Is my tank ready?

[Rscomia]

I started seeing copepods in my fuge about a month and half ago and as far as I know I have nothing in there that will eat them Do you think it would be safe to put in a mandarin goby?

 

[carey]

How much LR do you have and how long has your tank been running?

 

[Rscomia]

I have about 70 lbs in the tank and about another 10 lbs in the fuge I am aprroaching the 4 month mark on my tank

 

[carey]

I'm still waiting to get mine, lol, most people say it takes almost a year to build up a solid population.

You also could try an ORA one, they are supposed to eat prepared. But I wouldn't count on it.

 

[Rscomia]

Yeah I read alot about ora not being a sure thing on prepared foods and the last thing I want to do is get one and it starve on me

 

[carey]

They eat ALOT of pods. Like whole populations LOL

 

[Rscomia]

Yeah and even though I am seeing them I have no idea what a sufficent population is

 

[Hinds04]

Lets see a picture of your tank. 70lbs of brick is a lot different than 70lbs of the lightest most porous life rock with lots of caves (surface area). It takes A LOT of pods

 

[Rscomia]

I have alot of very porous rock some of it is solid

 

[Hinds04]

that looks like pretty good stuff. However, on a bad note that six line eats pods too. There may not ever be enough to share

 

[Rscomia]

I did not know that about the wrasse it has always ate flake food and I have heard that they it bristle worms to

 

[Hinds04]

Yea any wrasse will constantly cruise the rocks eating anything and everything moving.