pods

[Hocky puck]

ok im making the change form my aggro tank over to a more peaceful tank then evently when i get the money to a reef (lights etc we all know are expensive). my wife wants to get a mandrin which i think would be great but was always scared because they need the pods to feed on. i want to know if after i get my last aggro fish out my zebra eel (gonna miss him so much) and i get the pods set up so they replenish themselves then introduce the mandrin would i still have to suppliment more pods to the tank or would one mandrin not bother the population enough to kill them off?

 

[Mrc8858]

What size tank how many lbs of LR and do you have a fuge?

 

[Hocky puck]

the fuge isnt set up yet... thinking this out before i move on. i was gonna but rubble in it with a deep sand be and cheato tank is 90 gal

may be a stupid question why no jus put the pods in main tank (eye sore bad for fish?)

i know nothing bout these pods

 

[Mrc8858]

The fuge is a sanctuary for them where you can give ideal conditions for reproduction without threat of predation leading to a larger population. What's the size of the tank and how much rock?

Edit* didn't see 90.. LR?

 

[Hocky puck]

main tank has bout 50 lbs of live rock

 

[Mrc8858]

Oh ya you'll need about 50 more but you could just use base rock cause 50/50 should seed quickly

 

[Hocky puck]

90 gal sry edited the top prob after u read it

 

[Hocky puck]

is there any inverts that i have to worry bout eating them too peppermint shrimp fire shrimp etc i want to get more then acouple inverts for tank after its fully running

 

[Mrc8858]

Pretty much anything will eat a pod if it can catch it but for the most part you really won't want anything else in the fuge. Just go bare bottom with a bunch of LR and chaeto then seed with pods from reefs2go.com although it would eventually become established this will be much quicker