Showing off my Target Mandarin eating pellets

Mflores888 · Feb 23, 2021

I've had him for about 7 months now. I never really tried to teach him to eat pellets, he sort of just started eating the TDO X-Small pellets out of nowhere. I feed my small 10g tank those pellets cause I have tiny clowns and gave my display tank the X-small pellets so that the big fish wouldn't eat everything and not give my smaller blennies food. Surprise surprise my mandarin ate them as well. Now he eats pellets, frozen mysis, and flakes.

P-Dub · Feb 23, 2021

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Mflores888 said:
I've had him for about 7 months now. I never really tried to teach him to eat pellets, he sort of just started eating the TDO X-Small pellets out of nowhere. I feed my small 10g tank those pellets cause I have tiny clowns and gave my display tank the X-small pellets so that the big fish wouldn't eat everything and not give my smaller blennies food. Surprise surprise my mandarin ate them as well. Now he eats pellets, frozen mysis, and flakes.Th

It's a win for sure!

haitian_reefer · Feb 23, 2021

That's awesome! Do you have any aggressive eaters with it? My current stocklist wouldn't let 1 pellet fall to the bottom. LOL

Hermie · Feb 23, 2021

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Mflores888 · Feb 23, 2021

haitian_reefer said:
That's awesome! Do you have any aggressive eaters with it? My current stocklist wouldn't let 1 pellet fall to the bottom. LOL

All of my fish except my firefish are aggressive eaters. My fox face sticks his mouth of the water and bites my fingers for food, my blue tang will case food down all the way to the sand, my yellow corris will lift sand looking for the food and fight my other fish for it, my midus bites really hard, and my citron goby steals food from everyone. That's why the X-Small one's are really good cause they are so tiny they cant get all of them

Lizzievon · Mar 15, 2021

Mflores888 said:
I've had him for about 7 months now. I never really tried to teach him to eat pellets, he sort of just started eating the TDO X-Small pellets out of nowhere. I feed my small 10g tank those pellets cause I have tiny clowns and gave my display tank the X-small pellets so that the big fish wouldn't eat everything and not give my smaller blennies food. Surprise surprise my mandarin ate them as well. Now he eats pellets, frozen mysis, and flakes.

Wow! He is even LOOKING for them! That's great!

Guy714 · Mar 15, 2021

That’s great for sure. You are lucky!

Daniel@R2R · Mar 15, 2021

Very cool!! He's fat and happy!

sixline · Mar 15, 2021

The video doesn't work for me, but I've gotta ask:

What is a target Mandarin?

Mflores888 · Mar 15, 2021

sixline said:
The video doesn't work for me, but I've gotta ask:

What is a target Mandarin?

They are also know as bullseye, green, psychedelic, and spotted mandarin. They have a different color scheme and pattern than the regular one's

Mflores888 · Mar 15, 2021

Lizzievon said:
Wow! He is even LOOKING for them! That's great!

The only thing he doesn't actively look for is frozen. He eats it but he usually eats pellets over frozen

Salted · Mar 16, 2021

Wonder if they float around just enough to mimic small pods. I just put a red mandarin in my tank last week and want to keep it happy. I have plenty of pods but options are nice.

CurtnStac · Mar 16, 2021

I have a pellet eating Mandarin as well!
I actually bought him that way (raised on tdo)

haitian_reefer · Mar 16, 2021

CurtnStac said:
I have a pellet eating Mandarin as well!
I actually bought him that way (raised on tdo)

Any tank mates? If so, how does it compete for food?

Rmckoy · Mar 16, 2021

Mflores888 said:
They are also know as bullseye, green, psychedelic, and spotted mandarin. They have a different color scheme and pattern than the regular one's

that one ?

CurtnStac · Mar 16, 2021

haitian_reefer said:
Any tank mates? If so, how does it compete for food?

I have 2 clowns and a Springer damsel. I turn off all flow and they eat up front in the water column. My mandarin perches on a rock and his pellets settle in front of him.
None of the other fish bother him because they're to busy catching their food.

Mflores888 · Mar 16, 2021

Rmckoy said:
that one ?

Yep that's the one, you got a male as well

Mflores888 · Mar 16, 2021

Salted said:
Wonder if they float around just enough to mimic small pods. I just put a red mandarin in my tank last week and want to keep it happy. I have plenty of pods but options are nice.

I had flatworms (the brown ones that don't harm as much) that I got when I bought a frogspawn and he ate the flatworms, maybe he sees the same color and assumes they are flatworms?