Mandarin questions
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Rollins4Miles
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I've had a few mandarin dragonets over the years and I've never seen them eat amphipods. Perhaps if it was a full grown adult and a smaller amphipod it could eat it, but otherwise I've just seen them pick at copepods. Maybe someone with some more experience can chime in.
POOLSCAPES
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I feed my brine shrimp daily. They are cut up in fine parts so he seems to eat them fine. It's is rewarding to have them in my nanos. I was nervous that this was not possible. I talked to my friend who did this and it worked for me. I did loose one the first time. He did not want anything to do with brine. Shrimp mysis and .ect.
Brine shrimp are not a nutritious food. How long have you had these?
The scooter is probably going to starve. They do not eat amphipods, since they have very small mouths. Also, we often see people who have a tank they consider 'overpopulated' with pods. They get a dragonet of some kind, which proceeds to eat all the pods in a very short amount of time and then starve to death.
Scooters need hundreds of copepods a day to survive, and there probably aren't many copepods at all if you have a lot of amphipods. Unless you can wean it onto a VERY nutritious food like fresh baby brine shrimp (which are highly nutritious because they still have the yolk sacs), it's going to starve.
MondoBongo
Obligate Feeder Obsessed
i don't think you understand the feeding requirements of dragonets. these guys may look slow and relaxed, but they're highly effective predators for their preferred zooplankton.
"different colors" as you previously stated don't eat different things. :facepalm:
keeping one dragonet is a 40 gallon sized tank is an uphill battle to begin. leave it at one.
