Follow up from this thread:
Promising signs, the skinny captive bred Mandarin I saw at my LFS was seen eating some fish eggs a couple days ago so I decided to come by on my day off and take him in so she could have a better chance in my tank. In the couple days before I set up an acclimation box and put a couple rocks in along with some food sources to attract pods in so that everything would be all set and a steady supply would be available.
After the acclimation it went to work on the pods in the tank. I took this as a promising sign and added in some TDO pellets, which it occasionally picked at as well. Thankfully I’m not really seeing any signs of lethargy so gonna keep my fingers crossed and hope that it’ll be able to fatten up quickly.
I’m also pretty sure this is a female, so her new name will now be Fishy Elliot.
Is this Mandarin skinny?
In the case that a fish does feed off its liver, is it essentially moribund at that point? It can become. The pic you doers posted suggest a skinny mandarin
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Promising signs, the skinny captive bred Mandarin I saw at my LFS was seen eating some fish eggs a couple days ago so I decided to come by on my day off and take him in so she could have a better chance in my tank. In the couple days before I set up an acclimation box and put a couple rocks in along with some food sources to attract pods in so that everything would be all set and a steady supply would be available.
After the acclimation it went to work on the pods in the tank. I took this as a promising sign and added in some TDO pellets, which it occasionally picked at as well. Thankfully I’m not really seeing any signs of lethargy so gonna keep my fingers crossed and hope that it’ll be able to fatten up quickly.
I’m also pretty sure this is a female, so her new name will now be Fishy Elliot.