Mandarin

[Reef-Geek]

Originally Posted by daniella3d

Well it depends if you have pods in your liverock or not. Generally 70lbs of a well seeded liverok is good for one mandarin.

how do you check that?

[DCDN]

Its also important to have an well estalished system

[dc4]

I have about 100lbs of live rock and lots of macro algae (chaeto, etc.) and I have pods all over the rock of all sizes, my pair of mandarins are fat, happy, and preggers. I put chaeto in my overflow, sump, and behind my rockwork and it seemed to help a lot with pods as it gives them somewhere to hide and reproduce.

You can also seed your rock if you think that there is not enough pods, I seeded my rock with a few packs of copepods that I bought from the states and now they are all over the place.