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Oh I forgot!!! The first one I bought was eaten alive by my arrow crab!!! I caught him eating him! Here’s the photo.... I killed that crab immediately.
You killed the arrow crab? Why in the world would you do that?
He ate my mandarin. Punishment had to be swift to keep the reef from erupting into violent chaos! [emoji6]
I got mine from Live Aquaria. Wish I had gotten a pair.Check out biota, I believe they sell captive bred. Not sure where the OP got his from.
Hey guys
My Tank 45G has been running for 5 months now,
I do not know if i have any copepods... I used dry rock for my build.
Is my tank too "New" to have one of these fish ? or should I seed my tank with copepods first ?
Thanks!
Not to sway anyone one way or another but I would still seed the tank with pods and feed phyto for a couple months to let the population build before adding even a captive bred. These fish hunt all day every day.... sure eating mysis or LRS at feeding time is great but the fishes true nature is still there.
Its very easy for them to not get any frozen at feeding time if your other fish are aggresive/fast eaters as most will be. I have to turkey baste food directly to mine with zero flow going to make sure he gets his.
Just food for thought
Just saw my mandarin eat 4 pellets from the sand !!!! Yay me !!!!
Yay you? Yeah Mandarin! [emoji6]
Not to sway anyone one way or another but I would still seed the tank with pods and feed phyto for a couple months to let the population build before adding even a captive bred. These fish hunt all day every day.... sure eating mysis or LRS at feeding time is great but the fishes true nature is still there.
Its very easy for them to not get any frozen at feeding time if your other fish are aggresive/fast eaters as most will be. I have to turkey baste food directly to mine with zero flow going to make sure he gets his.
Just food for thought
My understanding is that the issue is more that their digestive system is evolved such that they can't digest large meals efficiently. Instead they eat a small meal (pod) on average every 6 seconds. So even if they eat something larger than a pod, like some frozen, they don't get nutrition relative to the greater size of the food and would need to eat frozen like 100 times (or more) a day to compensate for not being able to hunt pods.Yeah, that's what I was wondering about. If you have a bunch of aggressive-eating fish, even if you have captive-bred Mandarins, aren't they likely to not get enough to eat because of their tendency for being slow eaters and generally slow movers?
I've been wanting a pair of red mandarins for over 3 years, got any pics! Any info where to get them bluezoo has them but very very limited. And the last order from them came in with velvet and all diedI have a red mandarin that’s doing great . Could I put a green captive to teach it to eat frozen lol. Maybe ?
I've been wanting a pair of red mandarins for over 3 years, got any pics! Any info where to get them bluezoo has them but very very limited. And the last order from them came in with velvet and all died