Mandarin Dragonet

[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.