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04/11/2014, 12:34 PM | #1 |
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Pod/shrimp breeding
I'm in the process of setting up my 125 gallon tank and know that later on down the road I will be getting a mandarin goby. This is of corse after my tank is well off I'm guessing 5-6months after cycle. I will be wanting to add on a pod/shrimp breeding system for fish and goby. I figure sooner after the cycle the better to get population levels sky high! I've been doing lots of reading and I don't want to put alot of money into it. I'm thinking a 2 1/2 gallon goldfish tank at Petsmart will do, one fore each. But what exactly does a breeding tank need for them to thrive? Water changes? Light? Filtration? I have an idea just not sure.
I guess if you have a working thriving breeding system please share what equipment you use and how it's operated?!?!? Thanks
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04/11/2014, 07:58 PM | #2 |
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No one breeds pods or shrimp? Hard to imagin....
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04/11/2014, 08:00 PM | #3 |
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Depends what kind of shrimp you want I think.
I'm not a pro on this but if you want a ton of pods I think chaeto or another macro algae of some sort is the way to go, I read they love to breed in that stuff. |
04/11/2014, 09:53 PM | #4 |
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04/11/2014, 10:30 PM | #5 |
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Are you going to have a fuge and live rock? If so a 125 will produce enough pods without having to supplement as long as you don't have a bunch of other pod eating fish to outcompete it.
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04/12/2014, 01:42 AM | #6 |
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I have a 125 with a 40 gallon sump/refugium. The only thing I do is I started growing Culerpa in my fuge and I got lucky and got some live rock from a very mature tank 5+ years which was packed with pods and just let them grow. My tank has been set up since last February and just now in April added my first mandarin and he's doing great. I really think the key to sustaining mandarins is making sure you have a very abundant pod population. I've also heard of ppl taking loofas like what you shower with and putting them in your fuge and apparently they love to hang out in them then just transfer it to your display when you need to reapply the dt. However I've never done this my fuge and dt are packed.
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