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Moonstream
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beautiful, but often difficult to feed
Technically, it's a dragonet (not being a smarty pants, just stating in case you want to google it 
) They often won't eat dry/frozen foods, so require a large living amphipod population in the tank. They can, however, be trained onto prepared foods. Search mandarin feeding dishes/stations...
) They often won't eat dry/frozen foods, so require a large living amphipod population in the tank. They can, however, be trained onto prepared foods. Search mandarin feeding dishes/stations...I keep a pair of them. After I bought them I put them in a big fish breeder in the tank. Fed them with live pods and started adding frozen bit by bit while reducing the live food. After about a month they were greedily accepting fozen pods. Only then I released them into the tank. They feed well at feeding time, are fat and happy, mate and spawn regularly.
The key to keeping them is to find a HEALTHY pair. I was lucky, but also know of many cases where people lost their mandarins after a short while
The key to keeping them is to find a HEALTHY pair. I was lucky, but also know of many cases where people lost their mandarins after a short while
