We have two dragonets in our 90 gallon tank, a Ruby Red and a Red Scooter. When we bought them the LFS said they were eating frozen brine shrimp, which they sort of are but I don't think they're eating enough of it. Once again my bad for not doing the research before picking up a new fish. I thought they would be easier to take care of than mandarins, which we'd also like to get someday, but from the reading I've done the last few days it sounds like these guys also need a stable supply of copepods to thrive. So now I'm trying to decide what the best path forward is.
I kind of like the idea of having a refugium and growing copepods but I'm concerned that we don't have room for one. These have come up several times in some of the threads I've been reading - https://www.bulkreefsupply.com/larg...-refugium-with-led-lighting-cpr-aquatics.html - but it seems like that wouldn't be big enough. Even the large size is only 5 gallons. From other articles I've read it sounds like bigger is better and the general rule is at least 10% the size of your tank. We have a 20 gallon sump but there isn't a lot of space in it.
Other options seem to be just ordering copepods 1-2 times a month and just dumping them in the display tank. Or getting the above refugium and regularly ordering copepods to replenish it since I don't think we could grow enough copepods to keep two scooters and a future mandarin happy.
Anyone here have any scooters or mandarins? If so, what do you feed them?
I kind of like the idea of having a refugium and growing copepods but I'm concerned that we don't have room for one. These have come up several times in some of the threads I've been reading - https://www.bulkreefsupply.com/larg...-refugium-with-led-lighting-cpr-aquatics.html - but it seems like that wouldn't be big enough. Even the large size is only 5 gallons. From other articles I've read it sounds like bigger is better and the general rule is at least 10% the size of your tank. We have a 20 gallon sump but there isn't a lot of space in it.
Other options seem to be just ordering copepods 1-2 times a month and just dumping them in the display tank. Or getting the above refugium and regularly ordering copepods to replenish it since I don't think we could grow enough copepods to keep two scooters and a future mandarin happy.
Anyone here have any scooters or mandarins? If so, what do you feed them?