bpeitzke
Aquarium Advice Activist
We got two new fish for our 36-gal FOWLR tank a few weeks ago - a yellow tang and a lovely mandarin dragonet. (Sadly the puffer got the mandarin, so we've given up on bottom fish as long as we have him.) The tang is very active and seems healthy, and is eating the marine flake food as well as the seaweed I've been loading on a veggie clip every other day. My concern is how often I should replenish the seaweed. I want to find the right balance between his (her?) nutritional needs and bio-overload in the tank.
Please no flames re mandarin's sacrifice - the LFS guy advised us this one would be safe with puffer b/c it has a slime coating that discourages predators. Apparently puffer is exceptionally indiscriminate. We were very sad about mandarin, and I think our family has finally learned the lesson that we just can't introduce certain kinds of fish while we have puffer.
Please no flames re mandarin's sacrifice - the LFS guy advised us this one would be safe with puffer b/c it has a slime coating that discourages predators. Apparently puffer is exceptionally indiscriminate. We were very sad about mandarin, and I think our family has finally learned the lesson that we just can't introduce certain kinds of fish while we have puffer.