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Hi Ron,

You need to seclude them in a smaller tank with some live rock and feed them little portions of mysis on a daily basis. They are restricted from eating during transit from the collectors so by the time they get to us they are pretty hungry. The trick is to get a bit of flow going so that the frozen mysis appear as if they are moving. You will start to see the mandarin try to hunt them down. If the flow is too much the mandarins can't keep up. So watch your flow. We seclude them so that they have all the time to pick at the mysis as they try to catch them. If there are other tankmates, they will invariably consumer all the mysis before the mandarins get to it.

We've had some success with training mandarins using this procedure; however we are trying to get some tank raised specimens that are already bred to eat frozen mysis. These are one of my favorite fish.

Thanks,

Paul

Originally Posted by Ron99

Any tips for training the Mandarins? Do you plan to maybe train some on frozen for sale in the shop?