Hungry hungry white worm eating mandarin video!!!

[afboundguy]

I posted a similar video in the paul b white worm thread but this is a much better video showing how awesome white worms are and how much my mandarin loves them. She is swimming in the open water column to get her food! She is a fat happy little mandarin who just loves some white worms!!!

 

[P-Dub]

I know I'm getting old and the eyes don't quite work as well, but, I can't see a mandarine anywhere in that clip.

 

[Hallowhead]

I know I'm getting old and the eyes don't quite work as well, but, I can't see a mandarine anywhere in that clip.

I thought the same ? Than I thought maybe it's a joke that I don't understand !

 

[rapid]

hahahah i checked 4 times so far and my eyes are great there is no maderin in there !

 

[P-Dub]

hahahah i checked 4 times so far and my eyes are great there is no maderin in there !

I watched it more than 4 times... ;Oldman, ya know, just to be sure...

 

[afboundguy]

Ahhhh crap... Wrong video... Boy do I feel sheepish @P-Dub @rapid @Hallowhead

 

[rapid]

Wow lol congrats

 

[rapid]

We’re u getting ur white worms from

 

[P-Dub]

Baaaa, don't sweat it. Nice! I can see that for sure.

 

[P-Dub]

Ahhhh crap... Wrong video... Boy do I feel sheepish @P-Dub @rapid @Hallowhead

Baaaa, don't sweat it. Nice! I can see that for sure.

 

[GillMeister]

That IS a happy chubby little Goober.

 

[Dark_Knightt]

Awesome, i should try this with my mando. on an unrelated note, but has anyone noticed how BIG pyjama cardinals are? Like, with most fish, you see them online then you go to the store and theyre so much smaller, but the first time i saw a cardinal i was shocked! It was huge! I dont much like the look of em but i may get one because they are colorful.

 

[TriggerFinger]

Great video!! He hovers like a chubby little sausage! Love it!! I don’t see a whole lot of target mandarins; can you give some more information about it? How long have you had it? Is it wild caught? Any issues feeding initially? It’s obviously doing very well with you!

 

[afboundguy]

We’re u getting ur white worms from

I got a starter culture from a fellow member of my local club...

That IS a happy chubby little Goober.

Yes she is... But my wife says I shouldn't comment on female weights lol

Great video!! He hovers like a chubby little sausage! Love it!! I don’t see a whole lot of target mandarins; can you give some more information about it? How long have you had it? Is it wild caught? Any issues feeding initially? It’s obviously doing very well with you!

Got her captive bred from a LFS. She was eating frozen when I got her. I never really paid attention to if she eats and prepared food as I feed the tank brine shrimp daily through a spot feeder and have pod and phyto cultures and see plenty of pods on the glass still so I don't worry about her eating. Well I shouldn't say that sometimes I worry she'll choke on the white worms lol.

I got her when she was maybe 1" big and she's pushing 3"+ now the little pigger....

 

[Clownfish_Boy]

I posted a similar video in the paul b white worm thread but this is a much better video showing how awesome white worms are and how much my mandarin loves them. She is swimming in the open water column to get her food! She is a fat happy little mandarin who just loves some white worms!!!

That's a good solution to the problem of keeping a Mandarin fed. Where do you get the worms ?

 

[afboundguy]

That's a good solution to the problem of keeping a Mandarin fed. Where do you get the worms ?

I got them from a member of my local club. It's amazing I offer to give them away for free to supporting members of my local club and nobody wants them... I have two freebie samples I made up from last batch that I'm giving to a sponsor/friend of my club so he can start a culture and sell some since he gets way more foot traffic selling out of his basement. I told him I want a commission or continued preferred pricing on frags lol

I may consider selling some cultures but I would have to dig into how they do shipping-wise

 

[Clownfish_Boy]

I got them from a member of my local club. It's amazing I offer to give them away for free to supporting members of my local club and nobody wants them... I have two freebie samples I made up from last batch that I'm giving to a sponsor/friend of my club so he can start a culture and sell some since he gets way more foot traffic selling out of his basement. I told him I want a commission or continued preferred pricing on frags lol

I may consider selling some cultures but I would have to dig into how they do shipping-wise

If the worms are those annelid detritus worms, I would like to buy a culture from you. You could just put a couple of handfuls of sand that are full of the worms into a jar and ship them overnight, I would think. I will gladly pay for them and reimburse you for shipping if you are willing to do that for me.

 

[afboundguy]

@Clownfish_Boy I don't think they're annelid detritus worms I'm pretty sure they're Enchytraeus albidus worms like in this article...

Feeding Nemo: White Worms Show Potential as Inexpensive Food Source for Aquarium Fish

Ornamental aquarium fish like the clownfish Nemo and his pal the royal blue tang Dory one day may be dining on high-quality yet inexpensive white worms grown in New England. New research from the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of New Hampshire has found that live...

www.colsa.unh.edu

 

[Paul B]

Nice video. It also looks like you have a well worn "Paulb" mandarin feeder in there. Do you still use it?

BTW, I didn't name it that.

 

[josvanmeer]

Awesome, i should try this with my mando. on an unrelated note, but has anyone noticed how BIG pyjama cardinals are? Like, with most fish, you see them online then you go to the store and theyre so much smaller, but the first time i saw a cardinal i was shocked! It was huge! I dont much like the look of em but i may get one because they are colorful.

Same for chromis. I have seen some that are so huge like almost the size of tangs it’s insane