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Old 12-05-2013, 04:37 PM
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Well it took many months, but I finally have my female green mandarin eating pellets. My female perc, pics them from the bottom and they collect in one corner from the flow.
She use to go over there to see whats going on but never picked up the pellets. Today she picking them as fast as she could. Looked funny, both females, side by side, pigging out on pellets.

Now I have to find her a hubbie that eating.....
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Old 12-05-2013, 06:52 PM
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Well it took many months, but I finally have my female green mandarin eating pellets. My female perc, pics them from the bottom and they collect in one corner from the flow.
She use to go over there to see whats going on but never picked up the pellets. Today she picking them as fast as she could. Looked funny, both females, side by side, pigging out on pellets.

Now I have to find her a hubbie that eating.....
That's the best relief knowing you can get a auto feeder if you leave and not worry about your pod eaters. i finally got my dwarf lion on frozen never tried pellets yet congrats
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Old 12-05-2013, 07:20 PM
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That is amazing. Did you do anything to condition her or did she figure it out on her own?
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Old 12-05-2013, 07:30 PM
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Had him four months in the tank without food . I'd feed him a minnow once in a while and it wasn't looking good.

Got a trigger that he hated , picked on him so he started eating all the triggers food , got strong and killed the trigger . Lol

Most fish figure it out watching other fish , but dragonets are picky , I heard females are a little easier to train not sure if this is true. I had one eat frozen for a little while and my pod population crashed and he refused to eat anything . Like he got sad and died . Had him for almost a year

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Old 12-05-2013, 07:40 PM
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Nice! Was the mandarin eating mysis or any other offered foods in the mean time? I just got a pair of red scooter dragonettes and have them eating frozen mysis right now, maybe I should give pellets a try too.
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Unless you got them on the large mysis they be ok. Small ones are not enough I don't think .
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Old 12-05-2013, 08:03 PM
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I'm lucky. My female eats mysis, blood worm, pellets, the Instant Ocean gel food that came with my salt, flake. She's easy
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Old 12-05-2013, 09:24 PM
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There is a thread on another site and the fellow is feeding Nutramar Ova to dragonets and they gobble it up. I had good luck feeding mine mysis, until she went carpet surfing
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Had him four months in the tank without food . I'd feed him a minnow once in a while and it wasn't looking good.
LOL, took me a couple seconds to figure out you meant your lionfish, and not a mandarin fish. I was like "... a ... minnow ????? What kind of monster mandarin are we talking about??"
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Old 12-05-2013, 10:22 PM
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Hahah ya my mandarin was huge though probably the biggest one I ever seen . ., lol
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