Mandarin Dragonet

[andresont]

Do a search for a "Pod Condo"This is just a pile of live rock in the plastic net where pods can live multiply and hide

[nanoreefer]

ive had afew mandys and i used live brine enriched with selcon to wean them on to frozen food, i got a vary skinny beat up male that turned right around and looked grate after 4 months, i then got him a female and they lived just fine in a 10g for several months untile we had to move in the middel of winter, male got cotton like growths on his sides and died after a week and the female stopped eating anything even pods and died, i just got another one onto frozen and put him in the tank only to have him jump out after afew days after takeing three months to get onto fozen, if i do it again iam not growing my own brine thats for sure its a major PITA!,

[Puff]

everytime im in an LFS and see some mandarins i always ask if they are accepting frozen foods. the answer is always no, and im sure there are dozens of other ppl who ask the same thing. but i still get my hopes up lol

in thailand my dad has one in his tank (id say between 35 and 45 gallons). the thing is so healthy. at one point i noticed (via pictures) that it was getting skinny and harassed my dad about. he got his "fish guy" to dump a bunch more pods in there to reestablish it. now the mandarin is back to being plump.

[sharuq1]

Oh and idea for a pod pile that I did was just to have a ball of chaeto fishing-lined to a rock in the tank (my refugium is tiny in an ac110). It works.

[dabandit]

I bought one not knowing what they were poor guy ate my 14gal tank clean in a few days. Was watching one day and was very pleased to see my Clown teach him how to eat frozen food. He's now thriving on marine cuisine and the ocaisional batch of pods scooped from the refugium from my large setup

[MMAX]

Are they active at night mostly? I turned my tank lights on last night after they were off for about 20 min and the amount of pods in there was amazing. I think the fish would eat fairly well if they were nocturnal.

[hillbillyreefer]

They aren't nocturnal, when they sleep they turn a nasty grey color and appear dead. Pretty freaky the first time you see it.