My seahorses are molesting my leaf fish

[sloshesv]

They can do so freaky stuff with those tails. But it's okay, he likes it.

 

[BreadmanMike]

 

[louist]

Mine grabs onto the little mandarin if she steals her mysis during feeding. It's quite funny watching the mandarin swim around with a SH hitched onto her.

 

[sloshesv]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7506505#post7506505 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by louist
Mine grabs onto the little mandarin if she steals her mysis during feeding. It's quite funny watching the mandarin swim around with a SH hitched onto her.

Are those live or frozen mysis?

 

[louist]

Frozen. Both my SH (H. barbouri) and mandarin (S. picturatus) are on frozen mysis.

 

[sloshesv]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7512745#post7512745 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by louist
Frozen. Both my SH (H. barbouri) and mandarin (S. picturatus) are on frozen mysis.

Did you train the mandarin to take the frozen? How big is your tank and how much LR? Sorry about all the questions and TIA.

 

[louist]

sloshesv, I bought her already on frozen. She was a the LFS with a blue one (S. splendidus), and I had the guys at the LFS keep an eye on her to see if she's eating frozen. 1wk later I got a demo of her taking frozen brine.

After buying her, I swtiched her diet to frozen mysis after about 2 weeks. She prefers the smaller pieces, since the large ones doesn't fit in her mouth too well.

My tank is 35liters (10g) with 4kg of LR. She's gained a lot of weight since switched her to mysis (she was in a FO tank with many aggresive tankmates at the LFS). 2 feeding a day, since that's the feeding schedule for the SH.

Is that enough info? IMHO, I got lucky with this gem of a find!

 

[sloshesv]

Thanks buddy, that covered it. I've been on the look out for a mandarin that takes frozen food for at least a year now. I covet your fish.

 

[Lumpus]

Is the froen eater a green pyschedelic mandarin...the one with orange circles? It seems those are more likely to eat frozen than those sexy guys with purple on them !

 

[louist]

sloshesv, she was a rather slow feeder at the start, but eventually learnt that the pipetter = food. Now she will compete with the horse for mysis. She pecks at the horses's snout if the horse takes her food (the horse in turn hitches onto the mandarin to scare her off).

It does appear to me that Aussie animals are more opportunistic! A lady I know owns an Orarnge Spotted Filefish that loves BBQ chicken and chocolate and hates coral polyps... and we thought they are impossible to keep!

Lumpus: No, she's the green one (S. picturatus). I always mention the scientific name for the purpose, since I hate the layman's terms. I believe people call them "spotted mandarin", "target mandarin", while the pyshedelic is the blue/red one. Hell I don't know!! Scientific name rules

S. splendidus = blue one
S. picturatus = green one