Moonstream]

I have heard of people buying pods continuously. it was someone on RC with a target mandy in a biocube 29g.