Pods for Madarins

[zoe4eva]

can you tell me what mandarins actually eat? is it just copepods? or do they eat other things like rotifers and things? i know they even eat pellets and flake, even frozen food sometimes but if they dont, what do they normally eat? i know they prefer copepods!
Thanks

[FUGU]

Hi Zoe - I've no personal experience with Mandarins and my guess will be livefood around copepod size (1-2mm) and probably a little bigger. Juvenile stages of amphipods, shrimp, marine cladocerans, and brineshrimp will probably be taken as well. For your convenience if you have stock capable of taking formulated dry or frozen feed you should take advantage of it. In the meantime concentrate on keeping the pods going as these can be fairly reliable to culture, and recognised as being more nutritionally complete as a fresh livefood. Hope that helps. Cheers

[zoe4eva]

thankyou, do you not do pods at the moment?

[FUGU]

Hi Zoe

The shop info has been updated and the pods are instock and ready to go.

The current deals are 500ml pods/roti mix + 500ml phyto at 23.50, 1 litre pods/roti + 500ml phyto at 29.90 inclusive of Special Delivery; if you're needing Saturday delivery there's an additional 2.00 charge for guaranteed Saturday delivery. See the following shop link for the pods etc.

http://cnb-host1.clickandbuild.com/cnb/shop/zm-ltd?op=catalogue-products-null&prodCategoryID=24

Let me know if you have any other questions.

Cheers

[zoe4eva]

so is that a mixed bottle of the 2? or do you send a small vial/whatever they come in,:laugh: of both? i would ideally need rotifers and copepods seperately.
Thanks

[FUGU]

Hi Zoe - they are cultured together as they have proved more stable like that, if the rotifers get too dense I'll strain them out. I do have a culture of only rotifers growing and they should be available later this month. Cheers