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    Posted: February 08 2009 at 5:30pm
I already have a green spoted Mandarin goby ... and my girlfriend wants to get a regular mandarin goby as well...  this is in my 90g reef... I still see amphipods time to time but not much as I had used to...
 
What im worried about is the low population of copepods and amphipods  and there not being enough food to house a green spoted and a regular mandarin....
 
I've also heard that these two might fight?    
 
anyway, Im wondering where would be a good place to buy copepods, and amphipods,??
 
I also picked up a culture of tiggerpods yesterday that im going to start growing.... hopefully they help as well. 
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I like triggerpods. I think copepods and stuff just have to grow naturally. 2 males will fight, So pick out a female if you already have a male. Males have longer fins on the top.
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IMO a 90g isn't nearly big enough for two mandarins.  Maybe if you have a large fuge with a huge macro chamber to breed the pods in...  but even just one mandarin can effect the population by a lot. (as you have noticed)
If you just want to buy more pods for them you are going to go broke.  I don't know of an LFS that sells amphipods or copepods.
You might start a culture, something like this  https://livecopepods.com/zencart/ But even then it would cost $50 + s/h to get started in your tank.
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