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I got mine to eat some, keyword SOME ocean nutrition formula 2 small pellets after soaking them in garlic guard mixed with Benepets and some frozen San Francisco Bay variety pack cubes. Soaked for 4-5 minutes and tried to target blast his zone and I saw him eat one of the pellets. My LFS said that a customer takes some airline tube that’s been hidden in some LR by drilling out a hole and then connects a syringe filled with food and does slow controlled blasts of crushed flake food with brine shrimp. The mandarin knows that rock feeds him and when it sees some food come out he eats whatever comes out of there. I’ve never seen it with my own eyes but considered doing it myself.Any suggestions to get mandarins back on pellets? I recently received a pair and was waiting on pellet food to arrive by mail so all I had was Live baby brine shrimp for the first few days they were in the tank. Now they won't eat anything besides live baby brine.