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Old 03-21-2006, 11:00 PM
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Originally Posted by EmilyB
I never really saw mine eat a pod. Pods move pretty freaking fast. He ate a lot of minute somethings from the rock, and definitely ate worms from the sandbed. You will notice fishbase has absolutely no information on the natural diet of mandarin dragonets.
I would tend to agree with that analysis. Let's take it a step further. I too have never seen my Mandarins eat pods. If indeed pods were their main diet would Mandarins not be nocturnal pod hunters when pods are active If I take a flashlight to my tank at night, I see hundreds of pods scurrying around. However, the Mandarin is sound asleep. The Mandarin appears to sleep very soundly. He loses almost all his colour, and passes out somewhere.
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