Mandarinfish.

[sarahkucera]

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<img src="http://www.midnightmadness.org/sarah/saltwater/020907/IMG_4556.JPG" width=700 height=500 title="" >

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Shot with a Canon Eos 30D.
Unfortunately I had been blowing off some rocks and the mandarinfish got a little bit of sand on him. He's been in my tank for nine months now, nice and fat.

Thanks for looking!

 

[saltfan]

Nice! Does he only accept copepods?

 

[sarahkucera]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9506556#post9506556 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by saltfan
Nice! Does he only accept copepods?

Occasionally I will see him pick at the general tank feeding but 9 times out of 10 will spit it out. I have more pods than I know what to do with, so he has never had the necessity of trying to eat something other than live pods.

 

[Rewd]

He's adorable. It's pictures like these that test your patience--waiting for a long-established tank to have one of these babies is tough.

 

[sarahkucera]

Thanks!
Patience is the name of this hobby.

 

[edwing206]

Man that fish is awesome.
Nice pics too.

 

[sarahkucera]

Thank you!
It helps that I started out with an optimally healthy fish fresh from the distributor so it hadn't had time to starve in the LFS tanks.

 

[nosh]

Wow great pics!

 

[sarahkucera]

Thank you!

 

[solinar]

nice!

 

[sarahkucera]

Thank you!