Bored4ever86
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I've heard it both ways and was wondering your guys take on this
People have told me that you should never keep a mandarin in a tank with a nem cause the mandarins are just too slow and without scales are inevitably doomed in such a tank to become food. Opposed to that others say due to their slimey skin nems can't/don't sting/eat mandarins and it's perfectly fine to house both in a tank
I ask cause "Nema" (my mom named it...) a female true perc is looking to host anything she can in the tank and I'd love to give her a rbta or something similar. Only drawback is the pair of mandarins in the tank that were there before her and I don't plan on moving them as they are my favorite fish.
Nema can move into my friends tank in ~2 months or so with her own rbta if it's not an option.
If anyone was wondering it's a 125g fowlr tank currently housing an emperor angel, Niger trigger, zebra damsel, 6-line, 2mandarins, and a true perc clown
Also opinion on adding a small clown trigger? The Niger is pretty shy/easily spooked if there's too much fast movement outside of the tank but otherwise gets along well with everyone else and the angel is still a juv (had some prob with these 2 at first but now it's all good as the Niger became submissive to the angel)
People have told me that you should never keep a mandarin in a tank with a nem cause the mandarins are just too slow and without scales are inevitably doomed in such a tank to become food. Opposed to that others say due to their slimey skin nems can't/don't sting/eat mandarins and it's perfectly fine to house both in a tank
I ask cause "Nema" (my mom named it...) a female true perc is looking to host anything she can in the tank and I'd love to give her a rbta or something similar. Only drawback is the pair of mandarins in the tank that were there before her and I don't plan on moving them as they are my favorite fish.
Nema can move into my friends tank in ~2 months or so with her own rbta if it's not an option.
If anyone was wondering it's a 125g fowlr tank currently housing an emperor angel, Niger trigger, zebra damsel, 6-line, 2mandarins, and a true perc clown
Also opinion on adding a small clown trigger? The Niger is pretty shy/easily spooked if there's too much fast movement outside of the tank but otherwise gets along well with everyone else and the angel is still a juv (had some prob with these 2 at first but now it's all good as the Niger became submissive to the angel)
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