Mandarins...who has a healthy one?
 

Just wondering of those who have or have had mandarins...what size tank did you have them in, how much live rock and how established was your tank?

thanks

I have one, a male psychadelic. He has been with me for at least 2 years, he readily accepts prepared foods, as well as he hunts for both pods, and live brine shrimp, when I introduce it.

Mine currently lives in my 24g nano, but came from a 230g system. My tank while itself is new, everything thing in it has been with me from 6 months to 3 years. I have approximately 25lbs in my display portion of my nano.

I had one for 4+ years in a 75g with about 130lbs of live rock (no sump or refugium).
It took him about a year and a half to start eating mysis shrimp

Two here. Green Mandarins. Synchiropus splendidus. One male, one female.
180g tank. Big sump, with 'fuge. 250 gallons net.
336 lbs live rock.
Tank established since December 06.
Had them longer than that and they've survived at least one move...maybe two...I forget.
They must be eating pods, because I never see them eating anything else.

Cheers,

Healthy and alive for 4 months.
 

My green mandarin has found enough to eat off the rocks from my year old 120g with about 100lbs of live rock. He just floats around with no fear of any of the much bigger fish and sifts in and out of the rock sticking out his small suction cup-like mouth at whatever looks appetizing.

Did anyone tryed this http://oceanaquatics.com/store/produ...rcti-Pods-6oz/
to feed mandarines?

Nope, I just hatched live brine, mine seems to go crazy for it!

I bought a bottle of tigger pods from OA. Turned the lights off and dumped in 1/2 bottle in the tank and 1/2 in the fuge. Worked so well my manderin didn't eat frozen dinners ever again.

My mandarin eats frozen mysis

can you see them multiply in you tank / fuge?
i tried tvice and never saw a single tiger pod again.

let me know if you want to sell him, I’ll pay twice the LFS price.

Maybe they don't 'do it" while you watch...play some barry white get them in the mood :)

But, reed mariculture the people who supply the pods have or at least had some info on this type of thing on their website.

I bought the tigger pods from OA, and my tank crawls with them now. I dont have a mandarin... yet. In a few months, though!

OMG !
Can you please tell me how long did you aclimatise them etc. whot do you think i am doing wrong?

Do you have a fuge? .If you put them all in the tank with the lights on ,they'll just be an expensive snack for the other fish .Dottybacks and wrasses can eat them also.

Maybe try getting some phyto-feast for the pods to feed on as well.

Got no fuge, i also put some in my Nano with no fish at all and NONE of tiger pods survived :( tried twice fist time 3 hrs of aclimatization , second time two days of aclimatization...

I feed plancton every other day.
This is just Fraging mistery to me.

Ah... maybe thats the difference. Most of my order went into the fuge section of my sump... no predators. I also dont have any serious pod predators in the tank ATM, and I think that helps, too.
I just used standard acclimation... dripped for a couple hours.

I have a 2-3 inch spotted mandrain that eats mostly frozen mysis, some baby brine shrimp and pods. He's been in my 30g cube tank (no fuge) for about 4-5 months and is doing very well.

My Nano has no fish in it and still pods would not stay alive ...:(

You have to acclimate tigger pods? It says on thier website "The Tigger Pods™ can be poured directly into your refugium and/or main tank."....

I pored half the bottle in a 1gal tank with water(1.024)fed phyto twice a week.Itake out 3 cups a week and pour in tank.1gal is just crawling with them

Well yes you are right it does say that, however they are stored in the fridge at AO and you can imaging the thermal shock going from +4C to +26C water its like taking a super hot shower after swimming in the ocean.
But hey i cant keep them alive in my tanks maybe i will try to keep them in separate container, because they were alive for 3 days in the supplyed bottle seem to be happy with phyto additions. But as soon as i put them in the any of my tanks; that was it for hardy tigers !


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