Green mandarin - good sign?

[brett559]

I've had my mandarin for about a month now. He was pretty shy at first, but after a few days he came out of hiding and has been active ever since. He doesn't get any of the food I add to the tank, but he flits around all day and I see him pecking at pods off the rocks and glass. It's been a month and he's active and I don't see any sign of getting skinny.

This is a very good sign, correct? If there was nothing for him to eat, he'd be in bad shape by now, right? I have a very healthy refugium and I removed a melanarus and copperband, so I bought the mandarin pretty confident in my pod population.

Good sign?

 

[Lucky Lefty]

A good sign.. but its commonly expressed by the most experienced hobbyists that success with a mandarin is passing the 1 year mark.
So far sounds good though. Good luck the rest of the way.

 

[tc2007]

I've had my mandarin for about a month now. He was pretty shy at first, but after a few days he came out of hiding and has been active ever since. He doesn't get any of the food I add to the tank, but he flits around all day and I see him pecking at pods off the rocks and glass. It's been a month and he's active and I don't see any sign of getting skinny.

This is a very good sign, correct? If there was nothing for him to eat, he'd be in bad shape by now, right? I have a very healthy refugium and I removed a melanarus and copperband, so I bought the mandarin pretty confident in my pod population.

Good sign?

Are you having a rock rubble in the tank or the fuge or just the chaeto for letting the pods multiply? Do you see pods all around the tank?

 

[brett559]

I have a lot of live rock in the tank and some rubble in the sump. I have a large chaeto sump. It's hard to see the pods, but they are in there.

 

[MondoBongo]

so far, so good.

depending on the condition they came in you can usually expect them to start gaining some weight versus their condition after shipping. i know my mandy started plumping up nicely over the first few months in my tank, as opposed to how she looked when i first got her.

 

[laga77]

Now, get some Black worms or white worms and start feeding him at least 2xday and he will get nice and fat.