Mating Mandarin Dragonets

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MediTank

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I am interested in trying to mate a pair of mandarin dragonets.... has anyone out there had any good experiences? I have been keeping these fish for a while now but have never tried breeding.... where should i start? :dance:
 
I have read that these are the hardest to get to breed. Or should I say. They dont breed well in captivity..

I can be wrong. I have a pair.. i am Happy with just having a male and a female..

Ive spoke with a few ppl and have walked away happy. They cannot find a female and just have a single male because their second male that they thought was a female was a bully so they sold/traded him..

If my pair mate.. ill be winging it!!


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males are by far the most collected... but females come in quite often (I worked in the wholesale liestock side for many years).
 
Getting them to breed is the easy part, it's rearing the larvae that is the hard part. For breeding, they need to be well fed, fat and happy. They also need a fairly deep tank in order to do their spawning dance in the water column at dusk...the dusk thing also means you need to set up lighting to simulate a gradual sunset.
 
thanks for all the input so far.... I really appreciate it.... another question on the mind is it ok to mix green mandarins and psychedelic mandarins? as long as they are male and female of course! I have kept either green or psychedelics but I have never tried mixing them but I think that the mixing colors would be a wonderful sight to see! let me know what the community is thinking! :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance:
 
Mixing is going to really depend on how large the tank is. They need the space to be able to get away from each other instead of fighting all the time.
 
Getting them to breed is the easy part, it's rearing the larvae that is the hard part. For breeding, they need to be well fed, fat and happy.
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Bill is correct. If they are healthy and well fed, you can't stop them from breeding as mine do all the time. I have been keeping mandarins since they started importing them in the 70s
My tank is old and there is plenty to eat but if you feed them extra, they will constantly breed. I don't believe in supplementing mandarins diet with frozen food or pellets (although very few will eat those) But to get them to spawn I feed them every day with newborn brine shrimp that I put in this DIY feeder.


She was new here and skinny. That is the same female that is spawning above


Here is a video of them eating from the feeder.



This video is when I got this young female, she was very skinny here. Now she spawns every month or so.

 
wow i didnt no that they would spawn that often.... i have reared clowns before so im up for that challenge.... what was the DIY feeder that you were using at the bottom of the tank? it looked like a piece of tuperware with holes poked in the lid? :beer:
 
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