so i have pretty much decided on getting a mandarin for my tank...
i have read that they require a stable environment, so essentially an tank that has been running well for a good few months - i will be patient.
regarding the mandarin though, i see that copepods are pretty much their staple diet and some people do feed them brine shrimp eggs (hatched)
The brine shrimp will be easy to get but then i started reading up on copepods and possibly cultivating them - bummer, not that easy to do.
So then i saw somebody mention chaeto in a refugium and i started thinking - seeing as i will be changing the order of the filtration on my tank this weekend, what about creating a refugium in one of the chambers?
am i being daft?
perhaps place some chaeto in the last chamber with the return pump? hopefully they could grow and flourish in there away from any livestock and the pump will suck them through and into the tank itself?
is this a workable scenario? where can i find some chaeto?
i have read that they require a stable environment, so essentially an tank that has been running well for a good few months - i will be patient.
regarding the mandarin though, i see that copepods are pretty much their staple diet and some people do feed them brine shrimp eggs (hatched)
The brine shrimp will be easy to get but then i started reading up on copepods and possibly cultivating them - bummer, not that easy to do.
So then i saw somebody mention chaeto in a refugium and i started thinking - seeing as i will be changing the order of the filtration on my tank this weekend, what about creating a refugium in one of the chambers?
am i being daft?
perhaps place some chaeto in the last chamber with the return pump? hopefully they could grow and flourish in there away from any livestock and the pump will suck them through and into the tank itself?
is this a workable scenario? where can i find some chaeto?