My mandarin eats pallets

[smilodon]

My mandarin is in my tank for 5 months now, and it didn't eat anything except live BS, and then slowly accept frozen blood worm, and then accept pallets.I think is the time to choose a female mandarin now.
And I remember famales have a short dorsal fin, but seems not entirely true.
My mandarin had a short dorsal fin before, but after it got fat up, it has a longer dorsal fin now. So how ot recognize the female except dorsal fin difference.

Here is the video and pics.

mandarin eats pallets

here is the mandarin 4 months ago and its dorsal fin is short,
but now it becomes long dorsal fin.
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=111742&d=1273416477

 

[Slim_jim989]

Great job in getting your mandarin to eat pellets, thats one very hard task. The only way to tell the difference is the dosal fin. Yours is a male and the females wont have that spike part of it. Just make sure your keeping up on your pod population too.

 

[subielover]

Wow, that is awesome!!!

 

[jaytizzle]

Congrats! That is a great accomplishment and will significantly improve your chances to keep them successfully!