Cheap Mandarins

[eguld]

Originally Posted by ScubaSteve

If you've got a large pod population they'll probably be alright. I'd get them right into the main tank rather than waiting in a 5.5G like you suggested. Try giving them bloodworms if you need to but you'll find they'll start picking your rocks pretty quick. I only got mine 2 days ago, so they might be skinny and hungry but certainly not goners.

Yes, I agree. I plan on putting them in the big tank.

[cwatkins]

Any updates from anyone who picked these guys up?

I picked up 2, one for myself and a buddy.

Mine is doing really well and within the last week has taken fondly to frozen Mysis (I did not intentionally attempt to get it to start eating frozen by doing anything special -- he just randomly started eating it during normal feeding time). I believe I have a good pod population.

My Buddy's picked up on frozen food within days which was great. But unfortunately he thinks it attempted to go down in a shrimp/goby burrow hole under the rockwork and got stuck and presumably died. Nothing in the tank could have eaten it, and it's not in the rockwork anywhere.

[Mandosh]

Mine is fat and healthy. Haven't been able to get him to eat frozen though.

[Keri]

Mine is also doing well I've never seen him show any interest in any frozen food but he picks at the rocks all day long.

[KPG007]

Originally Posted by Keri

Mine is also doing well I've never seen him show any interest in any frozen food but he picks at the rocks all day long.

I got two - a male and female, and they are the exact same way, picking all day long with no obvious interest in frozen food.

[cwatkins]

Mine still pick at the rocks all day, but I think it's more of a curiosity for him to eat the white stuff floating around. He doesn't actively swim into the water column to chase after frozen food though.

[ScubaSteve]

My guy eats only from the rocks and he's fat as a pig. Haven't even needed to worry about getting him a frozen. I think it's also because he likes to hang out far back in the rock work where all the pods are... unfortunately that means I don't get to see him all that often. For the first while I kept thinking he had perished but then he'd magically show up again.