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Reef cleaners also says that their pods are a waste of money. MCF usually has pods. I'm going to try the AlgaGen stuff (Tisbe) eventually.

Nice tank George.
 
I'll be picking up some of Midwest Coral Farms pods if I stop over this weekend as well, the cultured stuff near the entrance just to hold the mandarins over until the big shipment arrives. I'm working on a makeshift critter keeper fuge for the tank until I can plumb in a real one. We are in the process of rearranging some furniture near the tank, so this may be a good opportunity to set up a nice display fuge next to the reef tank.
 
FishBeard said:
Long overdue update, just a quick one. Thanks to Aquapros, I brought home a m/f pair of spotted mandarins! Already have a BIG supply of pods on order headed my way for them to feast on. Its so cute how the female follows the male around all over the place. They were even sticking together at the store is why I had to take both.

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Beautiful pair.How they are doing now? BTW your new avatar makes me dizzy,like disco ball.:dance:
 
MMreefcrazy said:
Beautiful pair.How they are doing now? BTW your new avatar makes me dizzy,like disco ball.:dance:
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Not as well as I thought. Apparently even with all the rock I have, and scraping pods off the glass daily, they are still thinning out. I have them on a heavy regiment of ova and thera 0.5mm pellets until they are healthy enough to be moved to an appropriate home.
 
Are they taking OVA? Mines been picking at the rocks and doesn't seem to be skinny yet. I haven't seen mine pick at my spectrum pellets yet nor at mysis or daphnia.
 
Male passed the other day, was picking Thera pellets and ova, but not as much as the female was. After he passed, I just reintroduced the female to the tank and she seems to be doing well. Hopefully my tank can sustain one mandarin since she does eat ova and pellets.

I also put in a 2nd order at reefs2go for their pods with free shipping deal yesterday, and got more inverts to stock my frogfish tank since I was already getting free shipping.
 
Video update of new nem, apparently the rose bta isn't good enough anymore! LOL
Got 2 of them, but the larger one already walked on the first night, waiting til i can get to it to relocate.

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And a quick pic with all lights on:

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Very Nice George! That BTA is great, where'd you pick that up?

And darn :( Was the male's death due to starvation? My male isn't picking at any prepared foods yet:( I've been transfering pods from my fuge to my DT but I think it's SLOWLY becoming thinner. It looks as if he's finding some food as it's not flesh and bones, but you can see it's a bit thinner. I still gotta try and get OVA from somewhere. Dunno which LFS has it around us.


-Eric
 
Some more pics, still clearing out the SPS to make room for these new guys:
(Please note, this is under full spectrum LED, will update once i go back to T5)

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Full spectrum, with flash:
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Full spectrum, with flash:
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Full spectrum, with flash:
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EyeReef said:
Fts George :)
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My tank is a complete mess, still selling off corals, need to re-scape the tank, and get T5's back over the tank so the nem's aren't getting blasted by the ultra intense LED lighting. Soon thou, I will have pics of a beautiful 'nem garden.
 
UPDATE: No new updates, keep an eye out for my new build thread, likely to be titled:

FishBeard's 180g Wall'o'Tank!

Coming soon to a forum near you.
 
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