Culturing Pods

[Funky_Fish14]

Originally Posted by Snappy

After doing a little research since the 'mandarin in a nano' thread, I found out that most mandarins generally eat the pod eggs and larvae, not the adult pods. In my tank I can see them eating but can't actually see their food, now I know why. They only eat adult pods when trained to do so, it is not their natural diet.

I've observed this myself in my tank. I have a 23g fuge, packed full of pods, which flow gently down into the main tank, and I never see the mandarin eat adult animals, it always seems to be larvae, which I see crawling around the tank alot, but they are extremely small, and too hard to find just before the mandarin catches one.

Chris