Psychedelic mandarin pairings...

[psychedelic]

Hmmmm....says work in progress. Mebbe he/she took down the site for a bit.

[seashells]

You should probably have a male and female. We have a pair of male and female scooter dragonets. They perform their mating dance every evening. Just need popcorn. We added a psychedelic mandarin. They all get a long fine. So we think the mandarin is female. Still looking for a male mandarin. Males are supposed to be identified by a very tall dorsal fin. Good luck.

Doug & Shellie

[Chaloupa]

We purchased a female...let her settle for many months and made sure that we could feed her properly....then we purchased a healthy male that was a bit smaller...they don't fight at all and hang out quite a bit ...find one and the other will be quite close. I think we may have just been lucky, and our fish have lots of pods and food to eat...good luck! They are great fish if your tank is old enough! Keep checking the site for Teakie....very cool site!

[EmilyB]

I've had better luck with a large male and smaller female. The first big female I had was relentless. Just IME.

[charlesr1958]

Originally Posted by psychedelic

Hmmmm....says work in progress. Mebbe he/she took down the site for a bit.

Sorry, I had forgotten that she said she was updating it, I am sure it will be back up very soon. Might try again later if I know her, she usualy works on it and is back up in no time. I can not stress though how much info on just mandarins is available there. Very much worth the wait.

Chuck

[seashells]

If you're really concerned about making sure they have enough food we have had good success getting them to take blood worms and live brine shrimp.


Doug

[briansmyth]

This article has some very interesting information about the complex spawning ritual ( and you thought it was difficult just getting a date for Saturday night); it also talks a bit about how the annual harvesting of 40 million reef fish from the ocean could upset the balance of `things'.

I realize that this thread was started in 2006, but I felt this was an appropriate place to put this post and link.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...darinfish.html

[Doug]

At least they are easily sexed, as compared with many other fish. As mentioned, food, would be a major concern. I thought I once seen a good article on one of the online mags, but without searching, dont remember which month it was.



charlesr1958,

Welcome to Canreef. I never knew you were a member on Canreef, until now. Its great to see you here. Although not a member on MD, I read it always, esp. following some of your threads.

A unique approach to keeping reef aquariums. Very natural looking. And a great website.



anyways, enough of topic, back to the mandarins.