mandarin dragonet
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giambi4343
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i have had 1 for about 6 months and he is doing great. i dont have a refugium but i have about 125 lbs of live rock. just make sure you have a lot of live rock and try to feed cycops-eeze. they seem to like to munch on that.
wrasseguy2
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feeding cyclopeze is not going to keep a mandarin longterm they need pods to stay healthy and they eat and hunt them all day..how long have you had your tank? what other fish do you have in there
holycrapbrian
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i have 2 mandarins (Barney and Betty) in my 40gal just after 6months of setting up the tank. Though I got my mandarins to eat frozen. That was almost 2 years ago.
I have another spotted mandarin in a 10 gal also eating frozen. That was 3 years ago.
I got the technique from my LFS whose had their mandarin for 5 years + on frozen too with no LR. FWIW.
It does take patience and good amount of time (1+ hour each time) to train them to eat frozen at the beginning, but once they do start eating, it's like feeding any other fish.....though i use a large syringe and squirt the food to the bottom of the tank where they're hanging out.
I have another spotted mandarin in a 10 gal also eating frozen. That was 3 years ago.
I got the technique from my LFS whose had their mandarin for 5 years + on frozen too with no LR. FWIW.
It does take patience and good amount of time (1+ hour each time) to train them to eat frozen at the beginning, but once they do start eating, it's like feeding any other fish.....though i use a large syringe and squirt the food to the bottom of the tank where they're hanging out.
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