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![]() Hey everybody,
I just went to my LFS and saw a mandarin dragonet. I know that they are hard to keep and have specific food requirements, but do they only copepods? If they do, i don't think i would have a large enough setup to sustain it ( 50 gallon with 20 gallon sump). Anyone have any thought? Please make this constructive! |
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![]() get the LFS to drop some food in the tank see if he goes for it.
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![]() You could learn it to eat frozen shrimps, but it is hard and once it learned still you should always turn off your powerheads and spot feed it because they are really slow.
"Samw" has one in his 40 gallon tank,it is doing great and he dont feed frozen food his tank! you could ask him. |
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![]() I have bought a few of them that didnt eat prepared food and weaned them onto prep in QT, once thats done there the same as any other fish... If you do not attempt this and try to sustain them on pods they are far harder to maintain.
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![]() its one fish i always take a good look at how fat it is before i buy it, some look so thin i stay away, pick a fat one!
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![]() As far as frozen foods go, I have had the best luck using Hikari frozen mysis while working with mandarins. It is quite a bit smaller than PE mysis and more substantial than frozen pods/rotifers. It is getting harder and harder to find however. Might have to shop around for it.
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![]() Good idea, i will give that a try!
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![]() Thanks for the advice everyone! I will go and take a look at him tomorrow and try and find some of the food you have been talking about! Thanks!
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![]() I have two and do not train them. I have pods in the refugium. They are both fat and one of them goes nuts with NLS pellets!
I feed my tanks with mysis shrimps, flakes, roe, NLS pellets, and nori.
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160G (72"x22"x23.5") Mixed Reef, 30G Sump/Refugium, Vertex Illumina SR1800 LED Fixture, Reefbrite 60" & 72" actinic, Nanobox Tide and Reefbrite LED for frag sump, Vertex Alpha Cone 200 Skimmer with cleaner, ATB Flowstar 1500 Return Pump on 2 x APC Smart-UPS 1500, ATB Flowstar 4200 with OM4 Closed Loop, 2 Phosban Reactors for Carbon and GFO, Profilux SA3 Doser, Tunze Nano Wavebox, Tunze 6085, Jebao RW15, Rena LG100 Auto Feeder, Profilux Breeze 4 fans, Apex Controller, and Vertex RO/DI. |
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![]() Very, very unlikely to get a feeding response in the LFS. It can take a ling time to get them eating.
I have a mandarin , alone, in a twenty. She is eating I am sure as she is fat. The tank has no competition so any pods are hers. I also use a HOB fuge. O drop in NLS finicky pellets and although I have yet to actually see her consume them, she definitely gets excited when pellets float around c Good luck. Do more research and choose wisely.
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