mandarins don't eat mysis. At least I had 3 so far and never saw them even remotely interested in mysis, as it is way to big for them.
They like pods and small food. Mine eat live white worms, fish roe and live pods, that's about it.
I guess if yours was trying to eat mysis, he was maybe starving (probably since he's dead now).
I have 2 mandarins in my 70 gallons for 2 years now and if they did not have live white worms they would probably not survive out of the pods alone. I do have a large pod population but each day I feed live worms and each day they gobble quite a few of them so that show the pods are not enough to sustain them or they would not be hungry.
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Originally Posted by dkclend
OK thanks guys I think it is a lack of food for the little guys. I do watch them eat the mysis though. I will lay off stocking for a while.
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