Copepods: All-U-Can-Eat

[Iceburg98]

Well, I'd say my tank is finally "established". It's almost 6 months old and SWARMING with copepods. What would be a good fish to put in it that will eat up some of those, but will also accept frozen foods?

My tank is only 6gal, but there are currently no other fish in it. I was originally thinking mandarin, but i know those will get too big and eat up all those pods too quick. what will stay fairly small?

thanks

 

[dragon79]

mandarins in general are constant hunters, they'd wipe out your pods to extermination, which then, Mr. Mandy would go on the starvation diet and well, you know.

As for a fish that would eat them, I know my black Ocellaris Variants eats them til there were no more (at least visible). a sixline wrasse would eat them too, but I believe you'd need a bigger tank as they are active swimmers of going in and out of things, in a confined space it may stress and die.

I believe my brother told me that those citron yellow goby would eat them too, and then take to regular food such as mysis. Good luck