Mandarin Longevity / Lifespan - how long have you had your Mandarins?

[mwp]

Simple curious question, if you're keeping or have kept Green Mandarins, how long have you been able to keep them alive? The reason I ask is to help forecast how long I might expect my pair to stick around and keep up their incessant breeding

 

[falconut]

I've had mine for 10 months now and he is doing great and looks fat & happy.

 

[Beckmola24]

I've had mine for a year now, but she eats Spectrum pellet food and frozen mysis. She is fat and happy

 

[EvilMel]

I had one for more than 5 years and he was a fat little sausage of a mandarin. He died about 3 years ago and now I recently got a mated pair of spotted mandarins. I am hoping they get to be little sausages too.

 

[mwp]

Mine have been around for just about a year now..fat, breeding like crazy etc. I'm hoping they'll stay around for a LONG time!

MP

 

[technoshaman]

I have a single spotted mandarin in my 210 for as long as I've had it set up (since 2003). Will occasionally eat live brine and cyclopeeze but mostly just cruises the rocks. Did have a rainford's goby a couple years that might have been a food competitor in retrospect but he dissapeared.

 

[EvilMel]

Does anyone have a clue what the actual life expectancy is for these guys? I always thought mine had died of old age, because who knows how old he was when I got him.

 

[dhoch]

I've got a scooter who has been around 2.5 years and my green mandarin 1.5.... both still alive

Dave

 

[EvilMel]

Thought I'd post a picture of my pair of spotted mandarins.

This is a picture from the day I got them.

 

[vanmle]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7650481#post7650481 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by EvilMel
Thought I'd post a picture of my pair of spotted mandarins.

This is a picture from the day I got them.

Those mandarins are awesome. Beautiful picture.

 

[EvilMel]

Thanks. What's funny is that you can actually see the difference between the male and female if you look closely. Check out the fins!

Seriously, I have no clue how I took a picture like that...hah hah.

 

[cateyes]

EvilMel -- are those the manderines you got from turboex901 in memphis, several months ago???

i've been wondering how they were getting along...

 

[EvilMel]

Yeah it's the same ones. They are doing great!

I got the 240 set up and moved them over a couple of weeks ago.

I have been ordering some copepods/arcticpods from Reed Mariculture to make sure they have enough food. I am so totally paranoid about it I am getting ready to order them some more even though about three weeks ago I ordered them 6 3 oz bottles. I feed the arctic pods twice a day to try to help and make sure they have enough.

 

[Angel*Fish]

Here's my pair I love these little fish - they like to criuse around together and as you can see, the female is swollen up with eggs.

 

[mwp]

Marie, it looks like both of 'em are females from this shot - the one in the foreground doesn't look like it has the extended first dorsal ray (or is it hidden or nipped off)?

Matt

 

[Angel*Fish]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7661281#post7661281 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by mwp
Marie, it looks like both of 'em are females from this shot - the one in the foreground doesn't look like it has the extended first dorsal ray (or is it hidden or nipped off)?

Matt

He just has it down -

 

[DavidG1966]

This poll was taken about 7 years ago. Maybe we can revive the poll and see if people are doing better now.

Baseline Poll Numbers from 7 years ago:

 

[greg1786]

Ive had my female target mandarin for 8 months and shes a fat little porker. Im hoping once she raches a year and half ill be able to find her a healthy male companion. I am curious though, what is the average life span for a mandarin in the wild?

 

[incognitus]

I have a male with more than 5 years alive. He eats ocean nutrition 2 when hungry but if not just from the rock, and lives in 33 galons.

I have now fear that can die of age so this poll is very interesting to me.

 

[lcs]

I only had mine for eight months . He was very skinny when I bought him, but he was eating frozen brine. I trained him to eat Nutramar Ova, bloodworms, and we were working on pellets. I would target feed him on the same rock, at the same coral and would go there as soon as I put the feeding tube in the tank. He was nice and fat when I found him dead on Christmas Eve day. I was so sad. He was such a cool fish, so willing to try the foods I offered him and so smart.