I had 2 wild green mandarins in my 75 gallons for many months. Before that they were in my 21 gallons alone and I trained them there to eat frozen food. They both eat fish roe, Hikari frozen bloodworms and live white worms as well as pods. Neither of mine toutched mysis. Most Ora mandarin are as hard to feed as wild mandarins and much more expensive because all they eat is OVA eggs. I read a lot of stories about people buying them at high price only to see them die from starvation because they did not know the fish eated OVA shrimp eggs and did not want to take mysis. Caplan eggs from the fishery does the same. It's the Masago, or these little orange eggs that we find on sushi. Most wild mandarin will love that.
They were both fat and healthy after one year until I got a yellow tang and he killed my male mandarin. Now I only have the female remaining.
I would skip the bangai cardinal pair as if they pair up they will be terror to other fish. One bangai is enough unless you want to breed them and you don't mind them attacking your other fish.
Last edited by daniella3d; 12-12-2010 at 12:14 PM.
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