Confused with mandarin sub species!....pls comment.
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Lord Baltimore
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Not to get off topic, has anyone had any experience with ORA's Mandarins?
miserkris
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I cannot say. I love my pair of red ones.
miserkris
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Can isee pics pls?
I wouldn't suggest putting a mandarin in a 55 gallon tank. Even if it is accepting prepared foods, it will still hunt for pods and can quickly decimate the pod population in that size tank. They are constant grazers, stopping only to sleep.
Absolutely.
olemiss reb
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, buy the one you like.
Concerning the ORA mandarins. I've read about more failures than success with them accepting prepared foods. I tried two ORA targets that would not touch prepared foods. I currently have a pair of ORA blues in a 65 tank with pipes and garden eels that eat pellets, myid, and ova like champs. However, I have to use a turkey baster and spot feed them at least twice a day- everyday or they would starve. I've had them for 1.5 years and they would not survive without the spot-feeding.
I would not recommend putting one in a 55 even if it's an ORA. The success rate just isn't there.
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Concerning the ORA mandarins. I've read about more failures than success with them accepting prepared foods. I tried two ORA targets that would not touch prepared foods. I currently have a pair of ORA blues in a 65 tank with pipes and garden eels that eat pellets, myid, and ova like champs. However, I have to use a turkey baster and spot feed them at least twice a day- everyday or they would starve. I've had them for 1.5 years and they would not survive without the spot-feeding.
I would not recommend putting one in a 55 even if it's an ORA. The success rate just isn't there.
older pic of male--
current pic of male--
older female pic--
current female pic--
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